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Edinburgh to Canterbury - a trip report

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Posted by SD70Dude on Saturday, November 3, 2018 5:33 PM

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It's nice that they brought back the LNER name.

Yes.  Very cool!

Are there any plans for steam excursions using the new LNER's coaches?

Perhaps pulled by 'Flying Scotsman' or one of the surviving A4's?

Would be quite the sight, just like the two 'Evening Stars' posed at the National Railway Museum not so long ago.

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Posted by oltmannd on Friday, November 2, 2018 10:48 AM

54light15
It's nice that they brought back the LNER name.

Yes.  Very cool!

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Posted by 54light15 on Sunday, October 28, 2018 10:29 AM

It's nice that they brought back the LNER name. I was there only a month ago, in St. Pancras and King's Cross. Wonderful places, they are, still serving the purpose they were built for. If only they would do something with Euston, a bleak, ugly place. It was the British NYP and suffered the same fate at about the same time as Penn. 

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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, October 27, 2018 1:15 PM

Great story and pictures!  Quite the "Canterbury Tale." 

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Posted by Miningman on Monday, October 22, 2018 8:06 PM

Nice. Bring it here.

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Edinburgh to Canterbury - a trip report
Posted by oltmannd on Monday, October 22, 2018 7:31 PM

If any one is curious how they do things "over there", I took a trip from Edinburgh to Canterbury.  It was just transportation as part of a vacation trip, but it was an really interesting trip.  Might be some take-aways for Amtrak.  I'm still thinking about that.  What do you all think?

https://blerfblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-train-story-uk-style.html

 

-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/

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