The International Transport Game

[Springs Branch]

Just for variety, we change back to the MARTA bus system. We board a route 3 bus from the station interchange at 2225, arriving at Five Points Station at 2251 Monday evening.

Source: itsmarta.com

 

[Bodie]

Going for gold now as we depart Five Points at 2314 on MARTA'S line of the same colour to Airport station arriving 2331 on Monday night.

Source: Google Maps

 

[Springs Branch]

Delta Airlines have an astonishing number of departures from Atlanta airport between 2300 and 2330 (how many runways do they have here?), but we're just too late for the last flight of the day.

After overnight at the airport, we leave on an early flight ......
0535 Southwest Airlines WN1460, arriving Denver, CO (Terminal N) at 0705 Tuesday morning.

Source: southwest.com

 

[Bodie]

Hello Denver. We start to get used to the high altitude as we make our way outside the terminal building to the bus stop named 'DIA West: Island #5'.
Here we board RTD's AA service leaving at 0750 and reaching our destination Union Station bus concourse at 0835 on Tuesday morning

Source: Google Maps

Scheduled to open in April we are just too early to ride the A line new rail connection from Denver Union Station out to the airport.
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[Springs Branch]

What a pity, the daily Amtrak California Zephyr left Denver Union Station for the west coast less than an hour ago, and the eastbound train isn't due until this evening. So it's another day, another US Light Rail system .....

We walk across to the Union Station RTD Light Rail platforms and board the 0849 Line C train to I-25 - Broadway station, arriving 0902 Tuesday morning.

Source: rtd-denver.com

 

[Bodie]

From here we jump aboard a line H train to Southmoor leaving at 0914 and arriving at 0926 on Tuesday morning.

Source: rtd-denver.com

 

[Springs Branch]

There's a handy cross-suburban bus route 35 that connects stations across three of Denver's radial light-rail lines. Unfortuately the RTD's on-line trip planner doesn't seem to know about it. So consulting the old-fashioned timetables .....

We board RTD bus 35 outside Southmoor Station at 0940 and travel to its terminus at Englewood Station arriving 0959 Tuesday morning.

Source: rtd-denver.com

 

[Bodie]

Northwards on the D line, departing 1012 to 18th and California where we arrive at 1033 on Tuesday morning.

Source: rtd-denver.com

 

[Springs Branch]

An eight minute walk takes us to the Greyhound bus terminal at 1055 19th Street. Invoking the 3 hour rule in this game, we stock up on soft drinks and snacks for a long bus journey.

We take Greyhound's Schedule 1683 bus, leaving Denver at 1215, arriving 21¾ hours later in Los Angeles, CA (1716 E 7th St at Decatur St) at 0900 Wednesday morning.

Source: greyhound.com

 

[Bodie]

I doff my hat sir, tot that move.

Staggering around quite unsure of even our name we find our way to the bus stop at 7th / Decatur. We steel ourselves for another bus journey as we are eager to explore this sprawling metropolis.

At 0911 we board Metro Local service number 18 to 5th/Spring arriving some 9 minutes later at 0920 on Tuesday morning.

Source: Google Maps

 

[Springs Branch]

We enter the nearby Pershing Square Metro Rail (=subway) station. We take a Metro Red Line train at 0937 to an iconic destination from a bygone era, Hollywood/Vine Station, arriving 0953 Tuesday morning.

Source: go511.com

 

[Bodie]

We exit the station and cross the road admiring the famous stars on that famous sidewalk (sorry pavement, we've been in the US so long we are picking up the local lingo)

The stars continue up Vine Street and so do we coming to a halt at the bus stop at Vine\Hollywood , we of course having our eyes fixed on public transport infrastructure as well as the stars at our feet. Our stopping is because we have seen something that this traveller at least finds himself drawn to like a magnet.
That is a move to an airport and a ruddy big one at that.

So at 1015 we leave aboard LAX Flyaway's HW2LAX service to LAX Terminal 2 - Lower level shuttle stop arriving at 1145 onTuesday morning.

Source: Google Maps

With this airports huge number of international destinations, might we leave the US? Of course next poster can do as they wish.

 

[Springs Branch]

There are certainly lots of international long-haul flights, but departures are not evenly spaced through the day and midday seems a bit of a lull.
There is a JAL flight to Osaka at 1220 (for Shinkansen moves), but that's a bit too tight even for this fantasy game - especially as we need to walk from T2 to the International Terminal. So we choose:-

KLM flight KL602 departing 1345 to Amsterdam Schiphol arriving 0905 Wednesday morning.

Source: klm.com

 

[me123]

We enter the Schengen area and stick with KLM for a short flight to Stuttgart, namely KL1869 which leaves at 10:10. It arrives at 11:25 on Wednesday Morning.

Source: Google Flights

 

[Springs Branch]

Lots of transport options in Stuttgart, so we exit to the Flughafen/Messe S-Bahn station.

