Leeds - Scarborough 7 September 2019
- Thread starter nickyboy
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StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
Drowning in orange cardboard…
Just a few there!
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Is that some kind of clever Welsh split ticketing scam, designed to save you enough cash to help prop up the failing Cymraeg NHS?
It's not so much a scam as the only way I was able to get a bike reservation for all legs of the journey without paying £152 one-way.
Kestevan
Last of the Summer Winos
- Location
- Holmfirth.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
If anybody fancies joining in but not ending up in Scarborough, I still intend to ride as far as the cafe stop at Norton and after that say my farewells and ride back to Garforth for a train home. (It is only a couple of stops outside Leeds but it saves having to ride back into the city.) You would be welcome to join me for that. If you need a gpx file for my return route, let me know.
PS I am not trying to poach riders from Scarborough, rather trying to encourage people who don't fancy ending up there with a long journey back!
PS I am not trying to poach riders from Scarborough, rather trying to encourage people who don't fancy ending up there with a long journey back!
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
- Location
- The real Northern Powerhouse
If anybody fancies joining in but not ending up in Scarborough, I still intend to ride as far as the cafe stop at Norton and after that say my farewells and ride back to Garforth for a train home. (It is only a couple of stops outside Leeds but it saves having to ride back into the city.) You would be welcome to join me for that. If you need a gpx file for my return route, let me know.
PS I am not trying to poach riders from Scarborough, rather trying to encourage people who don't fancy ending up there with a long journey back!
Hi @ColinJ - presumably you're aware that there are no longer direct trains from Garforth to Tod? Due to the wonderful way Northern operate things, you now need to change at Leeds.
There is an hourly service from Church Fenton to Hebden Bridge though (which doesn't stop at Garforth...) in case you fancy adding a few extra miles on the end?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Yes, I thought I'd be changing at Leeds, but thanks anyway. I'll already be doing a couple of miles above my target distance so I won't feel like adding any more. The A646 loses whatever charm it had once you have ridden it a few hundred times!Hi @ColinJ - presumably you're aware that there are no longer direct trains from Garforth to Tod? Due to the wonderful way Northern operate things, you now need to change at Leeds.
There is an hourly service from Church Fenton to Hebden Bridge though (which doesn't stop at Garforth...) in case you fancy adding a few extra miles on the end?
At least there are plenty of trains from Garforth to Leeds and Leeds to Tod on a Saturday evening so I shouldn't have to wait too long. As long as the drunks behave, I'll be okay!
I must check my return route. I knocked it up with the help of cycle.travel and I can't remember all the details of it. I'm fairly sure that I DID check the cyclepaths through York etc. (Some of it is the outward leg in reverse, but most of it is NOT.)
Utter lunacy!
I've only got 5 tickets in comparison for the single leg from Scarborough to York. Don't you just love this modern, integrated, technology enabled world we live in.
Make sure you keep them in a plastic bag in case it rains!
DiddlyDodds
Random Resident
- Location
- Littleborough
Are we sticking with the previous flat route Nickyboy
Kestevan
Last of the Summer Winos
- Location
- Holmfirth.
I'd suggest avoiding last year's @I like Skol variation.... Whilst "interesting" I've still not got my shoes clean.
Adam4868
Guru
Saw this and thought of you @theclaud
https://www.bringbackbritishrail.org/product/rail-card-wallet/
