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« on: May 24, 2009, 00:20:41 » |
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on a normal network - ie not one run by a bus (stourbridge i'm thinking here)
I ask because the other night- I kid you not, I saw a group of able bodied yoofs asking when the next train to foregate street was). A couple of them were over endowed in the girth area (and i'm not svelt by any means so I can say that) - but even so - FFS▸
By the time the next train arrives at shrub to get to foregate, they could have walked it! I have done many times when the truck is at shrub and I come into foregate!
I did feel like saying - walk you idle goits - takes about ten minutes. But it was late and I couldnt be arsed (which is unlike me)
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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2009, 00:22:59 » |
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50 chains
Exeter Central and St James Park are 38 chains.
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« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2009, 09:40:37 » |
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I was was at Shrub Hill once when a couple asked when the next train to New Street was. Platform staff went into office and got out a map and showed them the way to walk to Foregate Street.
There cant be many stations where when you ask the next train time question you are told to walk to the next station as it is quicker.!
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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2009, 10:54:29 » |
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Exeter Central and St James Park are 38 chains.
That's not even in the top 20... | From | To | Chains | | Ty Glas | Birchgrove | 17 | | City Thameslink | Blackfriars | 20 | | Whitchurch | Coryton | 23 | | Rhiwbina | Whitchurch | 25 | | Newhaven Town | Harbour | 26 | | Barbican | Farringdon | 27 | | Alexandra Parade | Duke Street | 27 | | Manchester Oxford Road | Deansgate | 29 | | Walton | Orrell Park | 30 | | Belle Vue | Ryder Brow | 30 | | Dumbarton Central | Dalreoch | 30 | | Maesteg | Maesteg Ewenny Rd | 31 | | Wandsworth Rd | Clapham High St | 31 | | Devonport | Devonport Dockyard | 32 | | Bootle Oriel Road | New Strand | 33 | | Birkenhead Central | Green Lane | 34 | | Manor Road | Hoylake | 34 | | Moorgate | Barbican | 35 | | Penarth | Dingle Road | 35 | | Fairwater | Waun-Gron Park | 35 | | Sundridge Park | Bromley North | 35 |
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« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2009, 10:58:54 » |
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Andfourof them are misery rail which I dont regard as a proper railway
A few others are london undergrounds - which again I dont regard as a proper railway
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« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2009, 11:51:10 » |
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LYMPSTONE VILLAGE-lympstone commando? or is this cheating
They are 81 chains miles apart. Exton to Lympstone Commando is much closer (35 chains) |
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« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2009, 12:01:22 » |
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Shortest on the DLR▸ in London WAS Canary Wharf to Heron Quays before Heron Quays relocation, from CW▸ Doors Closed to HQ▸ Doors Open it was only 45 seconds.
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« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2009, 17:11:55 » |
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Falmouth Town - Falmouth Docks is pretty close,
Lelant to Lelant Saltings,
Keyham to Dockyard,
Spring road - Hall Green?
Snow hill - Moor Street?
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« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2009, 17:28:26 » |
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The two that I can recall hearing past comment about are ...
Culrain to Invershin ...
Leicester Square to Covent Garden
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« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2009, 18:56:31 » |
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Embankment to Charing Cross - you can see one from the other!
The Stourbridge branch is was the shortest branch line . But as Mookie says - now run by a bus. (albeit on rails)
The three closest stations in the UK▸ are 3 DLR▸ stations (the ones either side of, and Canary Wharf). A matter of yards between the platforms!
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« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2009, 19:15:44 » |
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Embankment to Charing Cross - you can see one from the other!
FACT it's less steps to walk on the street level between the two, than it is to walk down to the platform at either station and walk up to street level at the other. |
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« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2009, 20:12:36 » |
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FACT it's less steps to walk on the street level between the two, than it is to walk down to the platform at either station and walk up to street level at the other.
Not when the alternative entrance to Charing Cross station beside the Playhouse Theatre is open, it isn't. |
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« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2009, 22:41:14 » |
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And Wigan Wallgate that is on the opposite side of the road to Wigan North Western!
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« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2009, 22:47:29 » |
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As I started the debate can we leave out any city undergrounds - London underground and liverpool misery raiil as an example - they are not to me Rail transport
Its funny - i'll happily try to go by rail anywhere but if I'm in scouseland visiting mum, I'll drive into the city centre (even during the recent traffic crud) even though we're a stone's throw from aintree station
I spent 6 years using misery rail going to school - I do not want to revisit EVER
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