The Transport Game (UK)

[-Colly405-]

I disappear for the day and find that we are just a few miles from home...

So, we take what may be our first jounrey on the new-ish First West of England metrobus service m4, departing (from memory, oh yes, I'm right ) at 1200. We alight at Stoke Gifford, Parkway North P&R at 1218 on Wednesday.

Now even closer to home, maybe we have time to nip home for a coffee

 

[A0]

We'll allow a 10 minute walk to Bristol Parkway station ~0.3 mile and then we'll wait for the 1250 Great Western service to Worcester Foregate Street, which we'll take as far as Gloucester arriving at 1329 Wednesday afternoon.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We exit the station and cross over to the transport hub, where we board the 1400 Stagecoach West service 23 to Westbury-on-Severn (Surgery), arriving there at 1422 on Wednesday afternoon.

 

[A0]

We exit the station and cross over to the transport hub, where we board the 1400 Stagecoach West service 23 to Westbury-on-Severn (Surgery), arriving there at 1422 on Wednesday afternoon.

Looking at Bustimes.org - I think you've got the route number wrong - looks like it's a 22 which arrives at that time, not a 23.

We'll wait until 1452 for the next 23 which is heading for Coleford and we'll take it to Lydney Bus Station arriving at 1513.

 

[-Colly405-]

Let's depart at 1532 on Chepstow Classic Buses service 791. We alight at Blakeney, Viney Hill Turn at 1555 on Wednesday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Looking at Bustimes.org - I think you've got the route number wrong - looks like it's a 22 which arrives at that time, not a 23.

We'll wait until 1452 for the next 23 which is heading for Coleford and we'll take it to Lydney Bus Station arriving at 1513.

Indeed, I think they both share the same route though, so shouldn't make a difference to timings. Serves me right for skiving fron a Zoom meeting in work!!

Let's depart at 1532 on Chepstow Classic Buses service 791. We alight at Blakeney, Viney Hill Turn at 1555 on Wednesday.

We next board the 1611 Stagecoach West service 23 (I hope!) to Gloucester (Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum), arriving there at 1652 on Wednesday afternoon.

 

[A0]

Indeed, I think they both share the same route though, so shouldn't make a difference to timings. Serves me right for skiving fron a Zoom meeting in work!!

Good to know I'm not the only one - though in my case Teams rather than Zoom !

We next board the 1611 Stagecoach West service 23 (I hope!) to Gloucester (Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum), arriving there at 1652 on Wednesday afternoon.

OK - as options from here are limited, we'll walk around the corner to Gloucester Docks (0.3m / 5 mins) and we'll then take the 1706 Stagecoach West service to Cheltenham arriving at Cheltenham Promenade at 1805 Wednesday evening.

 

[mangyiscute]

Next we will hop on a 51 service at 18:30 and take it to Cirencester forum, arriving at 20:20 on Wednesday evening.

a very pleasant route, so hopefully its still daylight at this time of year

 

[A0]

Arriving at this hour appears to leave the following options -

1= re-board the 51 and continue onto Swindon
2= take one of two National Express (the first of which is in 1 hour's time) that take us back to Gloucester
3= take the overnight at Cirencester

As it's relatively early, I'm going to propose we re-board the Stagecoach West 51 leaving at 2023 and continue onto Swindon Bus station arriving at 2125 Wednesday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Next we will hop on a 51 service at 18:30 and take it to Cirencester forum, arriving at 20:20 on Wednesday evening.

a very pleasant route, so hopefully its still daylight at this time of year

Arriving at this hour appears to leave the following options -

1= re-board the 51 and continue onto Swindon
2= take one of two National Express (the first of which is in 1 hour's time) that take us back to Gloucester
3= take the overnight at Cirencester

As it's relatively early, I'm going to propose we re-board the Stagecoach West 51 leaving at 2023 and continue onto Swindon Bus station arriving at 2125 Wednesday evening.

To be fair, @mangyiscute has added an extra hour. It's a 19:20 arrival into Cirencester so we'd have to wait another hour anyway which would be the 20:23.

