Mileage Competition 2008

[me123]

...only insult people if they have more mileage than you.

YAY, I can insult almost everyone :-P

 

[1D53]

YAY, I can insult almost everyone :-P

Shut up Mr Notmanymiles

 

[me123]

Believe it or not, I've probably done more miles so far this year than in any other year hock:*

 

[djw1981]

You are however only about 17/18.......

 

[me123]

Yes. I am 17 and until Friday I spend 7 hours day in school, where I take the school bus or occasionally somone gives me a lift. My train trave; is limited to occassional trips into Glasgow ATM, but I was lucky to have a lot of reasons to go North in February, where I traveled about 850 miles out of my current 1350ish total hock:

 

[djw1981]

My point being not many under 17's would be off roaming the country on their own for hundreds of miles for reasons of time and cost, so don't feel bad.

 

[Gizmogle]

I'm 17

 

[Aureol]

Ditto

 

[will1337]

1235 miles since 7th April excluding LUL, have forgotten/lost before then.

 

[Gizmogle]

Added you to the board Will.

My mileage should be at 7,737 by tonight

 

[will1337]

Thanks Gizmogle, I wish I had a PRIV

 

[Gizmogle]

7,737 miles for me.

 

[me123]

I'm 17

You have a priv :razz:

 

[Techniquest]

Congrats 156401 for getting over the magical thou.

I see I'm in 9th place, which tempts me to go to Trowbridge tomorrow by train and not by bus. Hmm...

I suspect there's a few people on here doing the HST to Minehead on Saturday, would anyone happen to know mileage figures for Westbury to Minehead via Bristol? I'm guessing it's over 100 miles, but would anyone have a more accurate number?

 

[TDK]

I covered over 4000 miles when road learing and thousends more driving does that count, i have driven 1200 over the last 7 days

 

[Aureol]

...would anyone happen to know mileage figures for Westbury to Minehead via Bristol? I'm guessing it's over 100 miles, but would anyone have a more accurate number?

Why not just use that thing called a mileage calculator in the very first post of this thread?
It's very easy to use...

 

[Jim]

Why not just use that thing called a mileage calculator in the very first post of this thread?
It's very easy to use...

Because I doubt Minehead is on there, as it is NOT a NR ticketing station :roll:

 

[voyagerdude220]

My point being not many under 17's would be off roaming the country on their own for hundreds of miles for reasons of time and cost, so don't feel bad.

And i'm not even that, hence the fact that I don't have the ability to cover as many miles in a day away from School, because of the fact I have limited "bases" , and more importantly- I'd have to drive, or get a taxi to/from the nearest mainline station to me, to fully utilize very early departures, and very late arrivals.

I can't put into words the great feeling of being on a Pendo [FC of course] at around 8 in the morning, knowing that i've already covered quite a handsome [like me! ] number of miles that day, whilst I feel that it should be far later in the day, knowing that I can get so much done in a day, when you fully utilize it

 

[Aureol]

Because I doubt Minehead is on there, as it is NOT a NR ticketing station :roll:

Well, Minehead to Bishops Lydeard is what, 26 miles?
Bishops Lydeard to Norton Fitzwarren is about 3 miles, then what, another 3/4 miles to Taunton?
Simple, add all that up and use Taunton

 

[37412]

Well, Minehead to Bishops Lydeard is what, 26 miles?
Bishops Lydeard to Norton Fitzwarren is about 3 miles, then what, another 3/4 miles to Taunton?
Simple, add all that up and use Taunton

Yes but some people like to have an accurate mileage not just a few guesses and fudge it!

As an aside Norton Fizz - M'head is 22.75 (to the nearest 0.25) and Tau - Fizz is 1.25 if I remeber correctly.

 

[Aureol]

Was near enough

 

[1D53]

Do we count miles on preserved railways?

(NYMR Tomorrow )

 

[37412]

Do we count miles on preserved railways?

(NYMR Tomorrow )

I Should hope so as there is a fair rew of mine that are on Pres Lines, Swanage on Saturday :-P

 

[Gizmogle]

I dunno. I've not been counting preserved stuff.

After a trip to the IOW, my mileage is now 7,856

 

[33056]

Well I include anything that runs on rails if I can get the mileage / kilometres for it, including London Underground / DLR and trams. Have been known to resort to measuring with a GPS or on Google Earth where there have been no mile / km posts hock:

PS Will get down to doing some updates when I have finished sorting my pics out for last month.

 

[37412]

Well i'll continue to count pres, after all it is the future now, theres not a lot left of intrest on the mainline and other than the odd 37 tour all my main interset is on the pres front, i've even lost interest in HST's since FGW finished project MTU, always a place I enjoyed valentas in the west country, ECML and MML don't really do it for me!

 

[djw1981]

OOOh you mean I can count the Glasgow subway and T&W Metro as well.... starts thinking..........6 miles to&from uni x5 days, plus extra trips......x15 weeks........equals big number that i can't work out as brain is mashed.

 

[33056]

OOOh you mean I can count the Glasgow subway and T&W Metro as well.... starts thinking..........6 miles to&from uni x5 days, plus extra trips......x15 weeks........equals big number that i can't work out as brain is mashed.

Only six miles!.......I do between 66 and 94 miles a day when going to and from work.

perhaps I had better go into and out of London every time to keep my mileage count up

 

[37412]

I do between 66 and 94 miles a day when going to and from work.

Do they move the office every day then?

 

[djw1981]

Maybe it depends if they get lucky with their partner or not