You don't know how lucky you are. We had to drive to Heybridge from Hertfordshire. This meant going through connurbations at Barnet, Waltham Cross, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Epping, Chipping Ongar and Chelmsford. It might be two and a half hours or it might be four, with two children in the back of a car with no air-conditioning. Cue violins.
This thread is turning into a land cruise with all its mentions of motor flows and traffic hold(up) points.
Dont forget that bloody level crossing. Some of those goods trains take minutes to clear!
Join Haven Ports Yacht Club - I hear the food is pretty good now (not tried it myself!)
That’s because they have doubled the number of trains because they have put in a passing loop, I believe.
There always was a passing-loop, so far as I remember. I last took the line circa 1972, and I'm sure we passed another train at the mid-point. When I say I'm sure, I mean that I sort of recall it. We had a tear in the genny from the radar reflector and I had to take the sail to Ipswich tp be repaired, for 5/-.
The Outlook in Fox`s Marina, a short trip up the river
its all down to exporting mt containers from Felixstowe
The Alex was good a few years ago when we last went there. When I first went, it was about 1965 and it was very old-fashioned but cosy and we would go for fish & chips with my in-laws.
A lovely spot to pick up a mooring, but no shore facilities!
