Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
The number of lil' bits of card required to get 2 people and 2 bikes from Knaresborough to Newcastle and back for the first and last leg of this year's bike tour.
Bit daft!
Bit daft!
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Bikes on a train
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sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Who said bicycles were Environmentally friendly ?
****Enjoy your trip and stay safe 😎
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Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
Pedant alert - should that be 'and back to Knaresborough' otherwise you can discard the top piece of paper?
Fixed! 😄
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
That's the nice thing about folders, although probably no consolation to you on a tour. Enjoy!
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
In the sunny south east you can get a card to have all your journeys on. No paper, tap in and out as necessary.
Assume other train companies do similar.
Assume other train companies do similar.
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Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
With bicycles?
Normally I have my train tickets on the trainline app but the taking bicycles element requires printing out all the bits of card.
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
Local trains, non busy times, just turn up with your bike. Bit of a pain when the local station requires several steps to the platform.
But I suppose going further afield the rail companies might like the chance to charge.
My last big journey with a bike was TGV to Brussels. Used to have to hang them up in a special compartment.
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Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
Our journey involves 2 trains. One is Northern Rail to York which doesn't require booking bike spaces. Then York to Newcastle which is either East Coast Mainline or LNER which require you to book whatever the time of day. There are only 2 bike spaces. Trainline shows whether bike spaces are available but you have to phone up to book them.
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
What area of the SE are you in ?
I’ve not taken a bike on a train for 35 years ! But if it’s straightforward here (Norwich, Lowestoft, Ipswich area….) it could really broaden the perimeter of day rides open to me….
LNER is the East Coast Mainline operator, the other is TransPennine which would probably be cancelled anyway.
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Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
Rubbish isn't it. I spent Easter in Copenhagen enjoying their fabulous, clean, efficient integrated public transport system. Got back to Manchester Airport to find all trains onward to where we had left the car cancelled
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
I once did a ten day tour around Provence on a Brommie, and very nice it was too. I needed to get there on Eurostar and a TGV, and I also got a bus from Apt to Sault, hence using a folder.
Having said that, I also did the Hadrians Wall route on one. My advice would be - don't. It was a little hilly.