We take a Line S2 train at 1208 to Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof arriving 1235 Wednesday morning.

Source: vvs.de

 

[Bodie]

Have just been trying to do a crossword puzzle with one of the answers being The Brandenburg Gate and thinking how I would very much like to see it. I can at least make do for now in heading to the German capital in this game.

Thankfully this is achievable because when we enter Stuttgart Hbf and glance up at the boards, we see Berlin writ large.

This also affords us our first long distance European rail journey for some time.

At 1251 we begin this journey on board ICE 598 and reach the nearest station for this service to the gate which is Berlin Hbf at 1825 on Wednesday evening.

Source: reiseauskunft.bahn.de

 

[Springs Branch]

Why not take a closer look at the Brandenburg Gate while we're here?

We transfer to the Hauptbahnhof U-Bahn station and take a Line U55 train at 1845, arriving a mere two minutes later at Brandenburger Tor at 1847 Wednesday evening.

Source: fahrinfo.bvg.de

 

[Bodie]

We walk out of the station and across Pariser Platz to get some holiday snaps of the Brandenburg Gate, we've certainly come a long way to get here.

Back now to Brandenburger Tor and Northwards on a S2 line train at 1906 to Berlin Gesundbrunnen arriving at 1916 on Wednesday evening.

Source: Google Maps

 

[Springs Branch]

Can't possibly visit Berlin without a ride on one of the yellow BVG double-deck buses.

Outside Gesundbrunnen station we board a route 247 bus at 1934 to Leopoldplatz arriving 1945 Wednesday evening.

Source: fahrinfo.bvg.de

 

[johnnychips]

We take the Berlin U6 subway from Leopoldplatz at 2005, arriving at Friedrichstrasse at 2012 on Wednesday evening.

Google Maps

 

[Bodie]

We head over to the mainline station and take the S25 line South at 2023 to Yorckstrasse arriving at 2031 on Wednesday night.

Source: reiseauskunft.bahn.de
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[DasLunatic]

It's then a quick trip on the 2038 M19 bus to Mehringdamm, arriving at 2042 Wednesday night.

Google Maps

 

[Bodie]

Seen as we are so close let's take a look at one of the world's more unusual parks. The disused Templehof Airport.

We head down into the U-Bahn station and leave on a U6 service at 2051. We have several stations to chose from and we opt to alight at U Paradestr four minutes later at 2055 on Wednesday night.

Source: Google Maps

 

[DasLunatic]

Wanting some fresh air, we walk the 850 metres between Paradestr and S+U Tempelhof. We then board the 2125 S45 train to Berlin-Schönefeld Flughafen, arriving at the airport at 2156 Wednesday night.

Google Maps

 

[Bodie]

As we look at where to go we see a couple of flights leaving inside the next 24 minutes. Too little time alas.
Seems we have just one other flight available tonight and it is heading East.

So we're Russia bound aboard Aeroflot flight number 2317 leaving at very nearly the same time as that flight number, that is 2340 and we reach our destination of Sheremetyevo International, Moscow (SVO) at the early hour of 0405 on Thursday morning.

Source: flightstats.com

 

[Springs Branch]

Moscow is a huge city with an extensive public transport system, and Google even promises an English-language journey planner for the Metro.
But this website refuses to load, so we say Пока to Russia and move on.....

We board Alitalia AZ565 to Milan Malpensa (MXP) arriving 0805 Thursday morning.

Source: alitalia.com

 

[DasLunatic]

Once again, we attempt to cause a temporal paradox and have both the International and UK versions meet each other. Since the UK version of us is in a suburb of Hull, we need a flightpath that goes over Hull. So, we look at the departures board, quickly check Flightradar to check flightpaths and board the 1045 easyJet flight 2687, departing Milan Malpensa at 1045 and arriving into Glasgow Abbotsinch Airport at 1220 Thursay afternoon.

Google Flights

 

[Bodie]

Let's keep going North by boarding Icelandair flight 431 leaving Scotland at 1320 bound for Reykjavik, Keflavik where we arrive at 1540 on Thursday afternoon.

Source: flightstats.com

Whilst at Glasgow we begin to hear reports of strange goings on in the Hull suburb of Sculcoates. Great flashes of light and some are even claiming to have seen rips in the fabric of space and time.

Very nice touch DasLunatic, I didn't know Glasgow Airport's former name was Abbotsinch.

 

[DasLunatic]

It's then time to get off the aircraft and sample some of Iceland's buses.

At 16:55, we board the 55 bus to Fjörður, arriving at 1747 Thursday evening.

http://s.straeto.is/

 

[Springs Branch]

We take a local bus to another of Reykjavik's bus interchanges, which seems to be the departure point for some of Iceland's longer-distance routes.

The 1752 route 21 from Fjörður to Mjódd arriving 1816 Thursday evening.

Source: www.straeto.is/english/plan-your-journey/schedules-and-maps