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Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Its not more than now.1hr 10 stafford to london last week

The Train Line says -

The average journey time between London Euston and Stafford is 1 hour 47 minutes. The fastest journey time is 47 minutes. On an average weekday, there are 45 trains per day travelling from London Euston to Stafford. The journey time may be longer on weekends and holidays.




47 minutes! Why bother with HS2?


A flick through tomorrow's trains found 1 hour 17 minutes as the shortest claimed journey time.


I think Stafford <-> Euston is 122 miles on the current rails.

If so, then...

1hour 47 minutes = 68mph average.

1 hour 17 minutes = 95 mph average.


1 hour 10 minutes = 105mph average.

47 minutes = 156mph, which seems rather implausible to me.


Presumably that should be 77 minutes, not 47..?
 

Goldilox

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The Train Line says -

The average journey time between London Euston and Stafford is 1 hour 47 minutes. The fastest journey time is 47 minutes. On an average weekday, there are 45 trains per day travelling from London Euston to Stafford. The journey time may be longer on weekends and holidays.




47 minutes! Why bother with HS2?


A flick through tomorrow's trains found 1 hour 17 minutes as the shortest claimed journey time.


I think Stafford <-> Euston is 122 miles on the current rails.

If so, then...

1hour 47 minutes = 68mph average.

1 hour 17 minutes = 95 mph average.


1 hour 10 minutes = 105mph average.

47 minutes = 156mph, which seems rather implausible to me.


Presumably that should be 77 minutes, not 47..?

I seem to remember that at one time there was a direct train at 6am-ish that did it in an hour and five, although I never caught it. Shaving ten minutes off the journey time never being sufficient incentive for me to deal with the early start and then having to kill several hours in London before things opened.

I always assumed the point was really to move rolling stock to where it was needed and the single stop in Stafford was some kind of timetabling quirk.
 

Tilly

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I seem to remember that at one time there was a direct train at 6am-ish that did it in an hour and five, although I never caught it. Shaving ten minutes off the journey time never being sufficient incentive for me to deal with the early start and then having to kill several hours in London before things opened.

I always assumed the point was really to move rolling stock to where it was needed and the single stop in Stafford was some kind of timetabling quirk.


I miss the magic midnight train to Holyhead
 

The Hawk

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I seem to remember that at one time there was a direct train at 6am-ish that did it in an hour and five, although I never caught it. Shaving ten minutes off the journey time never being sufficient incentive for me to deal with the early start and then having to kill several hours in London before things opened.

I always assumed the point was really to move rolling stock to where it was needed and the single stop in Stafford was some kind of timetabling quirk.
The fastest ever services between Euston and Stafford have been around 75 minutes. Occasionally, one will get in slightly early, but 72 or 73 is about the best you will ever get.

That will all change in a few years, with HS2, when around 20 minutes will be shaved off the journey time.

Incidentally, before high speed rail arrived in the south east, with the Channel Tunnel services, the fastest timetabled services have typically been the Stafford to London Euston ones. Currently, the highest station to station average speed of any rail service (except for those running between Stratford and Ashford over High Speed 1) in the UK is the 18:47 from Liverpool to London Euston which between Stafford (departs 19:42) and Watford Junction (arrives 20:45), averages 110.6 mph.
 

Withnail

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HS2 project 'still on track'

THE Government has insisted it's still committed to the £158 bn HS2 project, despite announcing a 12-month delay, pointing out it had recently begun the compulsory purchase of large amounts of land with long grass.

"Once we have acquired sufficient quantities of long grass," said a spokesman for the Department of Transport "then we can commence phase two, which will involve kicking HS2 into it. We're still confident HS2 will cut the journey time between London and the North, provided you own a car and have a wee before you leave home, so you don't have to stop at the motorway services."

c/o Private Eye 1478
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
HS2 project 'still on track'

THE Government has insisted it's still committed to the £158 bn HS2 project, despite announcing a 12-month delay, pointing out it had recently begun the compulsory purchase of large amounts of land with long grass.

"Once we have acquired sufficient quantities of long grass," said a spokesman for the Department of Transport "then we can commence phase two, which will involve kicking HS2 into it. We're still confident HS2 will cut the journey time between London and the North, provided you own a car and have a wee before you leave home, so you don't have to stop at the motorway services."

c/o Private Eye 1478
In the early days of the M40, there used to be a big sign at the southern end of it, proudly proclaiming "No services on M40". This was before the days when we photographed everything, but I still regret not capturing the scene where a chap had pulled up on the hard shoulder* and was pissing on the post that held the sign up.



* How long before we have to start explaining to kids what a hard shoulder was?
 

LukeJM

A few posts under my belt
Anyone got a clue when work on site is likely to commence?

Also does anyone know who owns the area of undeveloped land opposite behind the cinema?
 

markpa12003

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Anyone got a clue when work on site is likely to commence?

Also does anyone know who owns the area of undeveloped land opposite behind the cinema?

You can find out by going on the land registry website and paying £3. I'd love to see that area of land built on. It serves no purpose and could be improved with development.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Anyone got a clue when work on site is likely to commence?

Also does anyone know who owns the area of undeveloped land opposite behind the cinema?
You can find out by going on the land registry website and paying £3. I'd love to see that area of land built on. It serves no purpose and could be improved with development.
About twenty years ago, some work was done on that area by the Wildlife Trust, under the auspices of the Borough Council, I believe.
 

Tilly

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You can find out by going on the land registry website and paying £3. I'd love to see that area of land built on. It serves no purpose and could be improved with development.


I propose a cricket pavilion, hockey pitch, thicket hedge, sugar buns in the cloisters, head ducking in the urinals, caning in the listed building, and a crush hall

A sort of cruel theme park from 1968
 

Thehooperman

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I propose a cricket pavilion, hockey pitch, thicket hedge, sugar buns in the cloisters, head ducking in the urinals, caning in the listed building, and a crush hall

A sort of cruel theme park from 1968

You forgot to mention hedgucation. :)
 
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