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Jack the Intrepid Train Traveller
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 8 ม.ค. 2018
Hello, I'm Jack, a massive rail nerd who lives on a boat and loves hiking and travelling. Stick around for videos of train trips, hiking adventures, places I visit on the boat and a series explaining how I think the UK rail network needs to be upgraded and expanded. It's my life project and I can't wait to share it with you all.
Cycling the River Ouse/Ure Day 4
My last day and truly the most victorious. I made it across many streams, up a hillside, through bog and even saw a jet fly down the valley while on my way up to the source. I then headed back down to head home along one of England's most scenic railways.
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Cycling the River Ouse/Ure Day 3
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So this was the 'day'. By far my most ambitious day when planning this and one I fell short on. It started on the very eastern edge of Wensleydale in Ripon where I explored its amazing cathedral. Then on setting away, I weaved my way through many a charming village with lots of castles, ruins, waterfalls and ICE CREAM 🍦. Alas I planned to get to Hawes but only got to Aysgarth, 2 villages east. ...
Cycling the River Ouse/Ure Day 2
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For day 2, I head out of the historic city of York across more of rural Yorkshire across many a quaint village and fancy bridge. At one of these, the Ouse changes its name and on cycling west from that point, I was cycling along side the Ure, no longer the Ouse. Just as the sun set, I reached my end point of Ripon, England's smallest city but most certainly not with the smallest cathedral. The ...
Cycling the River Ouse/Ure Day 1
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For my next river adventure, I headed to Yorkshire to cycle our 6th longest river, the River Ouse/Ure (yes it has 2 names depending on where you are, very confusing). For this first day, I got the train up to Goole where my voyage began through the bottom of North Yorkshire via Selby and I finished in the majestic city of York where I spent the evening at a concert. Join me for day 2 where I ma...
Cycling the River Great Ouse day 4: Wolverton to Syresham
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The final day. Today, I started from the edge of Wolverton at a point where the river frequently floods. My earliest travels were a trip down memory lane from when we had the boat up near Cosgrove. I soon left familiar territory and witnessed the river ever narrowing to then leaving the river to visit the grandiose Stowe. I eventually caught back up with it to its trickling beginnings in Syresh...
Cycling the River Great Ouse day 1: Kings Lynn to Ely
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So for my next expedition along one of our island's great rivers, I'm trundling along the 5th longest, the Great Ouse, on my trusty bike. My first day takes me through the very flat fens of Cambridgeshire as I cycle along dykes and man made flood defence channels and over barrages without a hill in sight. Well, for a glasses wearer there was very little in sight due to the endless rain. Instagr...
Guernsey
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Some footage from a weekend in Guernsey Instagram: jacktherailnerd Music channel: th-cam.com/channels/xFYz4cEv27xFuBZ2ONLN_A.html Rail transit upgrade mission FB page with maps of all of my proposals: profile.php?id=100028975344933
Entwistle Reservoirs
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Some footage I took around the Entwistle Reservoirs just north of Bolton the day before going on the last few rail lines I hadn't yet on Great Britain. Instagram: jacktherailnerd Music channel: th-cam.com/channels/xFYz4cEv27xFuBZ2ONLN_A.html Rail transit upgrade mission FB page with maps of all of my proposals: profile.php?id=100028975344933
I've been on every passenger rail line in Great Britain
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So finally, 6-19 years of train trips culminated in this weekend. This video is the weekend train trip I went on in order to complete this goal, mostly made up of going on rail lines I planned to do sooner but train cancellations played way to that. However, now I've done it, hooray. BTW for the record, I haven't been on every centimetre of track that a passenger train has ever ridden on in Bri...
Cycling the River Great Ouse day 3: Godmanchester to Wolverton
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In this day, I tackle the river during its low lying countryside farming and wild meandering stages through a lot of 'middle ish' Englands finest countryside until ending at the north end of Englands most infamous new town. Instagram: jacktherailnerd Music channel: th-cam.com/channels/xFYz4cEv27xFuBZ2ONLN_A.html Rail transit upgrade mission FB page with maps of all of my proposal...
