Sod it, the Sunbeam still ain't gonna be ready for Friday - looks like I may have to go down the route of having something specifically machined. So I think I'm gonna head up Arthur's Seat and have the old cook-out again. Forecast at the mo is SUNNY 7-10am!
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Friday 3rd August - Arthur's Seat Cook-Out Brekkie
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Posted 11 years ago #
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It's sunny, and PY was supposed to be for a Sunbeam show.
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If I can get a 120 spool and a few folk are going I might pop along. I'm still on holiday and we might be going for a day trip, but maybe not.
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I'll be experiencing the best that Scotland's public transport system has to offer to get me the 59 miles to Glasgow Airport. 2h20m fastest early morning journey time. I could get up an hour earlier and arrive all of 15 minutes earlier by taking the 3h15m option.
You can probably do it in under an hour in a car at 6AM.
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What you paying in Public transport?
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"You can probably do it in under an hour in a car at 6AM."
Not legally.
Go westwards on Thursday night and find a cosy corner of the airport to kip in?
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Not advocating car use but you can get tomglasgow airport in 45 minutes from Balerno, legally, IF traffic flowing. It is good place to rendezvous for west highland destinations too. Easier almost to get to than Edinburgh (taxi cheaper for that one). Prestwick almost easier than Glasgow by public transport as train goes there direct.
I phoned the trams people and made them laff. I was after a ticket on the first tram. When i didn't get one i said I was not bothered and told them the story of the first passenger death on the trains William Husskisson, who was killed on the Rocket's inaugural trip twixt liverpool and Manchester. worth googling the story if you have a minute, involves duke of Wellington, massive doses of laudanum, near riot etc
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I got a free Ayr-Glasgow return trip when that line was electrified.
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"You can probably do it in under an hour in a car at 6AM."
Not legally.
59 miles with max speed allowed of 70mph for majority of route? Must be just about possible!
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Some of the M8/A8 drops to 50 when it hits Glasgow, but maybe there's another road which cuts around the south of that bit which is mo70r-all-the-way.
When we lived in Newington and we were driving through to Ayr I was allowed to get out to the bypass via Liberton Road or Comiston Road if it was suspected that it would be a bad time to go through Gorgie (and it was about five miles to the bypass in any direction), but when starting from Leith I get complained at if I try to head the mere 1.83 miles east over to Harry Lauder to go the longer-in-miles-but-involving-significantly-fewer-traffic-junction-interactions bypass-route rather than the fretful and fraught Drylaw/Maybury/Gogarbout, which can take forty minutes or more just to get to the A8 when it's me doing it and sticking under the speed limits.
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"You can probably do it in under an hour in a car at 6AM."
Not legally.
I have heard tell that was possible to drive from the middle of Glasgow to the middle of Edinburgh in 25 minutes. Apparently it required a high powered British Leyland car, a lack of police vehicles along the M8, and a 3am departure.
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Turns out I had a couple of pics from this event lurking on my camera all this time...
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