The Transport Game (UK)

[ValleyLines142]

Heading to the railway station, which is just within our permitted boundary of 0.5 miles, we then board 2P67, the 1119 Northern service to Mexborough, arriving there at 1215 on Friday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1238 Northern service to Sheffield that arrives there at 1305 on Friday afternoon.

 

[AndrewR232]

We then take the 1321 CrossCountry service to Motherwell, arriving 1752 on Friday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We then find there is a stopping train with many stops to savour, so we next board the 1816 ScotRail service to Dalmuir that arrives at 1916 on Friday evening.

 

[AndrewR232]

We continue on the 1950 ScotRail service to Balloch, arriving 2013 on Friday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board 2E60, the 2023 ScotRail service to Glasgow Queen Street, arriving there at 2112 on Friday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next head to the eastern coastline area and board the 2141 ScotRail service to Laurencekirk that arrives there at 2352 on Friday evening.

 

[AndrewR232]

We spend the night in our sleeping bag before finally managing to get some sleep on the 0650 ScotRail service to Elgin, arriving 0846 on Saturday morning.

 

[bnsf734]

We then leave the station and walk to the stop outside on Station Road from where we catch the 0903 Stagecoach Bluebird service 33A and alight at Elgin, Bus Station arriving there at 0949 on Saturday morning, after enjoying a circular tour of the local area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

For those who contributed to the earlier version of the game, we are aware of the dangers inherent in "Lybster Omnibus Syndrome" that can occur to the north of this region......
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We next board the 0935 Stagecoach Bluebird service 11 to Nairn bus station that arrives there at 1021 on Saturday morning,

 

[ValleyLines142]

Oh sod that, I'm not taking that risk!

Playing it safe, we take the ten minute walk to the railway station which is 0.5 miles away, where we board 1A50, the 1114 ScotRail service to Aberdeen, arriving there at 1313 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1338 ScotRail service to Keith that arrives there at 1442 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Not much we can do here, as we board 1A54, the 1530 ScotRail service to Inverurie, arriving there at 1614 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[dzug2]

We then take the 1749 Scotrail service to Inverness, arriving at 1939 Saturday evening

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board 1T56, the 2015 ScotRail service to Stirling, arriving there at 2308 on Saturday evening.

 

[AndrewR232]

Up next is the 0001 ScotRail service to Alloa, arriving 0013 on Sunday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then call it a night before boarding 2N50, the 0914 ScotRail service to Bishopbriggs, arriving there at 0958 on Sunday evening.

 

[dzug2]

We take the 1021 ScotRail to Stirling, arriving 1054 Sunday morning

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board 2N54, the 1125 ScotRail service to Glasgow Queen Street, arriving there at 1205 on Sunday afternoon.

 

[bnsf734]

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[Xenophon PCDGS]

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We next board the 1220 ScotRail service to Mallaig that arrives at 1743 on Sunday afternoon.


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Move amendment pending....

Note that I had already made a posting from Glasgow Queen Street prior to you making the amendement to your posting.

It is best that if a posting is to be totally changed, the original posting should be struck-through, then a new posting made.

 

[ValleyLines142]

I knew we were going to end up on that service to Mallaig! I literally would have put money on it!

We then board 1Y58, the 1815 ScotRail service to Fort William, arriving there at 1937 on Sunday evening.

 

[AndrewR232]

I wish I'd been around for the Bishopbriggs move, I'd have taken the bus to my house.

 

[dzug2]

Looks like back to Mallaig on the 2214 Scotrail. We arrive there at 2335 Sunday evening having chickened out of alighting at an intermediate station

 

[ValleyLines142]

These stupid Highland services are irritating me now. They are too infrequent.

We call it a night before heading back towards a larger settlement to avoid being stuck in some rural weird place, so we board 1Y44, the 1010 ScotRail service to Dalmuir, arriving there at 1505 on Monday afternoon.

 

[AndrewR232]

We change to the 1523 ScotRail service to Hamilton Central, arriving 1617 on Monday afternoon.

 

[dzug2]

Hang on - what was wrong with the 0603 departure at Mallaig? Or even the 0850 ferry to Armadale if we didn't want to get up quite so early? We've lost 4 hours of good travelling time

 

[ValleyLines142]

Hang on - what was wrong with the 0603 departure at Mallaig? Or even the 0850 ferry to Armadale if we didn't want to get up quite so early?

Funny you say that as I thought the 1010 surely couldn't be the first service of the day! But that was the first one showing all day!

In that case, let's take the 0603 to Dalmuir, arriving at 1109.

Then perhaps AndrewR232 could take the 1117 to Hamilton Central, arriving there at 1223.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

..... to avoid being stuck in some rural weird place

You have never lived if you have never played on the Closed Stations Journey quiz on some of the old railway lines in Northern Scotland and seen some of the amazing names that were given to stations and halts by the original railway companies.....

 

[AndrewR232]

Then perhaps AndrewR232 could take the 1117 to Hamilton Central, arriving there at 1223.

You got the times slightly mixed up there - we take the 1123 to Hamilton Central, arriving at 1217 on Monday afternoon.