Relaxing canal trip through Apsley
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Some footage I took of the canal as it meanders through Apsley on the edge of Hemel Instagram: jacktherailnerd Music channel: th-cam.com/channels/xFYz4cEv27xFuBZ2ONLN_A.html Rail transit upgrade mission FB page with maps of all of my proposals: profile.php?id=100028975344933
Cycling the River Severn (mostly pictures from 2020)
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I've been meaning to make this video for ages and I have finally got round to it. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the audio to work so it is very quiet until the end. Instagram: jacktherailnerd Music channel: th-cam.com/channels/xFYz4cEv27xFuBZ2ONLN_A.html Rail transit upgrade mission FB page with maps of all of my proposals: profile.php?id=100028975344933
Milton Keynes??? Town planning genius or hell hole?
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A few months later than planned. I made something completely different for MK because as a city, it is so out there. There wasn't anything that fun to do or any character about the place other than its alien origins which in turn where fascinating enough so I've made the whole video about them and trying to answer the age old question of 'has the city worked?' Instagram: jackthera...
Canal Trip through Milton Keynes
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Instagram: jacktherailnerd Music channel: th-cam.com/channels/xFYz4cEv27xFuBZ2ONLN_A.html Rail transit upgrade mission FB page with maps of all of my proposals: profile.php?id=100028975344933
Trekking along the Ridgeway (Goring to Avebury)
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Trekking along the Ridgeway (Goring to Avebury)
As the canal reaches the Chilterns, Marsworth
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As the canal reaches the Chilterns, Marsworth
Farms, Mills, Vegans and a very steep hill
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Farms, Mills, Vegans and a very steep hill
Trains from a Castle on the west coast main line
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Trains from a Castle on the west coast main line
British Intercity Trains..... How I'd fix them
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British Intercity Trains..... How I'd fix them
My street map obsession led me to create a country
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My street map obsession led me to create a country
Britains first 'planned' city (and roundabout)
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Britains first 'planned' city (and roundabout)
The cycling in MK is brilliant. Yew would go for miles and never see a busy street. The internal part of this town, Furzton Lake, Ouse River, Willem are really lovely, when cycling.
milton keynes is nothing but pure american suburban hellscape brought to britain, except with roundabouts so people can drive faster. hard pass
A woman designed this city and its the worst designed city ive ever been in
So condescending! Why?? You could have just reported on MK, but you chose to speak so disrespectfully. 🤷
You come across as a complete knob. Your video sucks more than MK.
Typical not very funny piece made by an arsehole who believes he's really, really funny! In actual fact he's as funny as earache - surprise, surprise! Stick to reading comics pal! Don't bore us with your views, I've lived here since 1979 and I STILL like it!
I moved from Birmingham to Milton Keynes for work and I actually love that I can get from one side to the other in less than 10 minutes.
One of the best things for sure. I get the fact it feels dystopian since you don’t see people when you’re in a car, but the fact every road can be a dual carriageway is amazing. Always 5-10 minutes from everywhere
I am a born and bread Londoner. When I left it was with regret. Now, if you even offered me a £5m mansion in London, I would turn it down. This is because, we, in our street have something I never had anywhere in London… neighbours… I know everyone in my street and are chatting friends with most. This spreads to a next street too. We also look out for each other. When anyone is away, we all keep an eye on their place. We also do things like water their plants. From our front door, there is a score of lovely walks. Some of those walks take me to a village mentioned in the Domesday book, the sight of twelfth century windmill (the oldest of its type in the UK), an eleventh century church, 16th century manor house, a four-hundred year old tree, the sight of an old railway, the Grand Union Canal, farm buildings of various antiquity. On that walk I can breathe in air that is so clean because of the parks and woodlands surrounding. A ten minute drive takes us to a 11th century abbey, a town so very involved in the ECW, a coaching town that has the original Cock & Ball plus several other important places, the sight of the first diesel engine, the factory that used to build the greatest British car (Aston Martin), The best University in the world (OU), many Roman and Medieval sights… and of course: Bletchley Park, one of the most important places in the world…
Awesome, I also went to Oslo a couple of months ago! Was very impressed with the public transport, always very efficient. Don't suppose you've been on the Bergensbanen?
