Salute, London - Sat 22nd April

Started by Leon, 03 January 2017, 09:29:12 PM

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Leon

It's the big one!  With 6000 visitors and 170 traders, this is by far the biggest wargames event in the UK and certainly one to get to if you can! 

All of the info on the show can be found on the Warlords website: http://www.salute.co.uk/salute/salute-2017/ and we'll need your pre-orders sending through to us by Sat 15th please.  Don't leave it too late with this one, as we'll be run off our feet in the run up to the day.
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Sandinista

I will be flying back for this one  :)
and a beer festival the day before  :D

Cheers
Ian

skywalker

I'll be there providing I can get cheap train tickets  :D :D :D

Techno

Quote from: skywalker on 04 January 2017, 12:12:17 PM
cheap train tickets

No.. :-\....Sorry.... :-\.....You'll have to explain that concept.  ;)

Cheers - Phil

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Train. You remember? When you helped that nice Mr Stephenson with his "Rocket". If I recall, you were the one who surveyed for the first ever railway line: Stockton to Leeds. But of course, you turned left instead of right.

Then there was the time that you were working as the railway speed control operative in Russia, leading that train, warning all and sundry it was coming by waving that big red flag. That was about 1917 wasn't it?

Then you were the driver of the Flying Scotsman, made the trip from St Pancras to Launceston in no time flat. Surprised everybody who was expecting to go to Edinbugh.


As for "cheap train tickets", they're mythical, like dragonmen, centaurs and Aztecs.
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Quote from: fsn on 04 January 2017, 12:57:55 PM

As for "cheap train tickets", they're mythical, like dragonmen, centaurs and Aztecs.


Thought that cheap train tickets existed like jam - yesterday and tomorrow !!

Phil has a problem with the concept of trains - they don't exist in his bit of Wales.

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Techno

There's 'a station' in the local village.....about a mile and a half away......

But I don't think it's been open since Dr Beeching made his cuts......Blimey  :o....that's over 50 years ago, isn't it ?

Think the nearest station to me now is just over 10 miles away.

Cheers - Phil

Orcs

Its in the middle of my nights so I will not be going this year to help out Steve Barber.
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Sandinista

No passenger trains north of Auckland, or buses, or motorways... :'(

Dreaming of London's great transport network...

Cheers
Ian

Techno

Quote from: Sandinista on 05 January 2017, 07:02:15 AM
Dreaming of London's great transport network...

Rather you than me, Ian !  ;)

Cheers - Phil

skywalker

The East Coast Main Line (Virgin) sometimes have cheap tickets if you buy then about 12 weeks in advance. Last years Salute I managed to get tickets from Darlington to London Kings Cross and back for £16.50 each way.  :D :D :D :D

Ithoriel

A Senior Railcard and the option to upgrade to First Class for a couple of quid each way made my recent rail trip very affordable.

I find myself wondering if I could do Salute this year by getting a train at silly o'clock, arriving in London in time for the start of the show and leaving in the evening ... and then probably sleeping through the next day :)
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Orcs

Quote from: Sandinista on 05 January 2017, 07:02:15 AM
No passenger trains north of Auckland, or buses, or motorways... :'(

Dreaming of London's great transport network...

Cheers
Ian

Having been there its a small price to pay for the scenery and the views.
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Quote from: skywalker on 05 January 2017, 12:22:21 PM
The East Coast Main Line (Virgin) sometimes have cheap tickets if you buy then about 12 weeks in advance. Last years Salute I managed to get tickets from Darlington to London Kings Cross and back for £16.50 each way.  :D :D :D :D

Was that on the roof?
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Quote from: Sandinista on 05 January 2017, 07:02:15 AM
No passenger trains north of Auckland, or buses, or motorways... :'(

Dreaming of London's great transport network...

Cheers
Ian

As they say you don't appreciate something till it's not there. I have to say I have no dreams of London's transport system, but fortunately not too many nightmares about it these days   ;)
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