HORNCHURCH CONVOY

[Eastside Urchin]

To Bideford

Meet at 6.15am at the Brentwood Hotel

This is just past the petrol station

We will leave at 6.30 or earlier if everyone is there

[I am Spartacus]

I would have made the meeting point the other side of the bridge. No chance of getting seperated then.

[Eastside Urchin]

Don't do Kent

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

So what route are you taking Rob? And have you done your homework regarding all roadworks/blackspots n'stuff??

[Eastside Urchin]

I am taking the M25 north onto the M4 all the way to the M5 then south for an hour or so ontothe A361 to Barnstaple,onto the A39 into bideford

 

If I was travelling an hour or so later I may think about trees route but it is a route that is better in the summer as the motorways get clogged silly,this time of year it will be just crashes that cause problems not volume of traffic

[Eastside Urchin]

There are various roadworks on the m25/m4/m5 but the highways agency are saying that they are only problematic at peak periods,saturday morning is usually pretty quiet roadwise.

especially on the M25 at half 6 in the morning.

The M4 has a few roadworks going west but these mainly appear to be on slip roads coming off the motorway,and again will not be a problem unless there is a crash in between the roadworks,M5 is the same but looks pretty quiet on the stretch we need to go on.

If anything does turn up on the motorway and we hear about it in time we will have enough time to take a detour

[Fisherman's Friend]

I trust your knowledge when it comes to driving...we will be following you shame we cant get walkie talkies.

 

 

[Eastside Urchin]

Problem with driving is you can never trust the roads but the motorway option

on a Saturday is the best especially early on,personally I don't see too much benefit of the A303 which has large stretches of single carriageway which if you get a crash on you can get stuck for hours,at least with a motorway unless it's a severe crash you can usually get past it or at least you get warned in advance

[I am Spartacus]

I trust your knowledge when it comes to driving...we will be following you shame we cant get walkie talkies.

 

 

 

 

Is that a I see on everyone's roof.

[serge]

thats a big ten four ive got my cab over pete with a reefer on let them urchins roll, convoy,

[Eastside Urchin]

Seconds on the reefer

[Eastside Urchin]

So who is coming on the rubber duck urchin convoy then

Cars do far

 

Mine

Dans

Sir Gary

Hx o

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

Is this really all we can muster? Sad innit!!

[Eastside Urchin]

People seem to be going different ways and times,would think there would be another couple of cars joining the convoy at least

[SEVEN TEARS BOY]

If Mr P Rivers can take time out from his day job in Southern Cal, he'll be training it down with Derek and Ian and getting the coach back with them, so no for me R.

 

I might let you have a Betty Stogs though.

[Hornchurch "O"]

I can give lifts to 2 people who are coming back on the coach.

see Travel thread

[serge]

i think instead of convoy in london we should meet neerer the ground then convoy horns and malicious chanting to wake the dead as if the cornish are invading

[Eastside Urchin]

We can do that all the way down the M4 & M5 getting plenty of practice

By the time we get there baby Isla will be ready for a rumble