johnnychips
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There haven’t been many petty geographical arguments on the forum recently, so I thought I would start a thread that will create them.
Today it was announced that TPE are considering through Cleethorpes to Liverpool services in the future. This would be a coast-to-coast service. Are there any examples of current coast-to-coast services?
When it comes to the question of ’which places are on the coast?’ you have the thorny problem of tidal river estuaries. Sometimes the tide goes inland for miles, so I would arbitrarily propose that a place on a river lower than the last bridging point could be considered coastal. So Avonmouth is coastal, Bristol isn’t; Hull is coastal but Goole isn’t. London isn’t. No doubt everybody will forget this after five or so posts.
The other problem is that it is hard to define where one coast starts and another ends. The original is clearly fine. On the other hand, Bridlington to Scarborough is on the same coast and not what I had in mind.
Looking forward to your answers.
There haven’t been many petty geographical arguments on the forum recently, so I thought I would start a thread that will create them.
Today it was announced that TPE are considering through Cleethorpes to Liverpool services in the future. This would be a coast-to-coast service. Are there any examples of current coast-to-coast services?
When it comes to the question of ’which places are on the coast?’ you have the thorny problem of tidal river estuaries. Sometimes the tide goes inland for miles, so I would arbitrarily propose that a place on a river lower than the last bridging point could be considered coastal. So Avonmouth is coastal, Bristol isn’t; Hull is coastal but Goole isn’t. London isn’t. No doubt everybody will forget this after five or so posts.
The other problem is that it is hard to define where one coast starts and another ends. The original is clearly fine. On the other hand, Bridlington to Scarborough is on the same coast and not what I had in mind.
Looking forward to your answers.
) - but I do know that Liverpool docks are not too far off water level & that the Kingsway Tunnel goes under the water. Good question though - I’d always considered Bristol as fairly coastal.
