Subject: [101attendees] Trip to Bletchley Park - feedback

From: "Gray, Andrew" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:28:34 +0000

All,

As I posted Saturday, myself and a few others went to Bletchley Park on Sunday.   For those of you that may also be thinking about going, a few notes:

- Bletchley Park itself was quite good, although they have a section closed at the moment pending a new installation opening on the 24th.  They do have a working replica Bombe machine, which we caught the live demonstration of by accident.

- Directly behind Bletchley Park is The National Museum of Computing (http://www.tnmoc.org/) which was an additional 7.50, but some good exhibits there as well – very limited hours though (the full museum is only open 12pm to 5pm on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday).  It is located behind the front building for Bletchley, behind the carpark and up a small hill – very walkable.

- Bletchley Park is an easy walk from the Bletchley train station (no need for the cabs that are outside the station), and there are signs guiding you. 

- Our original agenda that I posted on Saturday got screwed up a little by National Rail cancelling trains due to weather.  We still got there, just about an hour later than we wanted.  May be worth verifying train schedules.  Otherwise, it worked fine.  The walk from the tube station to the National Rail station was very short.   There are other tube stations that are directly connected to the rail station, but not Circle line.  You could, if you really felt the need, do a tube connection between Circle and Victoria or Northern lines, and take Victoria/Northern directly to the Euston rail station, but it really isn’t worth it.

- We spent about 3.5 hours at Bletchley and could have spent another hour or two.  We spent about 90 minutes at The National Museum of Computing, which was about right.

Hope this information is useful to folks.

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