Anyway, from Swindon, we next board the 2135 Swindon Bus Company service 17 to Park South (Whitbourne House), arriving there at 2144 on Wednesday evening.

 

[mangyiscute]

To be fair, @mangyiscute has added an extra hour. It's a 19:20 arrival into Cirencester so we'd have to wait another hour anyway which would be the 20:23.

Anyway, from Swindon, we next board the 2135 Swindon Bus Company service 17 to Park South (Whitbourne House), arriving there at 2144 on Wednesday evening.

I'm just predicting that the 18:30 was cancelled, since there's no chance our journey goes this cleanly (I in fact just can't read)

 

[A0]

Anyway, from Swindon, we next board the 2135 Swindon Bus Company service 17 to Park South (Whitbourne House), arriving there at 2144 on Wednesday evening.

Finding ourselves hardly spoilt for choice, we board the next 17 at 2214 back to Swindon Bus Station arriving at 2230 Wednesday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 2235 Stagecoach West Gold service S6 to Faringdon (Market Place), arriving there at 2314 on Wednesday evening.

 

[mangyiscute]

We decide to spend the night in this lovely town, and then wake up for the 06:55 Thames Travel service 67 to Wantage Market Place, where we arrive at 07:23

 

[HST43257]

Feeling like a return to railway territory, we decide to take the 0744 BB4 bus to Melton Drive, Didcot, arriving at 0814

 

[-Colly405-]

Can we remember to post the game-play day of the week please

Let's walk to Didcot Parkway station (4 min / 0.2 mile) and board 1C05, GWR's 0841 service towards Bristol. We alight at Bath Spa at 0920 on Thursday.

 

[A0]

We'll wait for the 0936 Great Western service heading to Portsmouth Harbour, but we'll alight at Romsey at 1051 Thursday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We exit the station and take the seven minute walk down Alma Road to the bus stop of the same name, where we board the 1101 Bluestar service 4 to Shirley (Lidl), arriving there at 1141 on Thursday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1147 Bluestar service 19 to Shirley Warren General Hospital (stop A) that arrives there at 1159 on Thursday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1206 Unilink service U6C to University of Southampton (Highfield Interchange), arriving there at 1223 on Thursday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1233 Unilink service U1A to Swaythling (Walnut Avenue/Wide Lane) that arrives there at 1242 on Thursday afternoon.

 

[-Colly405-]

Let's walk (6 min / 0.3 mile) to the aforenamed railway station and leave on 2S35, SWR's 1327 service to Salisbury via Southampton. We alight at Dean at 1402 on Thursday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1408 South Western Railway service 2R50 to Chandlers Ford, arriving there at 1455 on Thursday afternoon.

 

[-Colly405-]

Let's walk to the northbound precinct stop on Winchester Rd (3 min / 0.2 mile) where we board the 1514 journey on Go South Coast, t/a Bluestar, service 1. We alight at Winchester (The Arc, stop Ta) at 1539 on Thursday.

 

[HST43257]

We feel like a return to the rails, and take the 1556 SWR service from Winchester to Fleet, arriving at 1626 on Thursday afternoon

 

[A0]

Continuing on the rails we'll take the 1638 SWR service to Basingstoke arriving at 1658 Thursday afternoon.

 

[-Colly405-]

SWR's 1L49 at 1707, heading towards Exeter, takes us to Honiton where we alight at 1917 on Thursday.

 

[mangyiscute]

Deciding we don't wish to take the train again, we don't have too many options and choose to board the Stagecoach South West service 9 at 19:48 to Sidmouth Triangle where we arrive at 20:18 on Thursday evening

 

[HST43257]

Once again left with minimal options, we depart Sidmouth on the 2120 no.9 bus to just outside Sowton Park&Ride, arriving at 2150 on Thursday evening

 

[-Colly405-]

We are conveniently placed for the 2157 Stagecoach South West South West Falcon, which we take to Plymouth (Laira Flyover) at 2252 on Thursday.