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Once upon a time, maybe 30 or so years back, it was possible to travel from Wick to Penzance within 24 hours. Like many others, I have just received a mail from GWR announcing a new timetable from December. Curiosity killing this cat, and very little else to do out here in PNG at 10PM, I logged onto realtimetrains and did a search for December 16th.
My God! GWR have at last seen sense and have re-timed the last train to Penzance from Plymouth so that it now doesn’t leave five minutes before the XC service 1V66 ex Glasgow arrives in Plymouth but you now have three minutes to race around under Plymouth Station to catch that last service to Penzance!
I’ve checked and double checked and the journey would be as follows.
Wick depart 06:18 2H60
Inverness arrive 10:35
Inverness depart 10:46 1B22
Edinburgh arrive 14:27
Edinburgh depart 14:53 9M86
Birmingham New Street arrive 19:05
Birmingham New Street depart 19:12 1V66
Plymouth arrive 22:35
Plymouth depart 22:38 2C44
Penzance arrive 00:35
It was once possible to travel the other way from Penzance to Wick within 24 hours, incredibly only starting on a Sunday morning. Again that was 30 years or so ago. I’ve still to see if under new timetables if it now once again possible but I somehow doubt it.
Maybe in the New Year, I will pay a visit in the New Year back to the UK with my UK rail rover and travel the Wick-Penzance route, praying for good connections all the way to Plymouth.
My God! GWR have at last seen sense and have re-timed the last train to Penzance from Plymouth so that it now doesn’t leave five minutes before the XC service 1V66 ex Glasgow arrives in Plymouth but you now have three minutes to race around under Plymouth Station to catch that last service to Penzance!
I’ve checked and double checked and the journey would be as follows.
Wick depart 06:18 2H60
Inverness arrive 10:35
Inverness depart 10:46 1B22
Edinburgh arrive 14:27
Edinburgh depart 14:53 9M86
Birmingham New Street arrive 19:05
Birmingham New Street depart 19:12 1V66
Plymouth arrive 22:35
Plymouth depart 22:38 2C44
Penzance arrive 00:35
It was once possible to travel the other way from Penzance to Wick within 24 hours, incredibly only starting on a Sunday morning. Again that was 30 years or so ago. I’ve still to see if under new timetables if it now once again possible but I somehow doubt it.
Maybe in the New Year, I will pay a visit in the New Year back to the UK with my UK rail rover and travel the Wick-Penzance route, praying for good connections all the way to Plymouth.