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Hi,
I will be travelling from Machester to Nottingham on 04 Jan 08 to avoid
the jam packed immigration clearance at Heathrow Airport. Is Machester Airport better than Heathrow or just as bad ?
From Manchester to Nottingham, what's the best mode of travel By bus or train ?
Thanks alot.
Manchester Airport is one of the busiest airports in the country, but not as busy as Heathrow so there won't be as many people going through immigration. I'm an American citizen with British residency, so I still have to check in with immigration. In my experience most of the people on my flights to Manchester have been British, who are waved through a separate queue, and everything moves along fairly quickly.
At the airport, follow signs for 'The Station' which is the train station between the terminals. Most all trains which stop here will call at Manchester Piccadilly, which is the main station for the city. The ride from the airport into the city centre only takes 15-20 minutes. Change here for the direct train to Nottingham. Altogether it can take as little as 2 hours and 20 minutes. A bus would take much longer, which you'd have to catch from Manchester Central coach station, which is about a 10-minute walk from Piccadilly. You could take a taxi with luggage, but the train is faster, more comfortable and less hassle.
The station at the airport has a ticketing office where they can sell you a through ticket and advice on changing trains. It's all a lot smoother and faster than Heathrow!
www.nationalrail.co.uk for all train times and fares.
www.nationalexpress.com should you wish to investigate coaches; cheaper, but take longer.
Getting through Manchester will be a breeze (hopefully) in comparison to Heathrow!
You can take a direct train from Manchester to Nottingham - as well as the site Leics recommends also look at www.centraltrains.co.uk.It has some fare offers and city guides too. The train you would take would be a Liverpool to Norwich train via Manchester and Nottingham.
Another way to get from Manchester Airport is to take bus 199 (every 30 minutes) to either Stockport or Buxton, then catch the "Transpeak" coach service from there to Nottingham (it runs every 2 hours - see www.transpeak.co.uk).
This is a very scenic journey through the Peak District and fairly cheap (buy a "ZigZag Plus ticket on the 199 bus and use it to travel on the Transpeak Coach as well - I think it costs about £8). However, the train will probably be quicker and easier.
In 18th chetury the first camal of England was cut in CASTLEFIELD and first train station of Englend was built here too. At that time the canal and railway made Manchester become the first industry city on the world.
Today Castlefield become a tourist attraction.
Check out G-MEX. The old Central Station (connecting Liverpool) which closed in 1960 and these days have become the Greater Manchester Exhibition Centre (GMEX). It have cost more than £20 million to convert it to one of England's finest exhibition centres, and was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in 1986.
During the industrial era, most goods travelled by train or on the canals between Liverpool and Manchester, and towards the eastern industrial cities.
Now the canals are quiet and only a few colourful barges glide along the refurbished warehouses and new residential buildings. You can walk across the city from Castlefield to Canal Street far from the traffic. The area around Canl Street is also know as the gay quarter, with a renown nightlife.
Castlefield shows many bridges and locks with views on the newest buildings, presenting an interesting contrast of times and architecture.
For the spooky under bridges intro, go to the canals through the Roman Fort (nothing of interest there, only cheap reconstruction) from Liverpool Road. It's close to Deansgate station.
But you can reach the canals from many streets along the way.
Mamucium, the Roman name for the settlement established here in AD 79, means (in polite terms) 'breast-shaped hill.' That's right, boobies. And not blue-footed boobies, either.
Sean Connery was asked to play for Manchester United. Matt Busby approached him with the offer while the Scottish actor was appearing in South Pacific at Manchester's Opera House.
Decades before women's suffrage, Lily Maxwell of Manchester in 1867 became the first woman to vote in a parliamentary election. Ms Maxwell mistakenly was placed on the electoral role because she owned a shop and was a taxpayer. Supporters cheered as she took to the polls, but her vote was later declared invalid by the authorities. Ms Maxwell took the matter to court but lost, with the judge ruling that 'every woman is personally incapable of voting.'
Two leaders in the Suffragette movement to give women the right to vote lived in Manchester, both Lydia Becker and Emmeline Pankhurst.
Speaking of Suffragettes, other groups with Mancunian roots include:
Vegetarians. Originally a Christian movement based on the sermons of (the quite ironically-named) Rev William Cowherd of the Salford Bible Christian Church in the early 1800s.
Labour unions. The Trades Union Congress held their first general meeting in Manchester's Mechanics' Institute.
The Shakers. In 1786 at the age of 50, lifelong Manchester resident Ann Lee (founder of the Shaker church) left the country with her followers to live in the USA.
Afflecks is a revitalised city centre building with five storeys of around 50 stalls and market-type shops, which provides shoppers with a novel buying experience. Very like an Aladdin's Cave, Afflecks has become a platform for fledgling designers, punk, retro style and experimental fashion - a magnet to young shoppers, particularly on Saturdays. All you can imagine...
Shop at Afflecks for : second-hand clothes and "laid back" gear, denims, rare and old records, anything to do with the occult, books, magazines, tattooing, hairstyling, jewellery, ceramics - a shopping experience unique to Manchester.
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