Date : Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:44:20 +0100
From : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Current List of Exhibitors @ Acorn World 2009 (Sept
Hmm...
You can fly...
But earliest I can find on Sunday 13th Sep gets you to Leeds/Bradford
at 13.30. (deps Gatwick at 12.20) not too bad at ?35 though. Prob
cost as much again for a taxi to the hotel though :-(
On 21/07/2009, Ian Wolstenholme <bbcmailinglist@...> wrote:
> Hmm, the Manchester to Huddersfield leg of the journey is threatening
> to scupper the whole enterprise: there aren't any direct trains from
> Manchester to Huddersfield on Sunday 13th September 2009 due to
> engineering works (although there are direct trains from Huddersfield
> to Manchester, so I can get home, and in fact I could even arrive in
> Manchester by direct train from Huddersfield at a time when there
> aren't any trains leaving Manchester, so presumably they are only
> working on odd-numbered platforms or something).
>
> The best bet might be the 9am train mentioned earlier, although
> Virgin don't seem to want people to know about it: if I ask their
> website for departures from London to Huddersfield on that day
> after 7am it comes up with the 12.35 departure mentioned earlier,
> looking for earlier trains then gives the 9pm departure the previous
> night (before the Proms finale has happened) and then asking for later
> trains finally turns up the 9am one.
>
> I could go by National Express from Manchester to Huddersfield
> but unfortunately I would have to leave at 9.15, which is 90
> minutes before the earliest time I could arrive, go to Sheffield,
> wait there for 2 hours 20 mins and then go to Huddersfield, arriving
> at 4.45pm. To get home again the same day I would have to leave at 7 am,
> over two hours before the coach getting me there sets off from its
> departure point.
>
> My brain hurts....
>
> L.M. Gumby
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ian Wolstenholme [mailto:bbcmailinglist@...]
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:33:20 +0100
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Current List of Exhibitors @ Acorn World 2009 (Sept
>
> Try not to use the same website I did! It seems to be unreliable in
> train times involving Yorkshire!
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
> [mailto:jgh@...]
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: 21 Jul 2009 15:07:22 +0100
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Current List of Exhibitors @ Acorn World 2009 (Sept
>
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>
> "Dave Moore" wrote:
>> > however I will need someone else to 'take care' of the MDFS
>> JGH - are you reading? :)
>
> Yes, I'm planning on being there. Just need to check out train
> times, etc.
>
> --
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> of the party. They are ageing and their ideals have also passed,
> dispersed by the contrarities of daily struggles.
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