24 Hours from St Pancras - How far can you get by train from London in a day?
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- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2022
- In the difficult second album after #bus24, comes the obvious follow-up, #train24. Starting from London St Pancras, I'm trying to find the furthest you can get, as the crow flies, by train, before the 24 hours is up.
(The links below contain spoilers about where I got to, obviously, in case you want to watch the video first!)
Route map: www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/i...
Timetable: politic_animal/st...
Tickets and costs politic_animal/st...
The Twitter thread for the whole journey is here / 1509035606067888129
If you'd like to hear me talking about the journey on Canadian radio: www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/...
Read about it in the Daily Mail: www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...
The Times www.thetimes.co.uk/article/th...
The Independent www.indy100.com/viral/viral-t...
In 'Geo' (French) www.geo.fr/voyage/quelle-est-...
Or in Expressen (Swedish) www.expressen.se/allt-om-reso...
Without question one the most enjoyable 37mins and 46secs I have ever spent on RUclips. Thank you, Great commentary and anecdotes and a great journey. I am already planning our next European rail journey which I suspect will involve France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.
Thank you very much!
What Gary said, plus great music. I too am now looking up interrail and sleeper options.
I heartily agree...laying here in SE Alaska but a Londoner at heart!
When I saw the opening line on your comment I went, hmmm!. But being a keen traveler watched out of curiosity. I can only echo your sentiments. Absolutely marvelous, beguiling with added element of an excellent musical accompaniment and fascination as to how far you could travel in the time. Looks like the challenge is out to break 2000 km. Is that even possible. Thank you Turtle. You have a fan.
Totally agree, a very welcome discovery!
For our 25th Wedding Anniversary in 2019, my wife and I decided we'd take a 3 week train tour in Europe using Interrail passes. Travelling from Nottingham we stayed in Bruges, Utrecht, Hamburg, Berlin, Plzen and Frankfurt before making out way back to England. Such an amazing trip visiting many beautiful places. Wished we'd VLOG'd it.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that the longest uninterrupted passenger train journey in the world is between Moscow and Pyongyang. We are honored to have this title.
How welcome you are on that train is debatable though
Your countries have so much in common. Future of economy, forms of government, friends in the world, similar human rights. Enjoy your friendship Moscow and Pyongyang.
lol
I'm going to steal a thought from Karl Pilkington and ask what's so great about the longest train ride in the world? Nobody cheers about having the longest health care wait in the world, or the longest bread line in the world, although Russia and North Korea could probably make the top two in both cases.
Having the longest train journey in the world means you need faster trains.
How are you already on every video I watch glorious leader?
"24 Hours from St Pancras - How far can you get by train from London in a day?" At one time as far a Bedford on a knackered class 127 DMU.
An outstanding piece of work.
The highest production values enhance the well chosen and presented content.
Many thanks.
Thank you so much!
You must have put a huge amount of work into making this excellent idea look as easy and relaxing as a trip on the Orient Express...not that I've been on it! Thank you! The maps dropped in regularly were very helpful and added to the journey, music was great as well. Your commentary is just great.
Agree with much of what you say except the last comment. Narrator's voice is far too monotonic and some place-name pronunciations leave a lot to be desired.
Really enjoyed this video, keep up the great work and thank you!!
Absolutely brilliant! What a quality piece of work. Thank you for livening up my day.
This is only the 2nd video I have watched by you, and it is amazing!
informative, inspiring and erudite. Absolutely loved watching this and look forward to future content.
A brilliant idea, instructively and entertainingly narrated!
I love this. I've just discovered your channel and am now hooked!
Really enjoyed the historical commentary throughout. Thank you!
Fantastic video of a fantastic trip. Thank you for sharing!
Something about this video was so comforting i love it. Thank you :)
This video is SO much fun. I loved this. Thank you
What a great video. I'm missing my continental rail journeys through a variety of reasons, but this helped to bring it all back.
I followed your journey live on Twitter but this video is really interesting and amazing, thanks for putting this up and good for me I finally got here. I'll definitely check your #bus24 video as well, and whatever else you've done apart from these. :)
Thanks and great stuff!
Really enjoyed sharing your journey and now looking forward even more to my train ride to Stuttgart next week. Cheers!
What a fascinating journey. Thank you for posting such an entertaining video 👏🚞
Thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking for a future holiday. Thanks
Lovely video. Poetically narrated and so interesting. Thanks for putting the time in to make it!
I followed your journey live on twitter and I didn't realise you were making a video. Really enjoyable to watch.
A fantastic video. Really enjoyed it. 🙂
This is a fantastic video, very relaxing watch. It has also confirmed that I really should go interailing as soon as I can afford it!
What a terrific little film. Reminded me fondly of interrailing through Greece and Italy back in 1982 sleeping in train corridors.
