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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><A
style='href: "http://www.thetrainline.com"'>www.thetrainline.com</A> is just
scratching the surface, and anyway they charge a £1 fee when you buy
tickets.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Take for example the Oyster card (for journeys within the
greater London area for travel on the Underground, buses, trams, Overground and
National Rail).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you register the
card online *and* you have a railcard (e.g. a Senior Railcard, giving you
one-third off most National Rail journeys), *IF* you link the railcard to the
Oyster card, you get extra reductions on some of your Oyster card journeys, even
if they are not on National Rail services.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Which journeys?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even I don’t
really know the answer to that, but I know it works, and I suspect they are
journeys outside the rush hour.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">I expect at this point, some of you may have had to go and
lie down, but for those who are still with me and can keep their eyes open I
will go on.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">I have been to the Isle of Wight a number of times; I am a
Life Friend of Dimbola and have even slept in Tennyson’s bedroom, but I have
never been up Tennyson’s Down.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
don’t know why that so, but I thought it was about time I did, so I have booked
a daytrip on Monday 21 July from London.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>First, return rail from Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour for £2.50 (you
won’t get that on <A
style='href: "http://www.thetrainline.com"'>www.thetrainline.com</A>!): dep.
8.00, arrive 9.37; return 17.45-19.29.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>No other trains are allowed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But at £1 each way (the 50p is the booking fee), it seems unnecessarily
tight-fisted(!) not to take out “insurance” – there might be problems with the
ferries or I might like to stay longer – so I’ve also bought a second return
ticket for £1.50: 19.45-21.27.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Now comes the tricky part. . . .</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">There are various ways of getting to the Isle of Wight by
ferry, but if you’re going for the day you obviously want to go as quickly as
possible, and the quickest way is by catamaran from Portsmouth Harbour (the
catamaran entrance is actually in the station): 18 min.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But: the quicker the more
expensive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s £18.80
return.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Well, I found a website that listed 19 (or perhaps 29)
ways of getting to the Isle of Wight cheaply, but none quite fitted my
requirements, so I hit on a wizard wheeze.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In certain circumstances, you can buy combined rail and ferry
tickets.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For example, you can buy a
ticket from Glasgow Central to Rothesay.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Rothesay doesn’t have a railway station (it’s on the Isle of Bute) – cf.
“To the Lighthouse”, where “Lily Briscoe had her bag carried up to the house
late one evening in September. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mr.
Carmichael came by the same train” (there never was a train line on Skye).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you hardly save anything.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, I have booked a return rail
ticket from Portsmouth Harbour to Ryde St Johns Road station on the IoW (which
*does* have a short rail line, using old London Underground trains of all
things), and with my Senior Rail card reduction of one-third it costs only
£12.80 – thus saving £6!<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"></I></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">And of course the buses on the IoW are free for residents
in England who are over 60 (I’m simplifying here, of course).</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">How does the saying go?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Something about money poor, time
rich.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mhussey@verizon.net
href="mailto:mhussey@verizon.net">Mark Hussey</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 05, 2014 1:47 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com
href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">'Stuart N. Clarke'</A> ; <A
title=VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">'woolf list'</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Scotland again</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Thanks for confirming, Stuart, that it isn’t just me!
Travel by train in the UK now does seem to require at least an advanced degree
in physics. But trainline.com is handy!<o:p></o:p></P>
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vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Stuart
N. Clarke<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 05, 2014 6:58 AM<BR><B>To:</B> woolf
list<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Scotland
again<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>I feel sorry for
tourists to the UK who attempt to use the railways, for I know they will be
ripped off. I’m sure that most people on this list will have at least one
postgraduate degree, but you will need to apply considerable transferable skills
to master the pricing structures.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>I thought I would make
a daytrip in the autumn next year to Abbotsford (<A
title=http://www.scottsabbotsford.com/visit/
href="http://www.scottsabbotsford.com/visit/">http://www.scottsabbotsford.com/visit/</A>),
when the Borders Railway line (né Waverley line) reopens from
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>“It is 50 years since
Dr Richard Beeching's report on British Railways which led to hundreds of
stations and 650 miles of railway line being closed in Scotland. The axing of
the 98-mile Waverley Route from Edinburgh to Carlisle was the worst of all the
Beeching cuts, according to author and railway expert David Spaven. The closure
left the Scottish Borders as the only region of Britain without a train service
and Hawick, 56 miles from Edinburgh and 42 miles from Carlisle, as the largest
town farthest from a railway station.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>The terminus at
Tweedbank will be only a 20 min. walk from
Abbotsford.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>In any case, it is in
a sense *my* railway line:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>Eskbank: close to
Bonnyrigg (cousin lives there) & Lasswade (mother born
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>Of course, it should
never have been closed by Beeching, and should continue to
Carlisle:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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title=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverley_Line
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>“Then there was
Scott—he went bankrupt, and left, together with a few magnificent novels, one
house, Abbotsford, which is perhaps the ugliest in the whole Empire”
(“Middlebrow”, [Oct. 1932]), there is no evidence that she ever visited
Abbotsford. She came close in June 1938, visiting Scott’s grave in
Dryburgh Abbey, but surely she would have mentioned it if she had actually
visited Abbotsford? (Similarly, I went on a driving holiday years ago and
just missed visiting it – well, you can’t do
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>I thought that we’d
have lunch in the restaurant. Unfortunately, I won’t want to eat a lot of the
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>It’s the sort of muck
that I call “International British” – plenty of cream and cheese, and a tendency
to mix sweet with savoury – so it’ll probably be just a
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>So: car to Preston;
with luck free parking near the station, but probably £10 in the station car
park; hopefully, £2.50 – yes £2.50 – return by train on the 7.53 to Edinburgh;
arriving 10.23; return to Tweedbank (perhaps £13.10 return, less one-third with
my Senior Rail Card: <A
title=http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/project/borders-railway
href="http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/project/borders-railway">http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/project/borders-railway</A>),
probably leaving at 10.54, arriving at Tweedbank c. 55 min. later; returning
from Edinburgh on the 18.52; arriving Preston
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