He traveled almost 17 miles (27 kilometers) from the Paris racecourse to Trappes moving approximately 6 miles per hour (10 kilometers/hour).”īut that was with the wind and untroubled by weather. “Giffard’s first flight took place on September 24, 1852. Why did I write myself into that corner? Oh yes, Alexia had to be on board for a while.) So in 1874 it would take 4 days (96 hrs) get 400 miles by dirigible (c. Then I calculated Exeter to London or thereabouts, which is 200 miles driving in modern times (because there is no direct route, as the crow flies it’s more like 160). My original post concerned London to Glasgow, a little over 400 miles. Or is this the reason humans are so strongly in favor of increased transport speeds? The interesting thing is, of course, that the advent of the steam engine would have eliminated a major advantage initially held by werewolves, namely that they could move across the landscape faster than daylight folk. My estimates are probably a little high given weather and terrain. Also they are considered more fashionable. But they are safer than ground transportation, as neither vampires or werewolves will travel by air, so people opt for them over trains if they have the time. By dirigible: in my world, these are said to move at about half the speed of a train, so it would take 4 days.
Horse time calc full#
So it would take him 5 days (and he can’t travel on or around full moon)
Horse time calc series#
Travel Times ~ The Parasol Protectorate Series So from London to Glasgow So let us, for the sake of argument, double the time it would take to cross England into Scotland from 16 to 32 hours.Īfter all, this is my universe I get to make adjustments as I see fit. There would be stopovers and passenger pick ups. (Modern direct fast trains from London take about 6 hours to get Scotland, meaning we are now over 2x faster than the Victorians.) But no passenger trains of the Victorian Era traveled that quickly within the UK (in my steampunk Victorian time period or the real one). So a train of a similar type to the Madras Express would take 16 hours or so. My characters in Changeless were traveling north of Glasgow into the Highlands towards Dunblane, I only needed a lose estimate. 29 hours by the Madras Express mail carrier (the fastest train on its route). In 1956, the 789-mile Madras-Bombay stretch was done in c. In my world werewolves in wolf form can move faster than horses at a run, giving them about a 10 mph, but they can only do so at night. Let’s call that 4 mph normal, and 8.5 mph at a push. One horse, one rider could do 200 miles in 24 hours but the horse would probably die. A desperate man in very good physical condition can handle the same distance on foot. 50 miles a day, depending on terrain and weather.
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