A wonderfully documented journey. Love the facts and time displays, not to mention your actual journey. Great stuff 👍🏾
This is a beautiful and evocative piece of film making. Well done. Many thanks
Two videos, and the bar is high. Can't wait for the third. *Please* keep up the good work!
An excellent video with excellent content again. I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with next...
Just discovered your channel and watched both films. Very enjoyable, thank you. Hope you do more. Cheers Rob
Thoroughly enjoyed this. A wonderful mix of history, train spotting, geography and the joy of travel for the sake of travel. Thank you
Brilliant. Well narrated with excellent knowledge of local geography/history
Excellent, thanks for a great virtual journey. 🚞
Brilliant! I loved this video - great concept, well produced, good soundtrack and intelligent commentary. Thank you! You have a new subscriber.
Thank you!
An excellent production and after lockdown just makes me want to get back on the rails on mainland Europe. Thank you for putting it all together.
Love it, nice touch at the end with the donation too. Also a big fan of the delivery of the quarry line
Some journey mate 👏. Would love to see more as this is quality ✅
Another outstanding and enjoyable video! Thank you. In 2018 I went from Innsbruck to London in one day - early morning to mid evening. I thought that was impressive enough!
Brilliant video really enjoyed the trip !
Loved watching this! Great idea and well presented video. Truly amazing how far you can get from London on a train in 24 hours.
Fantastic video ! Thank you. Poetic, evocative and informative. Two of my best holidays were inter-railing in the late 80s/early 90s - one trip to Italy, the other to Spain & Portugal, wonderful times.
Hugely entertaining! Many thanks for taking the time and effort to make this
Delighted you enjoyed it!
Excellent video, thank you very much, I never thought it can be done in 24 hours, I have to try it this coming summer, cheers.
A superb example of RUclips travel videos. You have made it clear that wonderful travel opportunities in Europe are available to all including those who are disabled. Love your musical tastes. Thank you.
A really good travel video, perfectly narrated and edited. I have now become a subscriber. ❤
Thank you!
Great video, narration, videography and sense of a real travel experience through all of those amazing locations!
Thank you v much!
Wonderful! I was pleasantly surprised to see how much of my regular travel routes you've included (London (I'm an ex-Londoner) - Paris - Strasbourg (home) - Basel - Zürich (work) ) and even trip to Milano which I'm planning to do eventually. And after seeing your video - maybe even Rome!
What a wonderful journey - great video of the challenge - well done.
Thank you!
That was a frankly astounding and surprising jaunt! Very well done on the journey, and entertaining us with facts and thoughts on it.
You inspired me to look up how long it would take to get to Morocco, i.e. outside Europe and into Africa, and it would take about 2 days, depending on how deep I want to go.
How absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
An excellent production Thank you
Outstanding. Really enjoyed this. Subscribed.
Thank you very much!
I've watched this 5 times now and it's still a brilliant watch. A wonderful and engaging video.
Blimey, that is commitment. You’ve heard my voice more than most of my family in that period. But really pleased you have enjoyed it!
A real gem. Great little video; great photography, some interesting facts and some nice music used sparingly. I look forward to seeing some more from the Travelling Turtle.
Fantastic...well done. Very entertaining.
Not sure how I discovered you, but so glad I did. One of the most relaxing, interesting and absolutely enjoyable videos I've ever seen on the RUclipss. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Loved this video. Will be booking some of these train journeys in the near future thanks to you.
I’ll be sure to ask for my commission 😉
What a great video! Loved the commentary, the music, the excitement of train travel with an amazing challenge.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Your music choices are just superb! Thank you for this lovely video. I kept using Shazam to discover what the tunes were.
Give that man his own series! Honestly, that was such a good video - I loved being able to go on the adventure with you and turtle. It brought back fond memories of my cycle around Lake Constance/Bodensee, which was my first experience of using the fantastic Swiss express trains and of not knowing which language I should speak!
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed!
What a fine video, I thouroughly enjoyed that. Thank you for the entertainment and inspiration!
Thank you!
That was amazing!! I’m definitely going to get an interrail pass and also go to Spain and everywhere! In one week! Thank you.
Just discovered your channel, really enjoyed the journey and your music selection was an enhancement. Just about to subscribe.
Thank you very much!
Fabulous inspiring video. Terrific, fascinating and well researched narration. Thank you so much for making this extraordinary piece of work.
Thank you!
I found it 😊 absolutely brilliant what Ur doing I enjoyed the bus tour so much and this is same hi quality 😊thanku sir
Great film with excellent musical accompaniment. Thank you.
