I caught a 12:00 train to from London King’s Cross station to Edinburgh (terminus: Perth) and so far there’s only been a bit of delay due to the cold affecting some of the signaling a bit before we reached York. I should be in Edinburgh by 17:00-17:30 or so, depending on how things go.
The train has free (shoddy, but given where we are and what we’re going through – impressive) WiFi which is nice.
Checking the weather forecast shows that Edinburgh won’t be getting above freezing the next few days, with lows down to -13c! That’s about 8.6F, cold! Glad I got that coat when I did.
People on the train after our last stop (Newcastle – the last England stop) now have the distinctive Scottish accent, they say Edinburgh quite differently than I (try) to say it, and differently than the English say it as well. It’s more of just an “Eburh” than ed-in-bur-oh.
Here’s a picture from the train of some cooling towers in the flatlands of England, there were a bunch of plants in this one area. The geotag for the photo is probably incorrect – I think it got applied when I uploaded the photo vs when the photo was taken.
Cooling towers in England