Thursday Night Ride to the Coast - 17th April to Felpham
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Wobblers
Euthermic
- Location
- Minkowski Space
Errr ... I sent you an email and everything?
kimble
Veteran
They, along with Virgin, have an abundance of trains to and from That London. It's getting back from Bognor that appears to be an issue...
mmmmartin
Random geezer
@kimble maybe go for a train arriving into London after 10.55 because you will be travelling on a Friday and perhaps the website doesn't realise it is Good Friday rather than a normal working day?
I'm getting £11 ish with an Old Farts Card so Groupsave Magic should get you about £9 ish with three chums.....
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Oh dear. Is there a problem with bank hol services? Should I be paying heed to this as well?
I was planning to consult my legs on arrival and either skip breakfast and go direct to Bognor station or else eat and then cycle in a vaguely North Easterly direction until my legs give out and get on a train London-wards (and accept that I will have to pay full whack as a result of my lack of planning).
Am I being a bit too cavalier about this?
CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
- Location
- Therivermeadowatthepileofstones
JoeyB
Go on, tilt your head!
- Location
- Fareham, Hampshire
I wonder if I can get a hall pass for this ride....A day after my wedding anniversary.
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
I don't see why not, I mean what else could she want ya married her didn't ya, that should be enough.
mmmmartin
Random geezer
Not at all, @Dogtrousers - it seems to me that is what pretty much everyone else does and, in fact, what I shall probably do
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I will rest easy. Thanks.
I was just a bit alarmed by what @kimble was saying, and thought maybe I'd missed an Olympics-style fatwah on bikes on trains on the 18th or something. (Or perhaps there has been one - but it just applies to recumbents
).I have my first imperial century of the year planned the weekend before, so I will be supremely fit and confident ... maybe ... or maybe not.
mmmmartin
Random geezer
Email sent, wound healing, albeit slowly, and if there is any chance of damaging it thereby theatening my chances of riding Le Recce I shall have to rethink. But all going well now.
Edit
Train tickets to Lunnun and back also bought. Groupsave back from Bognor innit.
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kimble
Veteran
I will rest easy. Thanks.
I was just a bit alarmed by what @kimble was saying, and thought maybe I'd missed an Olympics-style fatwah on bikes on trains on the 18th or something. (Or perhaps there has been one - but it just applies to recumbents
Well, I'm getting a popup about engineering works and none of the obvious direct Victoria trains will allow me to make a seat/bike reservation. Of course this might all be an artefact of the database, and the trains will be perfectly fine, but it's hardly confidence inspiring.
Winging it doesn't work well with pre-booked onward connections north of Watford.
Can't see any disruptions flagged on the National Rail Enquiries website. Direct train from Bognor to VIC at nn.56 and nn.30 which is 9 minutes slower than a two change (Barnham and Horsham). I'm 95% sure that the change at Horsham is a virtual one, with coaches being added rather than a delicate leap and dash along the platform. Infact doing the change looks fairly pointless as you end up on a train that started in Bognor. Such complication may have been why George V said what he did.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Ah, I understand your concern now. I will continue to wing it. Best of luck with the various rail websites.
