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We walk for 8 minutes (700 yards) to the bus stop at The Square and don't have long to wait for the 09:15 Stagecoach South East service 36 to Herne Bay, Library where we arrive at 09:57 on Thursday morning.
We exit the station and don't have long to wait for the 23:54 London Central service N89 to Elephant & Castle Station where we arrive at 00:04 on Thursday morning.
Home territory for me. As well as what seems to have been a rather half-hearted intention by the Met to extend to Berkhamsted, there were at least three other schemes to cross from the Chess to the Gade/Bulbourne valley, according to my very old and tatty ex-libris copy of "The Railways of...
We take a 7 minute (0.3 mile) walk to the Mitre Close stop on Alan Drayton Way and wait for the 18:35 Blue Star service 3 to Eastleigh Bus Station where we arrive at 18:45 on Wednesday evening.
Ahem - in fact , in the eastbound direction we were travelling Higham does come before Saxham and Risby, so @Xenophon PCDGS got it right in the first place!
We walk for 7 minutes, covering 600 yards to the bus stop at Armley, Whingate School, and wait for the 09:30 First Leeds service 4 to Seacroft Bus Station (Stand D) where we arrive at 10:17 on Tuesday morning.
Having been volunteer footpaths & rights of way warden for a rural parish where many of the footpaths and bridleways were little used, I can tell you that any attempt to change the network of rights of way is extremely bureaucratic and attracts volumes of protest, some from people who don't know...
We take the 7 minute walk to Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station and board 1B72, the 10:11 Transpennine Express service to Barnetby, where we alight at 12:18 on Monday.
We are too late for a bus out tonight, so fortified by a kebab from Muzzy's we wait it out for the 05:18 Whippet Coaches service X3 to Cambridge Railway Station where we arrive at 06:03 on Saturday morning.
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