The part about the original Milton Keynes village (and surrounding villages) once again reminds me of Lowfield Heath in the South East. Once a small hamlet, but most buildings razed and all residents completely displaced to make way for Gatwick Airport. The only buildings that remain are the church (which I believe is modern anyway) and the windmill from the 1700s which has been relocated to nearby Charlwood. Charlwood still stands despite the airport, and the residents actively oppose the building of a second runway
Similar to Crawley, once an old town dating to Saxon times that they turned into a utopian "New Town" and ruined. Took most of the life out of it and replaced it with red brick newbuilds and a concrete high street for peak consumerism (which now no longer even serves that purpose). But there is still a remnant of the old culture and people there if you know where to look
It’s like every new town. After MK, we spent some time in Hemel and visited Stevenage for a wedding and in both, you can still find the preserved original village with all the charm of an old Home Counties farming town
@jackthetrainspotter9727 for sure, the home counties are not one big grey concrete metropolis yet!
@@jackthetrainspotter9727yet MK attracts families from all the surrounding areas, improving itself year on year. So that kind of contradicts what you’re saying because the population is growing. It’s a safe place where you can have a comfortable reasonably priced home with easy access for day-to-day living and work. You can pretty much get to 80% of the UK within two hours due to its location. Everything culturally that Milton keynes is missing you have 30 minutes on the train into London, but for me that cultural onslaught of drunks pickpockets and tramps is worse than hearing the soft drone in a few places of a road. Milton keynes in my opinion gives the best of both worlds.
@@Pain4yourmind I wouldn't necessarily say growing population = it's getting better, if that's what you're suggesting
It's like you missed the whole point of the city, no one is more than half a mile from a park, most of the estates have local businesses and a small shopping area where you walk to. You visited everything near a main road (you called them highways) but the majority of placed you do not hear traffic noise.
I’d say I got the point of the city, to just be utilitarian but doing that alone doesn’t work. As for parks, Most people in cities around the world are near parks but as like in MK these are still usually small and even around Willen Lake you can always hear traffic. I was always near a highway in MK because by its design you’re never more than 500m from one and I could definitely always hear traffic despite having hearing issues.
You can walk from Wolverton to Tattenhoe via the Loughton Valley Park almost without touching a road. Over 7 miles of parkland, streams and lakes. Yes it passes under busy roads but it is a City of 300,000. There are plenty of places where you can escape road noise. I live in an estate 500m from the road and you don't really hear the main road.
@@paulcoveney5232one of my favourite things about the city. You can walk across the whole city without having to cross paths with a car
Oh wow I didnt know all these things about MK, I literally just went there for the shopping center, but recently I explored around a bit and Campbell park, although not amazing, was quite pleasant. the city center has all the amenities and a few attractions like the xcape but they just need to make it a bit less of a concrete jungle, whack in a big underground car park and pedestrianise the big flat car parks and add some trees and benches it'll make everything feel a bit less isolated and provide space for some seasonal events like summer fair and Christmas market, stuff like that
Well the mall has a multi storey so just add a couple more floors to that to save the expense of tunnelling but getting rid of those endless car parks would be a delight and while your re landscaping the city centre, perfect opportunity for some tram tracks and more bus lanes so not so many car parks are needed anyway 😃
Teapot
This was awesome! I lived in MK before traveling! :D
Thanks ❤
OMG The Seats Are Falling Apart 😳
I've been living in neighbouring Bedfordshire for a couple of years so have had the opportunity to visit MK a few times now. The centre gives me Washington DC vibes, yet the bike paths give me Rotterdam vibes to an extent. When my friends came to visit once they called it 'car park city'. Overall its alright for being functional, little bit too car centric but at least the cycle paths offer a relatively safe alternative which is free of traffic.
