WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG: The most ambitious Timetable Challenge yet to Newcastle and Carlisle.

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• BR

  @brianmorrison9168 · 3 years ago

  Great video .. enjoyable to watch. Two points though ..<br>(1)You were initially heading to North Shileds on the Tyne &amp; Wear Metro but got off at West Jesmond. If you had stayed on the same train, it was only 14 more stops to North Shields, but it was actually longer (16 stops) going back via Newcastle Central to South Shields<br>(2)If you take the ferry from South Shields to North Shields, there&apos;s a free bus from near the ferry landing up to the Metro Station, meaning you don&apos;t have to walk up that steep hill.<br>Regards from Whitley Bay

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• JO

  @JoshDarke · 11 months ago

  Did Newcastle myself very recently and your crucial mistake after the ferry into North Shields was not stopping off for fish and chips in Tynemouth and a walk down to the beatiful beach.<br><br>You travelled all that way to walking distance of Tynemouth, had Greggs at Newcastle train station and fish and chips in Carlisle.<br><br>Love the videos though

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• BL

  @Blakeygamingofficial · 1 year ago

  Fun fact Scott, you could’ve used transpennine to Berwick then LNER to Newcastle or northern

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• SC

  @scottmartin455 · 4 years ago

  Your face at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c78tAwSvIIQ&amp;t=580">9:40</a> is priceless!

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• AL

  @alanchandler254 · 10 months ago

  Well done Scott, makes one feel tired just watching you. Wouldn’t dare do a challenge like that locally to me, (SE England) trains and buses are always being cancelled or routes curtailed.

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• RH

  @rhodrage · 3 years ago

  Public transport that runs after 6 is always amazing to me. Living in stoke its a foreign concept.

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• JA

  @janettesinclair6279 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Memories for me - my uncle adopted a rescue dog that was found going back and forth on the ferry between North and South Shields. &nbsp;What an epic challenge to make all these misc connections, Scott. You are certainly a real timetable junkie. &nbsp;The Avanti train is wonderful!

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• ST

  @stuartnicholson1478 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m not sure why the County Council had a timetable up where you were standing for the Carlisle to Lockerbie bus, but you are meant to pick the bus up either at the &apos;country services&apos; stand at the Courts (the bottom one, just outside the station) or at the market at the other end of the city centre. It is one of those split bus services to meet the law on how long a stage carriage service can be, so it ends at Gretna then continues on the same bus but technically a different journey from Gretna to Lockerbie. Cumbria has lots of those and the publicity is often confusing. Plan B would have been the 1816 X95 to Galashiels for Edinburgh, or the 1810 service 79 to Dumfries direct. There were rail replacement coaches from Lockerbie for every timetabled train, so they were running until very late, after 2200. There was no real danger of getting stranded at Carlisle or Lockerbie. I have now checked, the timetable at The Courts does state that 382 route buses go to Lockerbie, the one at Devonshire Street is listing ALL buses which go VIA gretna (very few of which terminate there).

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• KE

  @kevinbrewis6014 · 4 years ago

  That signal box looked like Blaydon, 1 mile from my house.

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• FE

  @Fent1386 · 4 years ago

  Phew, if you ever get the chance try this in Japan, you’ll be mesmerised how punctual everything is

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• HO

  @holygooff · 3 years ago

  Wow, I didn&apos;t know that Newcastle had a metro. Amazing!

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• MA

  @maryerlich6819 · 4 months ago

  So pleased I am not the only person to get on the wrong train! Once I ended up in Blackpool instead of Glasgow when travelling from Preston Station!