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22nd October 2010, 19:11
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Rolling Stock Engineer
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Stobart rail vs truck
Anyone watching the Eddie stobard program on Five?
They're racing a truck and a train from Rugby to Mossend. |
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22nd October 2010, 19:20
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The cry was No Surrender
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I take it it's not on literally ATM, quite interesting NTL.
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22nd October 2010, 19:22
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22nd October 2010, 19:25
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1255 off Carlisle, 1 hour plus for a driver change?
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22nd October 2010, 19:27
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I'm guessing the truck is going to win given the nature of the show?! |
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22nd October 2010, 19:28
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Been watching the whole series. Nice insight into the Stobart brand.
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22nd October 2010, 19:28
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The cry was No Surrender
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Well, they do have interests in both, not just road.
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22nd October 2010, 19:32
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It's actually a friend of mine's Brother driving the truck
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22nd October 2010, 19:34
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22nd October 2010, 19:39
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I have no idea. Didn't ask.
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22nd October 2010, 20:03
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Who won, then?
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22nd October 2010, 20:04
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truck won by slightly under 15 minutes
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22nd October 2010, 20:04
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See homepage for mileage.
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The Truck by about 15 minutes
EDIT: imagination you beat me too it. EDIT 2: As the train has to unload at Mossend and then detrain the containers onto lorries, the first lorry made it to the Tesco Depot 15ish mins behind the direct lorry. I aggree S19, I also have been watching the program every week (apart from the two I watched on 5's YouTube channel ), this is a very interesting insight to the life 'behind the scenes'. Has anyone an idea on how long the series is?
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22nd October 2010, 20:07
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Stobbart train stops in Carlisle yard for around 2 hours for no apparent reason. It'd be close otherwise...
 also, train would win by the time the 26th truck rolled into mossend euroterminal Last edited by Soft Mick; 22nd October 2010 at 20:09. Reason: Additional remark |
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22nd October 2010, 20:17
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Had they left at the same time, the lorry would have arrived at least 90 minutes ahead of the train However, the train had two changes of crew, losing it about 2 hours The net result (journey time only) was the train arrived ahead by about 30 minutes Typical though road still wins Equally, scary, the driver had ONE 45 minute break between Rugby and Livingston |
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