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[fivemack]

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I thought I'd have to do this for Satellite 2 (25th-26th July), but it turns out that from Cambridge the timing's right to get a train quite late Friday evening and catch the midnight sleeper, then catch the 2140 from Glasgow on the Sunday and get back into Euston; this is about the same price as a return train to Stansted, a flight and an extra night in the con hotel, gets me a calm evening in Cambridge rather than a panicked taxi from the office to the station, and in mid-July should have incomparably better views out of the window of the breakfast car.

I spent five years in dormitories at boarding school, and so don't require privacy to sleep; I've had a reasonable night's sleep in second class on the Delhi-Varanasi sleeper, and am sure Scotrail is more comfortable than that.