Going the full ticket next week Edinburgh Waverley to London Euston via Birmingham New Street. I know it's a bit longer than the usual ECML but was cheap and I fancied the different scenery.
What things should I look out for on the journey?
Seriously, the Lune Gorge (between Penrith and Oxenholme) is gorgeous scenery. Sit on the left for that bit.
It's not a space telescope, it's on the ground.The Lovell Space Telescope is visible to the east on a clear day (and if you ever go via Wilmslow it would be right next to you).
It's not a space telescope, it's on the ground.
Highlight of your trip will undoubtedly be the Concrete Cows, which are on the Up side of the line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Cows
And enjoy the tilt. The upper Clyde valley will give you a first taste of it, around the Lamington viaduct which caused all the trouble last year.
It's not just about speed, it's about being able to fit more trains on the network.Don't see any point in HS2 after visiting Euston last week. It's fast enough.
It's not just about speed, it's about being able to fit more trains on the network.
At Carstairs, you creep round the indirect connecting lines, but can see the route of the old direct line you ought to be taking, now left to the sheep.
Just before Carstairs you will see, on the right, the innocuously named State Hospital. When it first opened it went by the rather more graphic title of State Institution for Mental Defectives.
It's a grim sight and some terrible things have happened there:It's a high security psychiatric hospital housing some of the UK's most dangerous folk. It's the same type of place as Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/nurse-breaks-30-year-silence-on-carstairs-965005Mone, whose motive was apparently revenge for being expelled from the school three years prior, was found to be insane and sent to the State Hospital for Scotland and Northern Ireland in Carstairs.
In 1976, Mone broke out of Carstairs Hospital with fellow inmate, Thomas McCulloch, murdering another inmate and a male nurse in the process and also killing a police office
Going the full ticket next week Edinburgh Waverley to London Euston via Birmingham New Street. I know it's a bit longer than the usual ECML but was cheap and I fancied the different scenery.
What things should I look out for on the journey?
When you pass Wembley it's time to start getting your things together.
Don't see any point in HS2 after visiting Euston last week. It's fast enough.
Roughly in order...
- The hills of southern Scotland
Shouldn't the first thing on the list be - "Edinburgh Castle and Princess St Gardens"!
Indeed. Sitting on the 11 coach 390 at 125mph swapping from left to right to left sides every few seconds is incredible (especially near Rugby). Seems like a lot more than +/-8 degrees.
Shouldn't the first thing on the list be - "Edinburgh Castle and Princess St Gardens"!