Timeline for Fastest way to travel between London and Sheffield by train or airplane
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| Jun 29, 2018 at 9:56 | comment | added | alephzero | @DaveRose "ideally should have an airport" - There use to be one, but it was too small to be viable, and there isn't enough available flat land to build a replacement. In its last year of operation it served just 13,000 passengers. The closure was pretty inevitable, as its runway was too short for low-cost airlines' fleets to use it, and there was no room to extend it - and nearby Doncaster (a former RAF base) has plenty of room for expansion and currently about 100 times more passengers than Sheffield ever had. London City has a similar runway, but of course a much bigger customer base. | |
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| Jul 19, 2014 at 18:30 | comment | added | Richard Gadsden | Sheffield has relatively poor rail service because it's on the slowest of the three main north-south rail lines in England. Doncaster, a smaller town 20 miles east of Sheffield, has non-stop trains to London in 1h30, ie averaging about 100MPH, because it's on the much faster ECML. Only four such a day, but the regular service (which has several intermediate stops between Doncaster and London) is still under 1h45. Doncaster is actually slightly further from London than Sheffield. Sheffield is very poorly served by rail compared to other cities of its size in the UK. | |
| Jul 19, 2014 at 6:08 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTravel/status/490377595096399873 | ||
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| Jul 17, 2014 at 18:13 | comment | added | Digital Trauma | Bear in mind that other than the Eurostar, there is currently no "High Speed Rail" in the UK. Average speed of 75MPH seems pretty reasonable for "normal speed rail". Its been more than 10 years since I did this journey regularly, so can't comment on reliability these days. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 17:52 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | Sheffield's the 46th biggest city in the EU according to Wikipedia. I was going to disagree with "one of the biggest cities in the EU" but actually, by population it's between Copenhagen and Lisbon, so, fair enough! | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 17:22 | comment | added | David Richerby | A flight is never going to be faster than a 2hr train journey since, in practical terms, you need to be at the airport at least an hour before your flight leaves, but arriving at the railway station 15 minutes before the train leaves is more than enough. By the time you've added half an hour getting to and from out-of-town airports to each end of your journey, you've already spent more time than the train journey would have taken. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 10:31 | answer | added | Richard Gadsden | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 10:21 | answer | added | Aditya Somani | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 10:14 | comment | added | Aditya Somani | @DaveRose 150 miles is too less to be traveled by flight. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 10:00 | comment | added | o-0 | @AakashM Less than two hours by train, or 1 hour by airplane. Sheffield is one of the biggest cities in EU, so ideally should have an airport so I can travel from London. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 9:54 | comment | added | AakashM | Well it is over 150 miles. How long were you expecting it to take? | |
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