up north!

[Cymru1]

just watching Question Time on Bbc1... they were talking
about the planned HS2 rail link...(should be Maglev!)......some politician
bird said there will be "northern" stations e.g Birmingham!!!

Birmingham...Northern?....Does that make me a f***ing eskimo then?

Sry; back down pit for me, eating me gravel and living in shoe-box in middle
of road....etc.

(thought birmingham was the last stop on this line anyhow?)

[anthonys2]

Alot of companies I deal with think Birmingham is in the blooody north which is stupid??? The country stops at the midlands for some reason and they think the north east is Scotland WTF!!!!

[Jamo]

Anything beyond Watford is northern
Can't win being a midlander northern to cockneys southern to north east etc!

[20Vcqdriver]

Heard this plenty of times. Mate had a big argument when he worked in Bristol, Trying to get accross that Birmingham was in the Midlands and North doesn't even start until you pass stoke on trent. In fact as far as my wife is concerned Wirral is still Midlands and the real Northerners are after Manchester. This from a devoted Lancastrian

[tscheel]

Birmingham seems preety much West-South-West to me. Aberdeen a little Northish.

[andy10v]

And where do you think people in Scotland live?

[Bowlerwell]

I grew up in Peterhead (most easterly point in Scotland).
To me, it always seems wierd referring to anything in England as 'the North'.
I now live 2.5 hours further south in Edinburgh, and I'm still hours drive from Newcastle.

[20Vcqdriver]

And where do you think people in Scotland live?

Thats a completely different country altogether
I was refferring to North of England. If referring to North of the UK then Lancaster is still the Midlands and the south starts at Birmingham

[istoo]

i used to get loads of calls from reps saying, ii am in newcastle this morning mind if i pop up and see you? I gave up explaining Aberdeen is 300 miles from Newcastle, and just replied, yeah sure, how about lunch time? OK, then wait for the "cant make it" call...

Shock horror the UK goes on quite a bit past London!

[Error404]

And where do you think people in Scotland live?

Caves?

[Hammer786]

North Wales barely exists to me

But seriously I'm not sure this is a great way to spend all this cash, better to upgrade existing routes imo.

[audinut]

Anything beyond Watford is northern
Can't win being a midlander northern to cockneys southern to north east etc!

[djh]

and I'm still hours drive from Newcastle.

is that a bad thing?