tankist
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repost. some might have seen this on the other board
Even without visit Miniatur Wunderland we had quite an exciting trip. 4 cities in 6 days, all rail aside one ferry crossing. the other ferry crossing is still rail since we boarded the ship by rolling into it on the train. Traveling across the pond with budget carried made sure we were late and had even less time for our trip. luckily we didn't miss any connections.
We landed in Gatwick, which is the less busy airport on the southern outskirts of London. sleeping the jet lag off a bit we woke up very early in the morning and went down to the station. let me tell you, Brits have very strange system of family discount for train travel - "4 for 2" . it still comes out to hefty 12 Pounds each one way.
down on the platform a neat DMU was standing
Alas our express train to London Victoria station was this ugly thing
but regardless it turned out to be very fast and very comfy inside. We also enjoyed the coffee and some bakery items sold on board.quite a thing that early in the morning
passing by some other equipment
we arrived at Victoria station
rest of the pictures:
Gatweek to London Album
London to Harwich
Per our friend who lives in deep London suburbia, the rail workers union decided weekends are optional and employees can not be required to work at those days. this caused quite an interesting thing - the express train London-Harwich was canceled and instead the jammed us together with another canceled train into your ordinary slow going, stopping everywhere commuter and we needed to change trains! this was a bummer, and a quite crowded one.
as consolation the friend (who we spent the day with) offered me to be happy that they are not on strike altogether. he also pointed me to the underground train ("Tube") timetable - "see these blue rectangles? yeah, those are all canceled lines. if you were planning to use these to get home you are SOL". there were about 5 of these , ouch.
i was to bummed to shoot the first one, and it was to crowded to do so anyways. then we kinda calmed down. here is the device that was pulling us
for part two we caught a ride on this East Anglia train
and i guess the gods of railroading decided to compensate us (or at least me
) for the inconvenience - the door to inactive driver cabin at the end of the train was left open!
with sun setting down we reached Harwich international, where we were to board the ferry "Hollandica" that would take us across the English channel.
if anyone cares this is world biggest superferry, with only 2 built. the other one is it's sister "Britanica" that serves same route but from the opposing end
rest of the pictures:
London to Harwich album
Even without visit Miniatur Wunderland we had quite an exciting trip. 4 cities in 6 days, all rail aside one ferry crossing. the other ferry crossing is still rail since we boarded the ship by rolling into it on the train. Traveling across the pond with budget carried made sure we were late and had even less time for our trip. luckily we didn't miss any connections.
We landed in Gatwick, which is the less busy airport on the southern outskirts of London. sleeping the jet lag off a bit we woke up very early in the morning and went down to the station. let me tell you, Brits have very strange system of family discount for train travel - "4 for 2" . it still comes out to hefty 12 Pounds each one way.
down on the platform a neat DMU was standing
Alas our express train to London Victoria station was this ugly thing
but regardless it turned out to be very fast and very comfy inside. We also enjoyed the coffee and some bakery items sold on board.quite a thing that early in the morning
passing by some other equipment
we arrived at Victoria station
rest of the pictures:
Gatweek to London Album
London to Harwich
Per our friend who lives in deep London suburbia, the rail workers union decided weekends are optional and employees can not be required to work at those days. this caused quite an interesting thing - the express train London-Harwich was canceled and instead the jammed us together with another canceled train into your ordinary slow going, stopping everywhere commuter and we needed to change trains! this was a bummer, and a quite crowded one.
as consolation the friend (who we spent the day with) offered me to be happy that they are not on strike altogether. he also pointed me to the underground train ("Tube") timetable - "see these blue rectangles? yeah, those are all canceled lines. if you were planning to use these to get home you are SOL". there were about 5 of these , ouch.
i was to bummed to shoot the first one, and it was to crowded to do so anyways. then we kinda calmed down. here is the device that was pulling us
for part two we caught a ride on this East Anglia train
and i guess the gods of railroading decided to compensate us (or at least me
) for the inconvenience - the door to inactive driver cabin at the end of the train was left open!
with sun setting down we reached Harwich international, where we were to board the ferry "Hollandica" that would take us across the English channel.
if anyone cares this is world biggest superferry, with only 2 built. the other one is it's sister "Britanica" that serves same route but from the opposing end
rest of the pictures:
London to Harwich album
