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Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?
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#112There is something very romantic about this - obviously there are other ways to make the trips, but somehow is feels more free and a bit furtive, like if you had to sneak out of town for some reason it's a good thing to know. I'm in Canada and I can't think of any meaningful distance you could cover in this way. Maybe Toronto-Barrie. Our cities are all so far apart, they are mostly isolated hubs and spokes. Curious i…
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Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?
#113Note: the UK has long-distance bus services which could get you a lot further. The challenge here was to use only local bus services (defined as those on which people over 65 get to travel for free).
> long-distance bus service
The National Express! I was too poor to afford the train so would use the busses. Often the bus was faster than the trains for London - Edinburgh, usually for weather related outages. The train is way nicer.
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#114“How far can I go on just local trains” is a fun game to play here in Japan. I’m not sure my body could handle the bus version here, unless the roads of England are very straight and smooth!
I did this by accident from Tokyo to Kyoto. My idea was that I didn't want to take a bullet train to Kyoto and what I wanted was a slower train with a restaurant and a bar car. So without speaking Japanese I tried to buy that ticket, and the train office were slightly surprised then they did the ticket processing to make it happen. Turns out what I got was a local train all the way to kyoto. It fucking sucked. It was…
This is hilarious - a write up with photos would beat the London Bus journey. Well done and commiserations.
Travel in foreign lands seems to regularly break down at ticket offices.
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The Megabus will take you from London Victoria to Prague in 19hrs https://bustickets.distribusion.com/connections/results?depa...
Interesting that the Prague journey is 7 hours less than Berlin which is closer. Is this just because the number of stops is greater on the Berlin route or something else?
Possibly, though the location of the stops might matter more (ie the Berlin route might be a greater mileage but less direct). The change over likely doesn’t help either.
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That’s impressive. AFAIK in the US, the only two major cities you can get between on regional trains (i.e., without using the national train operator Amtrak) is New York and Philadelphia (New Jersey Transit from NY to Trenton, then SEPTA from Trenton to Philly). NYC and Philly are so close that they could almost be considered the same metropolitan area, so it’s not very impressive! Edit: also Baltimore and Washington…
LA to San Diego is another one. Metrolink -> Coaster at Oceanside.
Neat! I wouldn’t have expected this to be possible anywhere in the Southwest. There’s no connection — not even Amtrak, between Phoenix (where I’m from) and Tucson. I didn’t even know San Diego had regional trains.
Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?
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If i was trying to sneek put of london i'd be more interested in how far i could go in 24h without being spotted on a camera. Canada would probably win that race.
Could you go 10 feet? I think the best thing to do to sneak out would be to put on a few of the correct type of items to make facial recognition difficult, and have enough options you could pop into a shop and discreetly change outer layers while exiting different doors (where possible) to slow the tracking down.
Since they all have cameras, you couldn't go on a local bus or train without wearing sufficient clothes to obscure your face. For example, a hoodie + cap.
Cycling while avoiding roads with lots of shops is probably the best bet. In practise, private cameras aren't an issue except in very unusual cases. (E.g. with runaway children there might be a request for shop owners in a specific area to check their recordings.)
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This was done with local buses, not intercity buses. You could get much, much further using coach routes.
Not really. They are buses with multiple stops rather than direct city-to-city coach connections but the X buses (eg X6, X7 from the route in the OP) are intercity routes.
The long distance coach to e.g. Leicester starts at the same place, but takes the motorway and doesn't stop until it gets to Leicester. Maybe it will then continue to another city, e.g. Manchester. (I've done this trip.)
The OP took intercity / intertown "local" buses, but they stop at many larger villages and towns along the route. This is much slower, as it usually involves leaving the large road and winding through narrow roads to the centre.
Example map for the Leicester-Loughborough-Derby bus, showing a fair number of stops, where a coach service might make 1 stop between Leicester and Derby: https://www.trentbarton.co.uk/services/skylinkderby/maps-and...
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Yup. While not an official definition the following site has a decent definition of the differences https://www.wyattcoaches.co.uk/news/what-is-the-difference-b...
That’s actually a pretty good explanation. My Concise Oxford dictionary app has this: coach(1) /kəʊtʃ / ▸ n. 1 Brit. a comfortably equipped single-decker bus used for longer journeys. 2 a railway carriage. 3 (also coach class) N. Amer. economy-class seating in an aircraft or train. 4 a closed horse-drawn carriage. ▸ v. travel or convey by coach. – DERIVATIVES coachload n. – ORIGIN C16: from Fr. coche, from Hungarian…
Single-decker seems unnecessarily restrictive.
This certainly counts as a coach in the UK: https://greysofely.co.uk/85-seat-luxury-double-decker -- it's the kind of thing you see bands use when touring.
Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?
#120Note: the UK has long-distance bus services which could get you a lot further. The challenge here was to use only local bus services (defined as those on which people over 65 get to travel for free).
> long-distance bus service The National Express! I was too poor to afford the train so would use the busses. Often the bus was faster than the trains for London - Edinburgh, usually for weather related outages. The train is way nicer.
The train (London King's Cross to Edinburgh) is about 4½ hours, but the fastest National Express coach is over 9 hours.
You were incredibly unlucky if the time you took the train had a 5 hour delay.