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Yes, especially when loaded with camping kit!
225: Lift bike into DVT; lean against rack; secure in place with the provided adjustable strap; job done. :D
Azuma: Lift bike into train; remove front panniers and chuck into space by far door; remove saddlebag and chuck into space by far door...
Thanks, I'd managed to block out that memory! :D
Lancaster to Leeds in a 3-car Cl 144 in February, with snow on the ground! It was a sub-zero 75mph wind tunnel below the seats. I wound up kicking my shoes off and tucking my feet underneath me on the seat. It took until Gargrave for the feeling...
As far as long distances on a Pacer are concerned, I have done: Lancaster-Leeds via Bentham (Cl. 144), Liverpool Lime Street-York (Cl. 142) and Huddersfield-Prestatyn and back (Cl. 142).
I think the worst one as far as the riding characteristics went was the Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester...
Thanks for that info, we must have missed them when we were in Athens/Thessaloniki. (same trip, out through Italy and ferry to Patras, back through Yugoslavia!)
Ouch! Two gauge changes? o_O
In the early 1980s there were through sleeping cars from Moscow to Rome. I'm not sure of the eastern end of the route, but they ran via Yugoslavia (I saw them in Ljubljana) and on to Rome via Trieste and Venice.
I have been to both of York's (current) twin cities: Münster (Westfalen) in Germany on the school exchange (3 times) and Dijon in France visiting my brother's exchange partner.
Münster has a public transport system based around buses, just as York does, but the Münster bus system just seemed...
Aye, we left Calais Maritime round about mid/late afternoon, loco change at Calais Ville (diesel->electric) reversal at Lille Flandres, into Basel SNCF at sparrow fart, Innsbruck coach shunted round every platform in Basel SNCF and SBB (some of them twice!) as the inward train was shunted about...
Checking back through the train formations on the excellent vagonweb.cz site for 1990/91 (picked at random) shows a through Paris Est to Innsbruck night train with sleeping cars and couchettes. Train numbers D468/D469 in that timetable. There were certainly through couchettes from Calais...
I have just seen an ESTonian registration plate on a car parked in Tesco's car park at the Askham Bar Store in York, as you do! I didn't take a photo as it was dark!
According to an article on the York Mix website (News, etc. from around the York area), it has been withdrawn by Network Rail to allow them to consider the accessibility of the proposed footbridge: