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Posted: 01 Mar 2015

Taken: 28 Feb 2015

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I made a very time consuming rail journey to Burton on Trent yesterday. What I could drive in 1½ hours took 3½ hours and required four separate trains! This 9 coach Pendelino, seen approaching across Stockport viaduct, whisked me off to Stoke from where I endured the thrills of trains filled with football supporters and stuffed with empty bottles, glasses, and general detritus. It was not an edifying sight.

Blue rubber octopus, , , have particularly liked this photo

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 Cold War Warrior
Cold War Warrior
Let the train take the strain! And they urge us to use public transport.
9 years ago.
 Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
That's discouraging. Here in the U.S. everyone assumes that UK/Europe has got the train as transportation worked out and attractive to use. From what I keep coming across in readings, it seems that's not the case at least in the UK.
9 years ago.
Roadscum has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
There was a time when we were quite good at railways but that was long ago. Since Thatcher we've been heading toward a model of private operation truly amazing in its convoluted inefficiency and immense expense.
9 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Roadscum
That was my understanding, that the Thatcher privatization had resulted in a very botched system with little coordination. I dropped plans to include Wales in a visit to Europe this Spring partly because it seemed that the only reasonable option was renting a car and I didn't want to deal with that.
9 years ago.
Roadscum has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
It's a shame you didn't consider travelling by coach. Modern services are generally comfortable and sometimes quite amazingly cheap if you book carefully. Oh well, maybe next time?
9 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Roadscum
I'll figure it out for next time. I have joint problems which make sitting in one place painful, so trains are much preferable since I can get up and move around.
9 years ago.
 GrahamH
GrahamH club
Good shot with predominant gray plus splashes of warm colours.
9 years ago.

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