Rail Lines as Safer Travel Route

[Scythe13]

Hi everyone

Okay, this is something I've been wondering recently, in a Get Home or Bug Out route situation.

Using train tracks as lines across places. They are relatively exposed, but you're unlikely to come across a load of people doing the same thing. On top of that, they're lined with apple trees (people throw the cores out the windows and some of them take root and grow well).

So that's my question.

Obviously, the water way conversation has been put forward lots, so I'm looking at other possibilities. They're relatively flat (no hills to deal with) and can mean going through a hill or mountain, instead of having to spend a few hours going over or around one.

Views, opinion, and the alike, much appreciated!

[NorthernRaider]

Man !!! we have discussed bug out routes in immense depth over the last few months, why do we keep having to go over the same ground yet again. If I remember right you actually joined in the debate about paralleling pylon lines, rail routes, motorways, canals etc, and we discussed how rail lines always follow the flatest possible routes making them ideal for bugging out along providing the power is off if they are electrified or the train are no longer running, we discussed using the LUL network and the power concens over the third rail.
We discussed spending time looking for old abandoned lines on your maps and highlighting thev routes they follow, we discussed using old track beds now converted into cycle paths and the associated risks of ambush involved.

What is going on with the forum is no one bothering to read and download what we have already done to death ?

[Scythe13]

Doesn't ring any bells. Maybe I'm just going senile.

Sorry.

If any admin wants, feel free to delete this thread.

[NorthernRaider]

(9 November 2012, 10:57)Scythe13 Wrote: Doesn't ring any bells. Maybe I'm just going senile.

Sorry.

If any admin wants, feel free to delete this thread.

We all are mon ami, senility gets to all of us, it got me decades ago.
They even claim I got mad cow disease and it adled my brain, but that cant be true because I'm an Aarvark

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Lets keep the thread going to see if any of the new members want to explore it.

[Scythe13]

I can't find the old thread, searched rail and train, and couldn't remember any chats on routes.

[Skean Dhude]

We seem quite happy to go around the houses again on the comms threads. I see no difference with this.

Threads get forgotten, new people come in with opinions and a new discussion occurs. That is how these discussions go.

[Scythe13]

Okay, that's cool. Thanks SD.

[NorthernRaider]

Wish you could see some of my maps, I've spent hours with a highligher following the hundreds of old current and closed lines to mark out suitable routes, if any one asks I just claime to be a NE Railway history buff, which is true !!

[bigpaul]

i would have thought railway lines were a good way of getting out of an area fast, but just be wary...others might have the same idea.

[NorthernRaider]

(9 November 2012, 12:58)bigpaul Wrote: i would have thought railway lines were a good way of getting out of an area fast, but just be wary...others might have the same idea.

Thats why we plan on parallelling them !!

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(9 November 2012, 11:32)Scythe13 Wrote: I can't find the old thread, searched rail and train, and couldn't remember any chats on routes.

in the Scenarios
In my preppers guide
and bits in these threads


http://forum.survivaluk.net/showthread.p...t=parallel

http://forum.survivaluk.net/showthread.p...t=parallel

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