(06 Apr 2014, 12:51 pm)aureolin wrote Sounds like another cracking day out. Look forward to the photos. Did you find you had enough time? Too much time? Not enough time?
I've just booked tickets during the Easter week, but I'm going to head up on the 1042 East Coast and back on the 1830. It should still give me over 5½ hours of usable time.
I felt I had too much time to be honest, 9 Hours was quite a long day for me although it did fly over, I didn't get chance to sample the 7900H which I am quite guttered about, I'll blame that on the Problematic B5TL and I felt was a wasted journey up to Hunters Tryst and back to The Mound on the 27, If I had known there was Problems with it beforehand I would went down to Easter Road or Clermiston which had planned.
But an Hour round trip on the 22/27 severely reduced my time limits for going to other spots I had planned to go to, this was further reduced when I did see the B5TL in the Afternoon and decided to wait an Hour at The Mound for it to come back from Hunters Tryst, So in reality 2/3 Hours were wasted in chasing down the B5TL, That was the only down points to my Day really, otherwise I had a Fantastic time.
As for the Quiet Coach, going up there only me and a few people sitting on table seats in the row in front of where I was sitting, as for going back it was packed but thankfully no one was sitting next to me on both journeys.