I'm giving it some very serious thought - thanks so much for the dog basket offer. I could do with a break here, shopping in London, Ministers, and getting plastered with whey-faced geeks sounds just the ticket.
 
I should know if I can swing it in a day or too.  

Ah - that might explain it. Baws. Normally I get a reasonably early train over to Edinburgh to meet the 9:30ish to [whereever], which gets to York about lunchtime. If things are all fuxorred, the plan might change. I'll ask questions next time I'm in the station.

I believe we can all say hooray!

When it comes to which train to catch, I'll just follow your lead. I seem to have an inability to either find a good route, or put up with rail trip planning sites.

 

No Megabusses running, I rather enjoy public transport based torture.

Seconded! :)

Are you needing a place in the dog basket, Dave!!?

I won't, no. As it stands, York to Darlo is only a 20 minute train trip for me, plus I can stick around a fair bit longer than I did at Bradford with regards to getting the last train anyway. Thanks for the offer though!

My plan is to go up there for a week, so I was thinking of booking a guesthouse. Unless of course the dog might rent the basket out over the week, but I was presuming that would be inconvenient.

Given that I could well be heading off to Malaysia on the Monday, I am not sure that Gill that would thank me for adding B&B landlady on to her workload as mum & teacher. But you're thrice welcome for the Saturday night.

I think I will do the Saturday - sleeping with four Scottishes is an irresistable temptation. :)

Disclaimer: I am not actually Scottish.

Just /once/ you could pretend! >:-(

I will (if I come) probably umm and er and go for the train, then come back, then go and get the next train. Or I might stay over. But I might not come at all.

You've got it all planned out then :)

As usual :)

I (+Bob if he comes, which he probably will) would like to request a place to stay for the night should it be necessary, as alcohol will probably be consumed, making a 200-mile Saturday-night drive out of the question.

Hmmmm.

 

At this stage I'm not sure. Can I say yes, probably but reserve the right to wuss out if my diary fills itself up any more than its current state?

 

Also, the basket of dogs seems to be getting rather full. Will May be able to squeeze me in?

 

Ooh, and I just got back from a week of working oop in the grim north to find a a charming little package waiting for me. I'll be installing and fiddling as soon as hand eye co-ordination returns to a reasonable level. Ta again!

For the train tickets booking in advance can make the difference of paying £20 for a return to paying £100.

 

The Trainline isn't a train operator so make their money by charging a wee bit extra on top of the 'normal' ticket price.

 

If you do book then buy from www.gner.co.uk . It may only be 1 or 2 pounds cheaper, but on some occasions I've saved £10-£15 by booking direct with GNER (the actual train company).

wow, that much? I'll check that out. Last time I was there, it was much cheaper to buy a rail pass here, so I'll check that too. Don't know how easy it would be to reserve from here otherwiae.

Dear Kenny,

 

Have you managed to find out about trains yet? I ask because I was hoping to go and buy my tickets this afternoon and obviously it's better if you Glasgows sort out which train we're getting as you're the only ones doing the first leg.

 

Many thanks,

 

Boff