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Has there been any progress on looking for cheap accomodation in the Bradford area? Or perhaps I ought to get off of fat lazy ar*e and do it myself

OK, I got off my arse and found this - http://room4u.org.uk/hotels/bradford/index.asp - The Victoria Hotel could do a single room from £36 per night, which seems pretty reasonable to me.

Unless anyone else can do any better, I think I might just book myself in there

I've never been inside the Victoria, but it looks very nice from the outside, and it's absolutely perfectly placed. It's right next to the station and the pub where we're meeting, and within sight of the NMPFT.

Sounds good to me Ormy, we'll just wait for the Captain to post the train times I can't stop over we'll be rehearsing the next day

Waiting to see where others are staying - not being lazy; it'd be nice to have a bunch of us together.

Okay, here are some train times. Health warning - these are the schedules that the trains are currently planned to follow. When the timetable is published it is possible they may vary by a couple of minutes from what I am posting here. It's a pretty good guide, though. If somebody gives me an e-kick, I'll do an update towards the last week in September. I don't know how this will line up on screen, I'm sure you can work it out.

Man Vic dep 1023 1048 1123 1148
Bradford arr 1126 1155 1226 1256

Bradford dep 2055 2155 2255
Man Vic arr 2204 2304 2359

So, er, the Victoria Hotel everyone?

Don't worry, I'll find the train times from Middlesbrough myself.

Right, I'm booked into the Victoria Hotel for Friday & Saturday nights.

Lord knows what time I'll arrive in Bradford, because as a part of the journey I'll have to negotiate the M25 at about half five on a Friday afternoon. Mmmm... fun

C'mon where're you all staying? See, I've got a bit of a choice now - I could head back to Leeds to see people, but then if we're all up in the same hotel that'd be . More expensive, though.

P.S. Put me down as a definite attendee.

Glad to hear it, Baggy!

I'm looking likely at least for the afternoon activities.

I knew you'd want to see 'Bugs! 3D'

It does depend on whether I'm well enough but Bugs! is quite an incentive .

I better gt looking at this, see how plausible traveling up by train is on the day of the meet that hotel sounds good, If I can get organised I'll likely go for that : does it have a bar?

Right, rail ticket booked - a day return from Leeds, so I'm not stopping oernight. Is the cut off point for a day ticket midnight? I'd probably not want to stay too late anyhow.

Amy - be good to see you. Can I have my back, please?

Aha - 'nother train question. If you look at your tickets they will be marked valid on date shown, which would indicate that you can't go back after midnight on the same day. That said I work with timetables, not tickets - I'll ask the right people and get you an answer tomorrow, Bagpuss.

I've traveled back before, after midnight, on a 'one day' type rail ticket, never seemed a problem

Yes, I've found that as well. The 'day return' ticket from Brighton to London allows you to leave London up until about 4am the next morning. Very useful indeed...


...although maybe not that useful in the current context

Perhaps you can do it, then - it's not something I've ever tried. I'll get a definitive answer tomozz.