Excellent video, thoroughly enjoyed it. Great concept, look forward to more videos in the near future 👍🙂 Off to watch #bus24 now 👍
I found this by accident but what a great video made better by the brilliant comments you make to accompany the video. You have a new subscriber, thanks
Thank you!
What a superb video (and adventure), just like all your vlogs have been to date.
Your commentary is spot on, with a great use of video and with complimentary music. I genuinely cannot wait for your next upload
Thank you! Very glad you enjoyed it.
The most immersive and enjoyable RUclips experience I've had in a long time. Excellent work!
Thank you!
A great video, picking up where the last left off, and the edit of voice and music spot on too.
Even more poetic and as informative as #bus24
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
This was an absolutely brilliant video....firstly for the degree of planning 👏 secondly for how you edited and narrated it. What a stunning achievement!
Thank you!
Fantastic viewing. One of the better videos I have watched in quite some time. I have shared.
Brilliant film, ,enjoyed every last second
This is fantastic. I really appreciate the amount of research that you put into this, your writing, sense of adventure, and the soundtrack you chose. Thank you for this delightful history lesson.
Thank you, that is so kind. Delighted you enjoyed it.
Well i loved this, i never reckoned youd be there, more eastern europe i was thinking. Great Video!
I wanted to write down just how much I have enjoyed this and the bus video i stumbled across today. Love the content, well presented/edited, fantastic commentary (in terms of well-educated insights, interesting turn of phrase and clear voice!), love the little turtle that comes with you, I adore your impeccable taste in classical music! Hope theres more stuff like this to come in the future.
Thank you so much!
Bravo! Fascinating video. Informative and witty commentary and well chosen music.
Thank you!
Brilliant trip, love the music. Thanks
Congratulations on an excellent enjoyable video and a wonderfully well planned and researched adventure. Brilliant!
Thank you very much!
Absolutely brilliant stuff well done
That was exhausting and i was only watching! Many congratulations on a superb production just crammed full of facts, only a Brit could have the love of history/geography/topography/language/photography/timeliness/mechanics so thank you for sharing with us!
Just wonderful. Thank you.
This was great, and the historic commentary was an added bonus!
Brilliant journey and very nice video, Bravo!
Thank you!
Jo, I watched this video and the one you made about 24 hours by bus from London, on the same evening.
Excellent stuff, great editing and commentary, and inspiring too.
The fact my wife got taken in by the railway video is testament to your interesting content.
Great stuff!
Thank you!
Really enjoyed that, thank you!
I must say, having never seen or heard from this channel before, I am amazed. What an amazingly well produced and planned out video. All I have left to say is: Congratulations and carry on like this, only the best can follow! All I would say is a cost/planning breakdown would be very intersting to see.
Thank you so much! There are links to posts on costs and the timetable in the description.
Just discovered this last night and thoroughly enjoyed watching it. A super challenge and I really like your Mondaine watch. 😊
Thank you!
congratulations on doing the journey under 24 hours loved your video it sort of remind me of the the very first time i ever went to lake garda italy i started the journey at st pancras station london on the euro star to -gard de nord paris -then tgv train to Chambéry france stopped the night in nice hotel at Chambéry then next morning onto milan by italian train and then a slower train to lake garda lovely trip and holiday
These are really good. I skipped through the St Pancras one but actually went back and watched it properly after watching the bus one and I realised that you dont spend all your time waffling and do indeed impart very good info along the way. And edited perfectly.
Thank you! I do try to keep waffling limited…
Lovely video, thank you so much. Reminds of the good old days when there were direct trains from Germany to southern Italy. I took an overnight train from Stuttgart to Lecce in 1987. Not very comfortable, as we only booked seats. But what a spectacular trip.
Watched this many times, your turn of poetic phrase is always a joy! Nice going on this trip
Thank you very much!
Very well written and well presented !
Fantastic trip and great work.
Thanks for that. Great journey and very interesting. Thoroughly enjoyed the music especially the Oompah band. We live in Spain and our nearest station is almost an hour away by car and there are only three trains per day making the four hour journey to Madrid from where one can get away to the rest of the world.
This was excellent! Loved the facts you mentioned throughout. Looking forward to seeing the turtle’s future journeys ☺️🐢
Thank you so much for a lovely relaxing trip absolutely beautiful sites , so glad I have found you , made me less stressed Xx
Delighted to hear it, thank you!
Can't agree more with Gary H. Sipping my coffee, I was transfixed as you made your way through Europe. The whole film was beautifully described and the combination of the music and history somehow squeezed 24hrs into 37 mins perfectly. Having done about 1/2 of those routes, it was particularly interesting to watch and I now can't wait to plan my next trip. Thank you
Great fun, thank you. We're looking forward to our 2020 trip to Italy by train this summer, all being well!
You'll enjoy it. I saw Italy by train back in 2009. It was a lot of fun.