The Transport Game (UK)

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We take the five minute walk to Liverpool Lime Street station and board the 2315 Northern service to Eccles that arrives there at 0002 on Monday morning.

 

[Springs Branch]

After a short walk to Eccles Interchange we board the 0017 First Manchester service 100 to Manchester (Deansgate / St. Mary's Gate) arriving at 0041 early Monday morning.

 

[backontrack]

We've just missed the last tram to MediaCityUK (it left at 00:40), so we are forced to call it a night due to the lack of night buses in this area of Manchester. In the morning we board the 09:51 First TransPennine Express service to Windermere as far as Oxenholme Lake District, alighting from that train at 11:18 on Monday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Deansgate station is 0.8 miles away from St Mary's Gate.

Are you referring to the St Mary's Gate near Harvey Nicholls?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deansgate station is 0.8 miles away from St Mary's Gate.

Are you referring to the St Mary's Gate near Harvey Nicholls?

That is exactly the position where the number 100 bus stopped at in the posting that preceded the one from Deansgate station.

Incidentally, it seemed an awfully long time to wait on Deansgate station before boarding a train there at 0951 on a Monday morning, after arriving in Manchester at 0041. I know that Deansgate has many services running from prior to that time on a Monday morning.

 

[Trainfan344]

Can we have an adjudication on this please so we may continue the game?

 

[Springs Branch]

Since we have no specific people acting as adjudicators in this quiz, relying instead on community agreement, I'll suggest that we dis-allow the Deansgate-Oxenholme move at post #6053 for two reasons:-

1) Deansgate railway station is well beyond the 0.5 mile walking limit.
2) The 0951 TPE departure is around 5 hours after resumption of public transport service in Manchester on Monday morning. Our normal rule is "move within 2 hours".

If others agree, I propose we continue from the Deansgate / St. Mary's Gate bus stop near Manchester Cathedral, where we arrived at 0041 early Monday morning.

(Hint: Piccadilly Gardens is just within ½ mile of the last alighting point, and several all-night bus routes are available)

 

[Trainfan344]

Since we have no specific people acting as adjudicators in this quiz, relying instead on community agreement, I'll suggest that we dis-allow the Deansgate-Oxenholme move at post #6053 for two reasons:-

1) Deansgate railway station is well beyond the 0.5 mile walking limit.
2) The 0951 TPE departure is around 5 hours after resumption of public transport service in Manchester on Monday morning. Our normal rule is "move within 2 hours".

If others agree, I propose we continue from the Deansgate / St. Mary's Gate bus stop near Manchester Cathedral, where we arrived at 0041 early Monday morning.

I'm in agreement with this.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

After a short walk to Eccles Interchange we board the 0017 First Manchester service 100 to Manchester (Deansgate / St. Mary's Gate) arriving at 0041 early Monday morning.

We take the 0.5 mile walk to Manchester Piccadilly bus station where we board the 0109 Stagecoach Manchester service 43 that arrives at Woodhouse Park (Portway/Oatlands Road) at 0151 on Monday morning

 

[Springs Branch]

We board another Stagecoach Manchester service 43 at 0210, alighting at Rusholme (Wilmslow Rd/Great Western St) at 0242 Monday morning.

 

[Trainfan344]

Observing the 5 minute connection time allows us to connect onto the 02:47 Stagecoach Manchester service to East Didsbury (Wilmslow Rd/Didsbury Cricket Club) arriving there at 03:03 Monday Morning

 

[backontrack]

We take a short walk down to East Didsbury Parrs Wood and board the 03:18 Magic Bus service to Manchester Piccadilly Gardens, arriving there at 03:39 in the early hours of Monday morning.

EDIT: That bus runs during University term time only, so we walk to Parrs Wood Lane/Tesco and board the 03:23 Stagecoach in Manchester service to Piccadilly Gardens (Stop G), arriving at 03:44 on Monday morning.

 

[dzug2]

We walk to Piccadilly station (0.3miles) and take the 0500 TPE service to Lockerbie, arriving at 0710 Monday morning

 

[Trainfan344]

We leave the railway behind and head outside and walk 3 minutes to Lockerbie Bridge Street to pick up the 07:32 Houstons Minicoaches service 381 to Lockerbie (Dryfesdale Cemetery opp) arriving there at 07:35 Monday Morning.

 

[backontrack]

We walk to the Lockerbie (High Street) bus stop and board the 08:00 Stagecoach West Scotland route 380 bus service to Moffat (High Street), arriving there at 08:35 on Monday morning.

 

[dzug2]

Trainfan344 posted at 1106 and you at 1110 as displayed on my PC - so the move to Moffat is not valid

Or have you walked from the cemetery to the High Street?

Mind you I sometimes get the impression (wrong I hope) that this site occasionally plays tricks with posting times

 

[backontrack]

I would have walked, but it's much too far a distance than that allowed, despite the fact that there was ample connection time.
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We leave the railway behind and head outside and walk 3 minutes to Lockerbie Bridge Street to pick up the 07:32 Houstons Minicoaches service 381 to Lockerbie (Dryfesdale Cemetery opp) arriving there at 07:35 Monday Morning.

We board the Stagecoach West Scotland route 81 bus into Lockerbie at 08:09, alighting at Bridge Street at 08:10 on Monday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Taking the short walk to the railway station, we then board the 0911 First TransPennine Express service 1M93 to Wigan North Western, arriving there at 1058 on Monday morning.

 

[Quakkerillo]

At 11:30, we board Virgin Trains 9M52 Edinburgh - London Euston.

We alight again at Sandwell & Dudley at 12:54 on Monday afternoon.

 

[backontrack]

We board the 13:24 Virgin Trains Route A service to Glasgow Central, arriving there at 17:17 Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 1730 Virgin Trains service 1M18 to Milton Keynes Central, arriving there at 2147 on Monday evening.

 

[Quakkerillo]

Finishing our "Virgin Trains Bashing" for today, we head onto a Southern service, 2O79, which departs at 22:11 towards East Croydon.
At 23:30 we alight, having arrived at Imperial Wharf on Monday evening.

 

[James Wake]

Next we board from around the corner the 2336 London United Route 391 to Turnham Green Church, arriving at exactly 2400/0000 on Tuesday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 0010 Metroline service 237 to White City (Bus Station), arriving there at 0026 in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

 

[Trainfan344]

Next, we board the 00:40 Abellio London bus 49 to Clapham Junction (The Falcon) arriving there at 01:09 Tuesday Morning

 

[FQ]

We head over to the railway station and then take the 01:46 Southern service to London Victoria arriving at 01:53 on Tuesday Morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 0800 Stagecoach West Scotland service 81 to Crighton (D & E College) that arrives there at 0850 on Monday morning.

 

[backontrack]

Finishing our "Virgin Trains Bashing" for today, we...

We've certainly been bashed around a bit on those trains!

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0800 Stagecoach West Scotland service 81 to Crighton (D & E College) that arrives there at 0850 on Monday morning.

Paul you're way behind haha. Think you've forgotten to go on the next page! We're at London Victoria at 0146 on Tuesday morning!

Continuing our travels through the night across the capital, we then board the 0200 Metroline service N16 to Edgware (Bus Station), arriving there at 0247 in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

 

[transportphoto]

I'm glad you were all able to come to a decision regarding the hiccup yesterday, whilst I did receive a PM alerting me to the matter, I was away from home from early to late, and similarly today and have had limited time to get online... despite being near a city centre, being there with 40+ thousand people does tend to put a lot of stress on mobile networks!

TP