Never been to DC but from pics I’ve seen it seems to include a lot of open space for nothing (like MK). It certainly is car park city (or hell hole) but cycling around is brilliant there
I recently went for a bike ride in MK. I was pleasantly surprised at the little villages and countryside. The centre is concrete city though with a lot of homeless. The train station is like a campsite. Re the roads, they were pothole free and many of the roads are dual carriageways so 70mph 👌
I remember seeing all the tents, especially around the mall. It’s quite common that some of the most economically productive cities have the highest inequality and social issues. As for biking and driving, the city is perfect for both but when u consider neither really like each other 😂
35/50 worst town 230 330 4:05 Nothing like a slave owner starting a town 4:30 Initial plan - monorail 5:40 Redways 6:50 bus 7:20 8:00 8:18 9:12 highways 9:36 10:00 Indoor ski 10:20 over 3 story 10:50 11:55 1212 1st and biggest pogoda in western world 12:50 tree cathedral 14:50 wndmill 14:55 og MK 16:25 old church 17:55 Roman civilization - process seems to be still going tho 18:20 18:30 Alan turing 19:12 the good 21:21 Why Japan is better 23:20 Too planned out 24:30 24:45 Tram yes pls
Hell hole. So ugly, unwelcoming, and has probably the worst city centre of any city in the UK
City centre definitely but some of the surroundings (that were built before CMK) are lovely if you pardon the endless road noise 😂
In Poland we have a city called Tychy (ˈtɨxɨ), with similar layout to Milton Keynes. It was built to provide housing for Silesian region workers. However the public transport is way better than MK.
Not gonna lie , it looks dull af. But I do like concrete cows for some reason 😊
I love them too 😂🐄🐮
Its all sort of soviet looking 😆
I've lived in some soviet cities and MK, the soviet ones have all been far better planned than this MK dumpster 😂😂😂😂
@@crypticTV soviet cities have trams and super deep underground metros instead of endless highways 😂
@@jackthetrainspotter9727 very true!!
After Cowroast you skipped a bit
I wonder why LNER, given the history of this service, only runs the train under the name Flying Scotsman only from Edinburgh to London instead of both ways and why the service doesn't run at 10am instead of the early morning hours? I've always thought it was odd.
To beat airlines, I would probably run this type of service every 2 hours and have all of them extend to Aberdeen or Perth
Think the livery looks better on the 805s than the 390s and 221s
TRAINS!!!!!❤
These look so AMAZING! I just subbed - keep up the good work on your channel
Thanks so much for coming over and subbing 😃
Oh gosh, I used to do this as well, never quite this detailed but I'm pretty sure that the Isles of Rexellia took up a lot more of my time than they should have done.
Do you still have those maps, looks like you need to make a video too
@@jackthetrainspotter9727 Sadly not, it's been a fair few years and a few house moves and they disappeared somewhere along the way.
@@EuroDC1990 noooooooo 😢
I dream of been able to open the window and get some fresh air again. Was travelling intercity in Poland recently and took an old train back and my god it was nice to be able to get a breeze rather than rebreathing hot canned air. I think having a regular drumbeat of electrifying lines should be the priority atm- the government should set targets into law, then the private sector can plan around it, rather than the boom-bust culture of today. Planning permission of a lot of rail needs to be more permissive, and many lines need to be preapproved- look how much opposition even tame schemes such as east-west rail is generating! Building costs per km of track atm are an order of magnitude higher than Spain, and I don't see how continuing like this is feasible. Gotta agree with your disapproval of the hub station concept for the east midlands- they often are an excuse to build stations moated on all sides by hundreds of meters of surface parking. Thanks for the video!
definitely agree with you re electrification. my plan is for each metro area/region to set a goal to electrify 2 or so sections of track each year along with line reopenings. I think things will go faster if organised locally, look at Wales. only high speed rail would remain a national project
2:22 I do understand the idea of there being development around the stations but to be honest why wouldn't there be housing with the huge shortage we've got (because TOD is good). Like for sure it would not only be offices unless it's Milton Keynes and then yeah ofc it's crap but that's more of a Milton Keynes design choice than anything else- yet I do also understand that new station builds are a bit bland and plasticky and am personally lucky to have my local as a grade II listed station. Going back to the idea of development, is this what they put in their plan or what you think there will be?
