London King’s Cross Station To Glasgow Central Station For £64.35
My plan on Friday, was to see if it was possible to get to Glasgow using the historic route of the Midland Railway’s Thames-Clyde Expresses.
I used two tickets and four trains.
My first ticket was from King’s Cross to Bradford Forster Square, which cost me just £24.55 with my Senior Railcard.
- I left on the 11:40, which was a nine-car train.
- The train reversed at Leeds.
- The train was eight minutes late into Bradford Forster Square station.
I took these pictures on my route North.
Note.
- The Biggleswade Wind Farm Is Only 20 MW.
- The new A 421 Extension Will Run between Black Cat and Caxton Gibbet.
- A large number of new buildings are going up on the approach to Leeds station.
- The train reversed at Leeds station.
- The reverse took ten minutes.
- The £100 million Shipley Traincare Centre is under construction.
- This page gives more details of the Shipley Traincare Centre.
- Bradford Forster Square station has been designed and build with four long platforms.
Have Network Rail designed the station, so that it can handle ten-car Leeds and Scotland services with a reverse?
- At Bradford Forster Square station, I bought a ticket to Glasgow Central/Queen Street stations for £39.80 with a Railcard.
- So that was my total expenditure of £64.35, as the coffee was free.
- My route would take me to Carlisle over the Settle and Carlisle Line.
- From Carlisle, I would take any of a number of trains to Glasgow Central station.
But first I would have to change trains at Shipley, where I took these pictures.
Note.
- Shipley station is built in the middle of a triangular junction.
- It has two bridges.
- The station appears to have been improved greatly in recent years.
- The toilets are some of the best, I’ve seen in a railway station in England.
There are many worse stations to change trains.
From Shipley, I was a passenger in a very crowded Class 168 British Rail-era train.
But I did manage to take these pictures.
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