Woking & Frimley

Hi,

Starting a new job soon in Frimley and am travelling via train from
Surbiton. Am currently thinking of getting train to Farnborough and
Bromptoning it to the business park .... http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1009
.... however have been unable to see the cycle path whilst walking from
Frimley High St to business park.

My other idea is to get a train to Woking then cycle along the canal
to Frimley. Not sure how long this will take and where to join it from
Woking station.

I am looking for the "back up plan" route which will keep me moving
and make sure I'm not late. These "every 30 minutes" trains worry me.

Other thoughts, cycle from Ash Vale looks viable ...

Help appreciated

Nick

In ,
elyob tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:

My other idea is to get a train to Woking then cycle along the canal
to Frimley. Not sure how long this will take and where to join it from
Woking station.

Dunno how long it'd take, but come out the High Street side of the station,
wend your way through the town centre[1] and get on the towpath where
Chobham Road crosses the cut.

1 - much of it is pedestrianised, thobut.

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On 3 Sep, 12:17, "Dave Larrington"
wrote:
,
elyob tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:

My other idea is to get a train to Woking then cycle along the canal
to Frimley. Not sure how long this will take and where to join it from
Woking station.

Dunno how long it'd take, but come out the High Street side of the station,
wend your way through the town centre[1] and get on the towpath where
Chobham Road crosses the cut.

1 - much of it is pedestrianised, thobut.


I found this, which makes it out as 12.6km to Frimley Green .... looks
a nice ride

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Basingstoke-Canal

Quoting elyob :
My other idea is to get a train to Woking then cycle along the canal
to Frimley. Not sure how long this will take and where to join it from
Woking station.

If the towpath is anything like it is East of Woking, it's a bit of a
struggle in the wet, muddy and unsurfaced.
--
David Damerell flcl?
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elyob wrote:
Hi,

Starting a new job soon in Frimley and am travelling via train from
Surbiton. Am currently thinking of getting train to Farnborough and
Bromptoning it to the business park .... http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1009
... however have been unable to see the cycle path whilst walking from
Frimley High St to business park.

The "cycle path" is in fact the pavement along Farnborough road. I cycle
most of that route on my commute all be it in the other direction. I
never use the cycle path, to many peds and to dangerous to cross the
roads. On a Brom I might use the Road to the roundabout with the Hawley
road and then join the cycle path as you can cross using the lights to
get to the cycle path on the other side. However as you have spotted
when you get to Frimley High street you are on your own and have to and
have to be able to get over the Frimley bypass. Which is a good reason
to stay on the road and just ride along the bypass, which apart from
where the slip road joins from the Blackwater valley relief road is not
actually that bad (again I do this in the evening the traffic going in
the other direction I've not paid to much attention to but I don't think
it is any worse). The way back if you go along Frimley high street you
can avoid having to turn right at the round about.

The cycle facilities in and around Farnborough are to put it nicely, crap.

--chris

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:23:37 +0100, David Damerell
wrote:
Quoting elyob :
My other idea is to get a train to Woking then cycle along the canal
to Frimley. Not sure how long this will take and where to join it from
Woking station.

If the towpath is anything like it is East of Woking, it's a bit of a
struggle in the wet, muddy and unsurfaced.

This is my memory of it too, with one stretch where much of the path had
fallen into the canal, but I was hoping it might have improved in 35 years!

Going west from Woking was, I think, better.

Colin McKenzie

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