Do you travel up or down

[Trufflehound]

Don't you always travel "up" to the capital, regardless of where you are in relation to it?

When I go to London I usually fly into Stansted, so I would have to travel "down" at some point, otherwise the plane could never land...

 

[London Calling]

i love going down to Brighton and getting up at north

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

When I go to London I usually fly into Stansted, so I would have to travel "down" at some point, otherwise the plane could never land...

You would also need to go UP at some point as well

 

[Trufflehound]

You would also need to go UP at some point as well

True, but for most of the trip I'm just cruising...










Or maybe that should have been posted on the Brokeback Mountain thread...

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I live in Herts and go down to Brighton, over to Wales, up to Sheffield and into London.

 

[Uncle C]

I live in Herts and go down to Brighton, over to Wales, up to Sheffield and into London.

Into London is good

 

[bailey]

Isn't there a thing on the railways where the lines are called up (towards London) and down (away from London)?

And.... here's a useless bit of trivia:

The London Underground because it was financed by the Americans doesn't use the traditional British up/down system and instead has North, South, East, West.

And...even more....that's the reason why they always call the trains "cars". "Move right down inside of the cars"

 

[desprateseagull]

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would make Herts the lowest point in England (actually not a bad concusion ).
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concusion? did you trip over? lol

 

[The Oldman]

!!!!! Nerd Alert !!!!!


In railway terms all lines to London have always been "UP" and away from London "DOWN".

For me I have to go UP to the A259 and then everything is the North Country. Can never understand why road signs above the A259 do not say "The North" !

 

[RexCathedra]

I live in Maine, which is known as Down East.

The prevailing winds meant that travel SW, to Boston, was 'uphill', with much tacking or wearing, while the return trip NE to Maine was often done on one long leg, running before the wind, 'downhill'.

The name stuck even after the railroads came.

 

[Yorkie]

People up north go down to London and the south.
People in the south go up to London and the north.

What the Midlanders do is their own business.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

People in Eastenders go up West. What's that all about?

 

[RexCathedra]

People in Eastenders go up West. What's that all about?

Social climbing?

 

[33057 Seagull]

!!!!! Nerd Alert !!!!!


In railway terms all lines to London have always been "UP" and away from London "DOWN".

For me I have to go UP to the A259 and then everything is the North Country. Can never understand why road signs above the A259 do not say "The North" !

Dothing the anorak you are absolutely correct.

'Up' = The running line to or in the general direction of London, or (less usually) of the companies headquarters (going back to pre nationalisation days), or, for lines wholly in Scotland, of Edinburgh, and on the (erstwhile) Taff Vale Railway up from the South Wales coast to inland destinations, the other direction being known as 'Down'.

These terms were in actual fact taken over from road coaching parlance.

 

[Halftime Oranges]

I go DOWN on my wife, but I also go UP her

Does that help?

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Wherever you are in the country, you go UP to London.

 

[London Calling]

People in Eastenders go up West. What's that all about?

Its made up script writers bollocks, we still hav'ent heard an eastie say it yet!

Plus we amuse ourselves with East Enders increasing references to Dalston (where I live) for clubs etc and now I believe with Dalston Ali?