There were no concrete plans for development around the proposed East Midlands Hun station (which currently isn’t being built anyway) but I imagine if it were to go ahead, loads of developers would be desperate to get their hands on it and what they’d build would be very Milton Keynes esque. However, I do think you’re right about them building housing. It’ll probably be the main thing they’d build
I agree with much of what you say here, I think in the short term we should pause building on HS2 and the main priority needs to be making best use of the facilities and infrastructure we have already. To me, that means redrawing services somewhat, simplifying the tangled map of train operators, and ensuring that trains are sufficient for the services they're running. Many Transpennine routes, routes like Liverpool to Norwich and Cardiff to Portsmouth should become part of an extended Cross Country franchise alongside new East-West Routes (Holyhead to Hull via Leeds, Liverpool to Lincoln and perhaps Skegness via Sheffield), a service between Manchester and Nottingham that uses the curve at Dore to avoid reversing in Sheffield. These trains should be operated as proper intercity services, all should have no fewer than 9 carriages and all should have catering and first class available. Electrification of the MML, Transpennine and XC lines should also be prioritised. In the longer term, we need to really look again at High Speed Rail and decide what we want to achieve, and stick to a plan. At the minute we're building blind and that's never a good thing. HS2 has become a complete Frankenstein of a project given all the changes and we need to either commit to spending what it costs to do it right, or abandon it. I would never have chosen the route that has been selected and think the M1 corridor would have been far superior for connectivity, and connectivity and capacity rather than speed needs to be the real aim. I'd scrap Curzon Street station in favour of expanding New Street, paid for by scrapping Birmingham Interchange entirely (really, what is the point ?) and I'd use New Street as the centre of a new roughly X shaped network with provision built in for future expansion. The spur to London already being built, would, in an ideal world not go through the Chilterns but as it does they should have a parkway station and interchange with East-West rail link. Ideally it should use St Pancras or Kings Cross rather than Euston (or all three combined to form one big super hub) but I'll concede that that might be too big, complicated and expensive a task. Out from Birmingham you can then have a NE spur to Nottingham (or, and here's a radical idea, East Midlands Parkway right next to a massively expanded East Midlands Airport as a new Central UK hub airport as an alternative to expanding Heathrow), Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle Edinburgh and Glasgow. A NW spur to Manchester, Liverpool and North Wales. A SW spur to Bristol, South Wales and Devon/Cornwall. I'd also of course build East-West connections including a new Liverpool - Manchester - Leeds/Sheffield route. More than anything else though, what we need is a vision and joined up thinking. It doesn't matter whether it's my vision, your vision or somebody else's vision but there needs to be one that's set out and adhered to.
I completely agree with your Birmingham Idea, since Cursor street's western end will be near Moor and New street, I would extend New Street out east (while rearranging its tracks) and have one massive Birmingham central combining all 3 stations (with a metro station underneath for a new, proper west midlands metro) I also like your idea of a combined train/airport hub in the East Midlands, I hadn't thought of this. as I said, my idea is to have high speed trains go right into Nottingham. Keep in mind that the airport would need room to expand and with more capacity on HS1 and sleeper trains to Europe (which I explain in my sleeper train video), we'd hopefully free up some capacity at Heathrow, Gatwick etc so we don't need to expand any airports.
I have never used a sleeper train but always loved the idea of it. The rest of Europe is improving their night network. Would be good to link into it like you say. Would much rather sleep on a train than have to get up at 3am for a flight to Spain.
Oh wow,very cool. Would you ever design a old English town, or a town inspired from the medieval period?
