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not resolvedDoing the corporate cyclist route today.
Bike to waverley > take on train to glasgow > do meeting > take train back to uphall on the new line > Bike downhill to ingliston > do work > go home.
Quick query though, is Queen Street LL okay for taking bikes down into, and does the Airdrie Bathgate line take em.
Question 2, is West Lothian under a ton of snow :)?
"Quick query though, is Queen Street LL okay for taking bikes down into, and does the Airdrie Bathgate line take em."
Yes
Yes
LL has escalators round the corner from main concourse AND lifts from main station platform - which took me years to notice.
A-B trains have no 'bike spaces' (went to Uphall on Monday!) lean bike in vestibule - think all stations have platforms on same side.
Braw, thank Chdot!
Ah, is that the bit round the back of the ticket office?
"Ah, is that the bit round the back of the ticket office?"
If you mean escalotors - yes, that's main way down.
Can't answer (previous) Q2 - but I expect trains will cope!
So here's how it really went down.
Bike to waverley > take on train to glasgow > do meeting > take train back to uphall on the new line > Get a puncture from a big hunk of glass on the bike path > Half arsedly fix puncture and break pedros tyre lever while putting tyre back on > Pump up tyre to discover I hadn't actually fixed it > Repeat previous two steps minus hadn't > Get going > find bike path cut in half by housing development > Track back to main road > Bike downhill to Ingliston > Feel back rim rubbing against ground > pump up > ride a bit > pump up > ride last mile on rim > do work > put bike in post room for night > get lift home.
Sigh.
Just my bike possibly, and a certain more haste, less speed state of mind when it comes to puncture repairs, or buckfast quaffing Uphallians. Haarumph.
Other that that tiny bit of glass it would have been great, even with the horrendous cross winds and broken up bike path, oh and that gravelly pink s*** all over one bit.
Well done though on your multi-modal exploration.
Sorry to hear about the P thing. Almost guaranteed to get two holes if glass is sneaky enough.
My WL customers like Marathon Plus.
Quite an achievement as I thought the railway may have fallen apart - risk of overhead lines coming down by now I expect.
Was your bike welcomed on board - or merely tolerated? Was the service busy?
I took a Brompton on the Airdrie - Edinburgh train last month.
People frequently take cumbersomes on the Queen St - Airdrie section. It might not be popular at rush hour but I've never had any grief and I have occasionally taken a cumbersome or a trailer on there. I fold the trailer but leave the wheels on so it just sits against the wall.
I don't remember putting a cumbersome on at Queen St, I'd usually got it in place at Charing Cross or somewhere further west where the train was quieter.
When I used it for getting to the Mysterious East it was busy in the morning from Bathgate to Waverley. I got one back around 1700 in the afternoon and it wasn't busy.
The Glasgow Queen St to Bellgrove section can be busy if the footballists are playing at Parkhead.
The newer Class 334 trains have a wheel chair area beside the toilet. Bikes can fit in this area but it's not designed for them. The older Class 320s have a sideways flip up seat which fits a bike when flipped. They are at the ends of the 3 car units. I don't think 320s will be running as far as Waverley as they have no facilities, indeed I don't know if they're still running on the line at all now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_334
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_320
And I use Marathon Plus if I absolutely have to be there on time. They're not fast but they will get you there. Looks like the Pashley at least three days a week till the end of June as I have to be back at the nursery with the trailer and on at least one of the days I don't have time for a flat.
It's a real shame it sucked, as I was really keen on giving it a go. Will try again next time I have to go and see folk in Glasgow.
Service was pretty dead in the middle, glasgow folk going to outer glasgow, and outer edinburgh folk heading into embra. Nice change to the usual shuttle route.
Was a juniper train, the 334 (recycled from my old home route to Port Glasgow), i was in the disabled bit, but just chained it into the curved wasll of the vestibule, at the toilet. Wasn't really room if I put in in the hallway bit. No bike hangers or anything useful like the turbostars.
Not a second glance from the guards though. Queen St Low Level even had a poster about taking your bike on the train!
My Conti CityContacts were fairly robust at first, much more so than the Schwalbe CityJets but by looking at the number of hacks and cuts on them they do take a pummeling on my 'mute route, and think they are becoming a little less effective.
Yah my citycontacts holed after about 200 miles :(
To be fair I've had them on since Feb 2010, so they're not that bad :)
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