The Border is lower on the west, just south of Gretna, which is almost exactly the same latitude as Newcastle, at a tad below 55 deg North. Carlisle is about 10 miles south of Gretna.
Even so you still have a 100 odd mile journey up to the central belt of Glasgow/Edinburgh and they are only half way up Scotland, if that...
Oh yes there is but the Haggis are getting tired now and getting replacement counter clockwise Haggis at this time of year and this far south can be problematical.
Shoe, or fish?
It was in 1972. I suspect motorways didn't carry a high enough density and speed to generate pile-ups much before then, although there were certainly accidents involving smaller numbers of vehicles.
Nowhere near half way.
Over 250 miles by road from Edinburgh to Wick.
Berwick about 50 miles from Edinburgh.
From my point of view, even Inverness is The South...
Brrrrrr!
On the north coast, although it's very windy we tend to be much warmer than places farther south, like the Cairngorms.
I suspect it rather depends upon your definition of a pile up. In 1962, the Road Research Laboratory published a report on the effects of speed limits that was commissioned as a result of a number of multi-vehicle accidents on the M1.
Colin Bignell
Or pirate?
En el artículo , Robin escribió:
Sounds a bit fishy.
I remember a road sign above some traffic lights in Wolverhampton that said "Go only when green". That's as far north as I want to go
The ICI works on Tees-side used to have their own 33Hz supply
On the west coast it's 100+ miles from the Border to the Central belt, which is the side this bit of the thread is talking about. B-)
True - which questions what The North actually means! The north of Great Britain or the north of England? Or some couldn't-be-bothered-to-think-it-through term? Have always been surprised how few signs in England mention Scotland (or any place in that country) at all. I would have expected to see signs from somewhere like Preston onwards saying "The North and Scotland" - but it is not until you are almost falling over the border they really start to appear.
In the 1970s, Dreamland funfair in Margate was still being supplied with DC.
Colin Bignell
It's a fare cop :(
Generated by a record player?
;-)
Glasgow is almost the same distance by road from Wick as Edinburgh.
Perth is called the centre of Scotland. Although those who live in Edinburgh or Glasgow may thing they are the centre. Bit like London. ;-)
The old A1 has signs 'to the north' just outside London.
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