Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It definitely isn't a train?

[SueEllen]

I kept hearing this story today of how hard it is to get up to the North of the UK in our train infrastructure.

Only takes 11 hours to go from London to Edinburgh.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...nburgh-odyssey

....when the comedian James Nokise found himself on an 11-hour odyssey between London and Edinburgh on Monday night, he live-tweeted the misery.
Twitter may have gone out of fashion since Musk’s meddling, but it remains the perfect medium for a short story full of intrigue that takes in 11th-hour cancellations, hundreds of passengers competing for taxis, and a directionally challenged cab driver jacked up on Red Bull apparently driving from Preston to Edinburgh for the first time.

Nokise took the 4.40pm Avanti West Coast service from London Euston to Edinburgh, expecting to arrive at 22.21. All was well until the Pendolino was approaching Preston and Nokise received an email telling him his train – the one he was sitting in – had been cancelled. And so began his masterclass in social media storytelling...

[Mordac]

Thankfully there are plenty of flights between the south-east of England and the major destinations in Scotland, which are both quicker and cheaper than the train. You would have to be devoid of any brain activity to willingly travel to Scotland by train.

[ladymuck]

Thankfully there are plenty of flights between the south-east of England and the major destinations in Scotland, which are both quicker and cheaper than the train. You would have to be devoid of any brain activity to willingly travel to Scotland by train.

Agreed! I've only taken the train to Glasgow once, when a flight was prohibitively expensive and more than the rail fare, and fortunately it run to schedule.