On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Graham Harrison wrote:

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On 29 Nov, 10:00, "Sam" wrote:

Due to my partner's working commitments it looks like we will be
moving from London to the Stafford area

Has anyone experience of commuting from Stafford to EUS ? Needing to
arrive into EUS about 0900 and leaving at 1700 ish, chances of getting
seats, frequency of delays etc etc ?

All the way from Stafford to London every day! Rather you than me!

Many years ago (mid/late 70s) I worked in a travel agency in Fleet
Street. Customer came in and I needed his address which he gave me as
somewhere near Coventry. When I asked if he was just in London for the
day he said "no" and explained that he had found that the season fare
from Coventry was less than somewhere like Brighton or Worthing. He
also pointed out that Coventry took no longer than Brighton and plenty
of people did that journey.

Much the same arguement (timewise, don't know about the fares) can be made
for Stafford versus plenty of South Coast "commuter" towns where nobody
would bat an eyelid.

Even a few places inside London - plenty of places on the southern and
eastern side of zone 6 take an hour to get to Euston from.

tom

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HI DERE WAHT IS IT MADE

In message , at
19:03:21 on Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Tom Anderson
remarked:
Even a few places inside London - plenty of places on the southern and
eastern side of zone 6 take an hour to get to Euston from.

Up with which I would not put.
--
Roland Perry

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 19:03:21
on Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Tom Anderson remarked:

Even a few places inside London - plenty of places on the southern and
eastern side of zone 6 take an hour to get to Euston from.

Up with which I would not put.

I KNEW someone was going to say that! Nine minutes is record time, i
think.

Here's what people's hero Geoffrey Pullum (and sideick Benjamin Zimmer)
has to say about it:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001702.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001715.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/002670.html

tom

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The Gospel is enlightened in interesting ways by reading Beowulf and The
Hobbit while listening to Radiohead's Hail to the Thief. To kill a dragon
(i.e. Serpent, Smaug, Wolf at the Door) you need 12 (disciples/dwarves)
plus one thief (burglar, Hail to the Thief/King/thief in the night),
making Christ/Bilbo the 13th Thief. -- Remy Wilkins

On Nov 29, 7:12 pm, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
19:03:21 on Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Tom Anderson
remarked:

Even a few places inside London - plenty of places on the southern and
eastern side of zone 6 take an hour to get to Euston from.

Up with which I would not put.

Though presumably not many people who commute therefrom actually work
near Euston, and can probably walk to their offices from the Southern
termini... (Yes, I know the original poster was asking about Stafford
to Euston.)

On Nov 29 2007, 10:33*pm, Rupert Candy wrote:
On Nov 29, 7:12 pm, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at
19:03:21 on Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Tom Anderson
remarked:

Even a few places inside London - plenty of places on the southern and
eastern side of zone 6 take an hour to get to Euston from.

Up with which I would not put.

Though presumably not many people who commute therefrom actually work
near Euston, and can probably walk to their offices from the Southern
termini... (Yes, I know the original poster was asking about Stafford
to Euston.)

Funnily enough, I have had a couple of jobs near termini, including
Euston for years, which I would arrive via the Underground, which most
poeple were travelling the opposite way into, at.