Anyone fancy driving from Newcastle to Hemel Hempstead on Thursday morning??

Maz · 6 Feb 2007 at 23:59

Evening chaps,

booking a train ticket is proving difficult, anyone fancy driving down?

I'll pay all expenses inc fuel and food!

Basically drive down V early on Thurs am, return for thurs afternoon.

Conanius · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:08

Maz said:
Evening chaps,

booking a train ticket is proving difficult, anyone fancy driving down?

I'll pay all expenses inc fuel and food!

Basically drive down V early on Thurs am, return for thurs afternoon.

www.trainline.co.uk ..... looks like 2 changes and about 4 hour journey time

Morba · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:11

booking a train shouldnt be hard at all. its the gner run from kings cross isnt it? (or virgin)

Conanius · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:21

Station Arr Dep Travel by Service Provider
NEWCASTLE 07:39 Train GNER
LONDON KINGS CROSS 10:44 10:44 Tube*
LONDON EUSTON 11:24 11:24 Train SILVERLINK
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD 11:48

Maz · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:24

Conanius said:
Station Arr Dep Travel by Service Provider
NEWCASTLE 07:39 Train GNER
LONDON KINGS CROSS 10:44 10:44 Tube*
LONDON EUSTON 11:24 11:24 Train SILVERLINK
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD 11:48

You seen the prices of tickets??

Conanius · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:27

id be shocked if it was much more than £40-50

I used to do Cheltenham - London Paddington - Cheltenham with FGW and IIRC that was £45 return... id imagine its a similar distance your covering in total... but happy to be proven wrong !

Morba · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:30

its the timing of the booking tho, this late will make it quite dear i would imagine.

Scuzi · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:32

www.nationalexpress.co.uk - £34.50

Morba · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:37

Scuzi said:
www.nationalexpress.co.uk - £34.50

thinking about it, isnt there an even cheaper coach service, or is that only early bookings. im sure some company does cardiff to london for £1!

Simon · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:59

Conanius said:
id be shocked if it was much more than £40-50

I used to do Cheltenham - London Paddington - Cheltenham with FGW and IIRC that was £45 return... id imagine its a similar distance your covering in total... but happy to be proven wrong !

Returns arent much more than a single for the same trip though.

Newcastle is a lot further north than you think.

Bunka · 7 Feb 2007 at 01:12

Have a look on www.megabus.com

Just found these details if they are any good?

01:15 Depart Newcastle, Neville Street
Arrive London Victoria, Greenline Coach Station 07:30 1 seat = £12.00

08:45 Depart Newcastle, Neville Street
Arrive London Victoria, Greenline Coach Station 15:25 1 seat = £8.00

13:45 Depart Newcastle, Neville Street
Arrive London Victoria, Greenline Coach Station 20:25 1 seat = £11.00

Del Lardo · 7 Feb 2007 at 08:33

Look at the weather forcast for Thursday. The roads will be a screwed as they normally are when we get 2mm of snow :mad:

Maz · 7 Feb 2007 at 20:55

11:30 tonight on the National Express

Get there for about 8:00 am

al123 · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:03

I'm going to say for £100 train tickets?

That's how much they were when my aunt looked at getting the train from Darlington (More south than Newcastle) to Welwyn Garden City.

Nikumba · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:30

When looking at train tickets also look at *** single price to and from can work out a lot cheaper

Maz · 7 Feb 2007 at 23:47

Well I'm still here.

Bloke rang me to tell me that the car is clocked!

Apparently BMW customer services told him the car was last serviced at 150k, car has 84k on clock

Here is the advert

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/ww...category=CARS&channel=CARS&id=200706269784136

austinpowers · 7 Feb 2007 at 23:52

Link not working..

Mr Joshua · 8 Feb 2007 at 00:05

Nikumba said:
When looking at train tickets also look at *** single price to and from can work out a lot cheaper

Typing in the year made a difference for one of my journies too.

[TW]Fox · 9 Feb 2007 at 00:20

Maz said:
Bloke rang me to tell me that the car is clocked!

Apparently BMW customer services told him the car was last serviced at 150k, car has 84k on clock

No they didn't. The BMW Customer Information centre do not hold mileage data for cars like this. All they have is a list of visits the car has had - it doesn't tell them if its a service, warranty work, additional work or what. Just that it visited a dealer. The mileage is NOT listed - all thats listed is the date of the visit, and the dealer. You've then got to ring the dealer themselves, who can tell you the mileage.

Sounds like he's flogged it to someone else for more money and wanted a way out of the deal.

Rotty · 9 Feb 2007 at 00:34

I saw a printout form somewhere for my car that listed all services with dates and mileage ( this matched the service book ) , the services were at different dealers so I doubt it came from a dealer but no idea where it had come from