I’m actually in the process of making a second country which will follow within the typical trajectory of human history. It is to be located north of the Netherlands and west of Denmark so after mapping the coast, mountains, forest etc, I’m going to figure out its history taking into account the surrounding history and figure out how the towns and cities would evolve throughout the ages (including the Middle Ages)
@@jackthetrainspotter9727 this is 1000% what all fantasy writer needs, dedicated maps for their stories. Cannot wait to see the progress mate !
@@jasonmighty3328 I’ve even got a story set up in my head set in the country but it’s on a more realistic setting than say lord of the rings
Amazing, this looks very complicated and interesting!
This is really cool
fascinating, there's more people doing imaginary country mapping than I thought. and I love it! (looking at it of course, I'd never have patience to do it myself. although I did write a fictional constitution once)
I’m the other way around. I’ve had loads of scattered ideas for a constitution but never written one. What was ur country called
@@jackthetrainspotter9727 Never went so far as to give it a name. I was inspired by the now failed Chilean attempt to rewrite their constitution. It was more about experimenting with various legal concepts: - mix of proportional and territorial representation in a unicameral parliament - sunset period for laws if not renewed - dealing with secessionism in multilingual, multiethnic countries - mechanisms agains dictatorships and authoritarian rule - not codifying a capitalist or socialist economy, leaving space for experimentation, while having a safety net for all citizens - land and natural resources ownership - taxation system - not a part of the constitution, but I gave it some though
@@BoredSquirell you've thought a lot more about this than me but a few of these are eternal internal dilemmas in my head 🤣
woah
amazing
When it runs
yeah ours was late because the train before on our platform was also a loco set for Manchester that conked out on the platform for almost 30 mins
I did an Edinburgh to Kings Cross on an Azuma on Monday and I can safely say the ride is terrible and my unit had broken headrests and one missing in my coach. That's the DfT for you - building everything down to a price with the minimum effort. The Intercity 225 I took from Leeds to King's Cross was far more comfortable and the standard class seats were far nicer than the first class Azumas. Nowhere near good enough for four hours to Scotland, never mind 7/8 to Aberdeen and Inverness.
the seats are pathetic, literally the standard class on 225 is softer than IET first class and the first class on 225 is 2 steps from a lazy boy recliner 😂
@@jackthetrainspotter9727 Oh god yeah, I'd love to try a first class on a 225 but prices have to be reasonable enough. I have done Kings Cross to Edinburgh and back on a 225 when it was East Coast and loved both times.
Great to see that Trafnidiaeth Cymru are re-introducing proper trains along with hot food and luxurious seating. 🏴
I'm loving your sense of humour mate! Keep these reports coming!
If you leave Oxford Road station the entrance is the impressive part!
I guess I’ll have to return, the rain probably didn’t help
The Scottish Parliament is at the bottom of the royal mile across from Holyrood House. Governor's House is next to St Andrews house a Scottish Government building but not the parliament. Governor's house was part of Calton Jail which used to be where St Andrews house is today.
I know the main building is holyrood. It that on Google maps it just says scottish government which confused me. I presumed both were main government buildings
But how can it be the only intercity train, when there is a train from Swansea (sometimes Carmarthen or Milford Haven) to Cardiff from FGW (ok it goes on to Padd) and one from Holyhead which goes all the way through to Euston from Avanti? Those are both intercity routes.
They are but they run mostly in England. I meant intercity trains mostly in wales
An interesting tour of a town I've lived around and in for nearly 40 years. It shows all the things that i love about it
The train comes in with a delay of 20 minutes, pulled by a DB-Locomotive. I think the case is clear ;)
ahhh you germans, expecting everyone to be on time while all the trains are at least 15 mins late 😆
@@jackthetrainspotter9727 We expect our trains to be on time as well, and are kinda angry if they aren't... so almost everytime
@@bahnfahrenaufschlau we expect the same in the UK, to a point 😅
Thanks Jack. It's great to see it from a visitor's POV. As someone who lives here, it's great. Hope you come back again one day. Enjoy MK - a city of possibilities!
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