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Meeting down south – two nights on the sleeper
Cheapest, most time effective and least stressful way to attend a meeting near Manchester in the south is using the Caledonian Sleeper. Travel while you sleep and no hotel needed. I go to sleep in the Highlands. And I wake up near Birmingham. I get off the sleeper at 0620 at Birmingham International. The only…
Far North – Manchester – Aberdeen
A trip to the south, or the northwest of England as it is known, and then to the northeast of Scotland. This got off to a bad start when the ScotRail app told me at nine in the evening, before I was due to go, that the 0650 train was cancelled as it had broken…
Bristol to the far north
The longest leg of the journey. The trains became a bit chaotic as demonstrated by this notice. The 2006 to Milton Keynes , which I had planned to take, was eventually cancelled. I caught the slower, local train to Birmingham International, but not before its platform was changed. The Birmingham International station is clean and…
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