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[Acme Thunderer]

Been a couple of times to Barrow on Client business.

Tried the fly to Manchester and drive the rest. As someone suggested earlier its not worth the hassle, by the time you have got out the airport, got on the bus to the hire car place, collected your car you may well have just driven all the way.

I have made the full journey by road took me about 6 hours, but that was on a Sunday and billable.

Used the company plane straight to Walney Island, but as its only an 8 seater so getting a place is difficult enough with a Client Business need, let alone a contractor wanting to go up. Also it is quite common to be bumped off if a senior manger wants the seat.

[FrontEnder]

Unless you want to develop a chronic alcohol problem, my advice would be to bring lots of books.

[LondonManc]

Unless you want t odevelop a chronic alcohol problem, my advice would be to bring lots of books.

No internet?

[FrontEnder]

No internet?

It's dial up only once you get past Ulverston.

[LondonManc]

It's dial up only once you get past Ulverston.

Makes sense; the M6 is still cobbled past Preston.

[northernladuk]

Makes sense; the M6 is still cobbled past Preston.

To be fair it's proper f***ked all the way south of there at the moment as well.

[LondonManc]

To be fair it's proper f***ked all the way south of there at the moment as well.

Yep, good fun in the early hours of Monday morning driving down. M40's buggered up around J9 as well now.

[v8gaz]

I moved from Barrow to East London at the age of 10, bit of a culture shock

Thats odd, I heard there were lots of barrow boys in the east end?

[Elliegirl]

That was 20 years ago; with the 50 zones on the M6, the level of traffic on the M6. Even using the toll road, you're just missing the M6/M5 bottleneck and meeting the rest of the traffic at Cannock.

Depends whereabouts you are in London and what time you're travelling but it could easily go over 8 hours.

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That's me laughing hysterically at the four hour point, just before I'm hauled out of the vehicle by police. I've had a licence since the age of 19. I love driving. Actual driving. Not sitting in traffic. I've not owned a car for five years because it's not worth it in London. 8 hour drive? nope.

[LondonManc]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
That's me laughing hysterically at the four hour point, just before I'm hauled out of the vehicle by police. I've had a licence since the age of 19. I love driving. Actual driving. Not sitting in traffic. I've not owned a car for five years because it's not worth it in London. 8 hour drive? nope.

I've got a 206 mile drive to London. Coming down, I can do it in less than 3.5 hours, setting off before 4am and arriving just after 7am.

Setting off on a Friday at 2pm, I'm "happy" to get home by 7-7:30 and that's with me knowing the back routes of Cheshire that I can use to get up to the M62/M60. You'd then have another x hours to go to get up to Barrow.

Friday southbound on the M6 looks carp too - Flight to MCR then train to Barrow looks safest. That said, it's annoying that the only London to Manchester flights are from Heathrow.