Trivia: Locations that are significantly quicker to travel between by train than other methods

[Howardh]

True,although to be a pedant,you had to use other modes of transport,including another type of the mode of transport you're directly comparing the competing mode with. In short, you have to take the train to catch the plane. It proves planes only work because other modes are there to support them.

To go on my holidays I need, in this order, bus, train, pod* plane, bus, ferry, bus! It's fun but leaves a higher percentage of things that can go wrong on the way!
*If flying from Gatwick!

 

[Comstock]

Thanks - of course! CBD is an abbreviation I was only previously aware of in terms of a cannabis derivative...

....well it made me chuckle, which is something I suppose

 

[InOban]

? City Business District?

 

[Bungle158]

Reading to Reading West. Timetabled 3 mins by train. Google say a 14 min walk. Most if not all buses serving Reading West leave from the town centre, itself at least a 4 to 5 minute schlepp away.

 

[Scotty]

? City Business District?

Central Business District. Not just limited to cities...

 

[AlastairFraser]

To go on my holidays I need, in this order, bus, train, pod* plane, bus, ferry, bus! It's fun but leaves a higher percentage of things that can go wrong on the way!
*If flying from Gatwick!

Exactly,just proves my point.

 

[AlastairFraser]

Reading to Reading West. Timetabled 3 mins by train. Google say a 14 min walk. Most if not all buses serving Reading West leave from the town centre, itself at least a 4 to 5 minute schlepp away.

A lot more than a 14 minutes walk, Google seems to have a standardised formula based on distance only for walking times. For the quickest route( I don't know how well you know Reading), you'd have to walk up Greyfriars Rd and cross the IDR at Chatham St bridge (kind of a smaller-scale urban motorway for other forum members), then turn the corner onto Oxford Road and walk towards Reading West. Minimum 20 minutes. With the bus,as you say, it's probably a bit quicker,10 minutes in total I'd estimate,but nowhere near as fast as the train.

 

[AlastairFraser]

....well it made me chuckle, which is something I suppose

The City of London would be a lot more interesting if it was the centre of CBD

 

[frodshamfella]

Liverpool to London

 

[randyrippley]

Which doesn't beat Arnside to Grange-Over-Sands!
(5mins - 4h:46; 57x)
Although I understand that it is sometimes possible to actually walk across the bay

Please don't try it without a guide.......
its a nice walk, but one you have a good chance of never finishing if you go wrong. The Bay is dangerous...........if crossing from Arnside you have to go several several miles into the bay around areas of quicksand before the ground is firm enough and the River Kent shallow enough to cross.
Even walking between the two stations across the sands is likely to take three hours at least

 

[K.o.R]

How about Birkenhead Central to Liverpool James Street? I don't think pedestrians can use the Mersey tunnel so it's the slow tourist ferry (or possibly a bus).

 

[Mogz]

Reading to Banbury.

45 mins by train.

1h 30m by car.

 

[AlastairFraser]

Reading to Banbury.

45 mins by train.

1h 30m by car.

Which way is that to Oxford? A4/M4/A34 or A4074? If it's A4074, then the traffic will significantly delay you until you are out of Reading and perhaps some agricultural traffic closer to Wallingford. It's probably more likely to be 3x the train timing.

 

[sw1ller]

Bangor to Pwllheli.......... hang on, think I’ve got this the wrong way round.

 

[DavidGrain]

Bangor to Pwllheli.......... hang on, think I’ve got this the wrong way round.

Yes Bangor to Pwllheli by train would be some journey!

 

[Glenn1969]

Sowerby Bridge to Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge must be a contender

9 mins by train

No direct bus and 18 mins by car with no traffic to Hebden Bridge

 

[unlevel42]

Sheffield to Manchester

 

[RealTrains07]

Allens West and Eaglescliffe on the Saltburn to Darlington line are 2 minutes apart by train - only around 800 meters - it would be even quicker if it wasn't for the low line speed across Eaglescliffe South Junction. To walk between these two stations, though, would take 22 minutes according to Google Maps - that's a 11x reduction in journey time by train than by the next quickest method of transport.

Does anyone have any similar examples?

Stone to stoke on trent. Average 6 to 8 mins while travelling by bus can take up to 56 minutes and car 17 minutes

 

[Chris M]

Rotherhithe to Wapping - 1 minute by train, 40 mins on foot via the Rotherhithe tunnel

This beats @headshot119's submission of 31x faster than walking with 40x faster!

If restricted to foot vs train then North Greenwich to Canning Town can beat that - 2 minutes by train but an hour and 51 minutes (111 minutes) walking via the Greenwich foot tunnel - 55× faster.

vs a car though the time savings are not that impressive, although train is still faster: Rotherhithe to Wapping - 12 minutes, North Greenwich to Canning Town - 11 minutes. These obviously assume no traffic jams though.

 

[duncanp]

Any journey that starts or finishes at Berney Arms, assuming the station is ever reopened of course.

Ashford International to Calais Frethun or Lille Europe must also be a candidate.

 

[UDC]

As an overseas example, Geneva Airport and Geneva Centre-7 minutes by train. 14 minutes by car.

 

[vicbury]

Bristol to Taunton. 30 minutes by train; ranging between 1 hour to 1 hour 40 minutes by car during peak times. So over three times quicker by train!