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Let's start with a schedule written out for York-Edinburgh rather than the other way. Back to Rides in 1996
And this has actual times and loads of geeky analysis.
Here's a note from George Siddle, concerned that I might be thinking of going through the very centre of Darlington. (I wasn't - I used the inner ring road)
Here's the sequence of charts, starting at T+120, looking 5 days ahead.
Not very exciting, with SE or even E winds. Looking for something closer to SSE.
T+96 is a little more interesting, but still not really enough South.
At T+72 it was looking more like it, although the front over Ireland needed to stay put. I decided to notify of my intention to go on the 5th.
Things were still ok at T+48, so I packed the car.
And the final chart, T+24, confirmed what we would get. Almost the perfect wind direction.
Next we have the phone call list
I received this note from John Parr, who broke the record twice in the early sixties.
I also heard from Herbert Dixon, one of the York witnesses.
And from Ted Bays
And finally, a card from Chris Watts.
Back to Rides in 1996