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Previously on "Anyone used CrossCountry trains recently?"
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Do you think anyone ever books these kind of flights without noticing until they're en-route to Kazakhstan or somewhere?
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostNot sure but will check.
edit: best laugh I've had all day Cheap flights from Durham Tees Valley to Newquay at Skyscanner
If only there was a direct flight from Amsterdam to Newquay - it's that transfer from London City to Gatwick that really makes the route unworkable
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Originally posted by eek View PostHas the flight from Durham Tees to Newquay stopped?
edit: best laugh I've had all day http://www.skyscanner.net/flights/mm...mber-2012.html
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostI'm wanting WiFi for work use, and it's a 9-hour trip, so I think I probably would have to simply travel 1st. I normally work via RDP into client's local machine but my suspicion is this will be totally unworkable.
I'll probably have to make sure I have some work stored locally if I want to get billable hours out of it!
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I was delighted about the price of the trains on my last visit to the UK, which was last week actually. An excellent anti-pleb system. Just make the whole system so damn expensive that filthy oiks can't afford it.
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Has the flight from Durham Tees to Newquay stopped?
Also wouldn't a 3g mifi wireless hotspot be cheaper (and more reliable).
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I connected to it, but was put off when I realised how expensive it was.
Good luck with remote desktop.
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I'm wanting WiFi for work use, and it's a 9-hour trip, so I think I probably would have to simply travel 1st. I normally work via RDP into client's local machine but my suspicion is this will be totally unworkable.
I'll probably have to make sure I have some work stored locally if I want to get billable hours out of it!
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostLooking to travel all the way from Durham - Penzance (9 hour direct ) They mention they've rolled WiFi out to most/all of their long-distance trains, free in 1st-class, but I wondered if it actually works.
It's something like £90 each way STD, £230 each way 1st but if I could get a sensible amount of work done I could effectively pay off the ticket. I don't think I'd get much work done in cattle-class, and I would rather work in 1st than sit about in STD.
No free booze though on XC... outrageous.
Any recent travellers on their long-distance trains care to comment?
I use the wi-fi on FGW every morning.
It's free in 1st class but since don't have a 1st class ticket, I stand in the inter-carriage area between 1st and second performing a balancing act with lappy in one hand and venti latte in t'other, bumping into my fellow passengers and spilling a lot of coffee as I go
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostLooking to travel all the way from Durham - Penzance (9 hour direct ) They mention they've rolled WiFi out to most/all of their long-distance trains, free in 1st-class, but I wondered if it actually works.
It's something like £90 each way STD, £230 each way 1st but if I could get a sensible amount of work done I could effectively pay off the ticket. I don't think I'd get much work done in cattle-class, and I would rather work in 1st than sit about in STD.
No free booze though on XC... outrageous.
Any recent travellers on their long-distance trains care to comment?
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostLooking to travel all the way from Durham - Penzance (9 hour direct ) They mention they've rolled WiFi out to most/all of their long-distance trains, free in 1st-class, but I wondered if it actually works.
It's something like £90 each way STD, £230 each way 1st but if I could get a sensible amount of work done I could effectively pay off the ticket. I don't think I'd get much work done in cattle-class, and I would rather work in 1st than sit about in STD.
No free booze though on XC... outrageous.
Any recent travellers on their long-distance trains care to comment?
I think others have suggested sitting near first...
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Anyone used CrossCountry trains recently?
Looking to travel all the way from Durham - Penzance (9 hour direct ) They mention they've rolled WiFi out to most/all of their long-distance trains, free in 1st-class, but I wondered if it actually works.
It's something like £90 each way STD, £230 each way 1st but if I could get a sensible amount of work done I could effectively pay off the ticket. I don't think I'd get much work done in cattle-class, and I would rather work in 1st than sit about in STD.
No free booze though on XC... outrageous.
Any recent travellers on their long-distance trains care to comment?Tags: None
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