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The smallest unit listed - within 5 days journey - gives an interesting perspective on the world of travel at that time. What would we choose nowadays for an e

The smallest unit listed - within 5 days journey - gives an interesting perspective on the world of travel at that time. What would we choose nowadays for an equivalent unit of "not worth listing anything below this?" Within an hour?

fredoralive 11y ago
On a world scale, an hour wouldn't get you that far, it would be eaten up by travel to / from airport. For example Charing Cross (often used as a location for the centre of London) is about 30 minutes by train / 40 by car from Heathrow Airport according to Google.
- DrJokepu 11y ago
  30 minutes on train from Charing Cross to Heathrow is a very optimistic estimate, I'd say 60 minutes (Picadilly line) would be more realistic.
  - fredoralive 11y ago
    Google routed me to Paddington (via Bakerloo) and then the Heathrow Express. I was probably lucky with departure times when I searched though. (Heathrow Express is expensive compared to the Underground though, but if you were making this sort of map you'd probably use it as it's the faster service).
buro9 11y ago
Within 5 hours would get you most of Europe.
- gutnor 11y ago
  I would put that at 8 hours. Unless Spain is especially badly connected, you are quickly at least 2 hours away from the airport. So that would be at least 4 hours slow transit + flight time. Of course, by population density, you are probably 5 hours away from most people in Europe.
- detaro 11y ago
  Only to major hubs, the "last (100) mile(s)" still will cost you a lot of time.
cstross 11y ago
I'd vote for "within 3 hours". 1 hour for travel time to airport, 1 hour for boarding (hand luggage only), 1 hour for flight. Meaning: up to 500 miles. Or: 1 hour to get to railway station, 15 minutes for boarding, 1h45m on a train (meaning anything from 100 miles -- USA -- to 300 miles -- Japan, Spain, France, Germany, etc). Your next step up is 6 hours. Flight as above, plus one transfer (1 hour) and two more hours in the air, or 4 hours on one sector. So call it up to 2000 miles. Or by rail, between 500 miles (USA: DC to Boston by Acela) and 700 miles (Tokyo to Fukuoka by Shinkansen -- actually only 5 hours). Longest options: I can get from Aberdeen (Scotland) to Wellington (New Zealand) in a little over 24 hours, and those are within a couple of hundred miles of being antipodal points on the globe. To take much more than 48 hours you'd need at least one end point to be somewhere either in a war zone or at the wrong end of a thousand miles of dirt track -- Raqqa in Syria maybe, or somewhere in the arse end of the Congo or the Gobi Desert.

fredoralive 11y ago

On a world scale, an hour wouldn't get you that far, it would be eaten up by travel to / from airport. For example Charing Cross (often used as a location for the centre of London) is about 30 minutes by train / 40 by car from Heathrow Airport according to Google.

DrJokepu 11y ago
30 minutes on train from Charing Cross to Heathrow is a very optimistic estimate, I'd say 60 minutes (Picadilly line) would be more realistic.
- fredoralive 11y ago
  Google routed me to Paddington (via Bakerloo) and then the Heathrow Express. I was probably lucky with departure times when I searched though. (Heathrow Express is expensive compared to the Underground though, but if you were making this sort of map you'd probably use it as it's the faster service).

buro9 11y ago

Within 5 hours would get you most of Europe.

gutnor 11y ago
I would put that at 8 hours. Unless Spain is especially badly connected, you are quickly at least 2 hours away from the airport. So that would be at least 4 hours slow transit + flight time. Of course, by population density, you are probably 5 hours away from most people in Europe.
detaro 11y ago
Only to major hubs, the "last (100) mile(s)" still will cost you a lot of time.

cstross 11y ago

I'd vote for "within 3 hours". 1 hour for travel time to airport, 1 hour for boarding (hand luggage only), 1 hour for flight. Meaning: up to 500 miles. Or: 1 hour to get to railway station, 15 minutes for boarding, 1h45m on a train (meaning anything from 100 miles -- USA -- to 300 miles -- Japan, Spain, France, Germany, etc). Your next step up is 6 hours. Flight as above, plus one transfer (1 hour) and two more hours in the air, or 4 hours on one sector. So call it up to 2000 miles. Or by rail, between 500 miles (USA: DC to Boston by Acela) and 700 miles (Tokyo to Fukuoka by Shinkansen -- actually only 5 hours). Longest options: I can get from Aberdeen (Scotland) to Wellington (New Zealand) in a little over 24 hours, and those are within a couple of hundred miles of being antipodal points on the globe. To take much more than 48 hours you'd need at least one end point to be somewhere either in a war zone or at the wrong end of a thousand miles of dirt track -- Raqqa in Syria maybe, or somewhere in the arse end of the Congo or the Gobi Desert.