I've always wondered about this. Does America just not have a proper rail network or something? If you're going to one city from another city is driving the only option?Originally Posted by ShlupQuack
Also, yeah, London's a city, not a warzone. Unless you feel compelled to walk through an estate with big white headphone on then you probably don't have too much to worry about.
As for trains, you've really never been on a train before?
Here's a step by step guide:
1. Go to ticket office, ask for a ticket to London. If you're coming back the same day, buy a 'return' ticket, otherwise buy a 'single' ticket.
2. Look at the big boards somewhere in the station that display information about the trains. Find a train that is going to London, find out its destination and depature time and go to that platform at roughly that time.
3. Buy a magazine or a book or something.
4. Read said magazine or book or something while you journey.
5. All roads lead to London, so the station you arrive at will almost certainly be the last stop on the line. Eitherway there are signs on the platform you arrive at that will tell you where they are. You'll probably arrive at Paddington/Kings Cross/Victoria/Waterloo or something.
Also you're probably going to have to take another train (GASP) or bus to get to where ever you're going in London, and the London underground is more complicated than the national rail.
You've seriously never been on a train before? That's just weird. I just explained to someone who is apparantly a 19 year old, something I learnt when I was about 4. How do you get about?
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