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Andy Pacer

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We leave the station and from the nearby Vale Drive bus stop we take the 07.59 Stagecoach East Midlands service 12 to Mansfield alighting at Market Warsop, Woodland Grove at o8.17 on Saturday.
Are we at the bus stop named "Church Street" at 0827?
 
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Andy Pacer

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We walk for 4 minutes, 0.2 mile to the railway station and await the 0945 East Midlands Railway service to Hucknall arriving there at 1001 on Saturday morning.
 

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Having arrived back where we started the day we next take the 11.01 Stagecoach East Midlands service 141 to Sutton In Ashfield Bus Station arriving at 12.23 on Saturday.
 

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We next board the 1231 Trent Barton The Threes service 3A to Nottingham City Hospital, arriving there at 1337 on Saturday morning.
 

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Next we walk to the bus stop opposite and wait for the 1350 Nottingham City Transport service 16 to Top Valley, Tesco arriving at 1402 on Saturday.
 

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We take the five minute walk to the Top Valley Way bus stop on Hucknall Road just in time for the 14.08 trentbarton service 3C alighting at Kirkby in Ashfield, Nags Head at 14.36 on Saturday.
 

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We next take the 15.38 trentbarton service 33 to Ilkeston, Market Place arriving at 16.56 on Saturday.
 

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Assuming we're in Giltbrook, we're very limited for options here so we can either return back to Ilkeston or stop off and return in the morning for the 0817 Trent Barton service 34 to Hucknall (Tram Park & Ride), arriving there at 0849 on Sunday morning.
 

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A very short walk over to Hucknall railway station, and then catch the 0919 East Midlands Railway train to Nottingham, arriving 0938 (Sunday morning).
 

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Bit limited here especially on a Sunday, and to avoid doubling back to Skeggy we wait for the 1358 East Midlands Railway service 2O14 to Radcliffe, arriving there at 1411 on Sunday afternoon.
 

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We walk (4 mins) to the New Rd bus stop on Main Rd, where we board trentbarton service mainline at 1424. We alight at Bingham (Long Acre) at 1435 on Sunday.
 

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We take the five minute walk to Market Place from where we take the 15.35 Vectare service 90B to Newark Bus Station arriving at 16.05 on Sunday.
 

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Good to see some Vectare usage!

Next we cross the road and wait for the 1736 Trent Barton 'The Cotgrave' service to Cotgrave, Bramble Way arriving at 1751 on Sunday.
 

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With only the aforementioned trentbarton the cotgrave running here on a Sunday, we await the next journey which departs at 1851. We alight at Nottingham Railway Station (stop SS) at 1915 on Sunday.
 

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We enter the station and take the 19.59 EMR service to St. Pancras arriving at 21.55 on Sunday.
 

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As I no doubtly imagined, that was it for the rest of the day. In the morning we return to the bus stop outside the station and board the 0554 Stagecoach Midlands Gold service X4 to Peterborough (Kirkwood Close), arriving there at 0658 on Monday morning.
 

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Not wanting to retrace our recent steps, we wait until 0912 and depart on Dews Coaches service 29. We alight at Hampton, Serpentine Green (stop 1) at 0928 on Monday.
 

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Yes this was the issue I was having at Orton Waterville.

We next board the 0955 Stagecoach East service 5A to Dogsthorpe (Central Avenue Church), arriving there at 1047 on Monday morning.
 

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We walk (8 min / 0.4 mile) to Almond Rd stop where we board Stagecoach East service 5 at 1114. We alight at Stanground, Aldi at 1147 on Monday.
 

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We next take the 12.35 Stagecoach East service 31 to Ramsey, New Road arriving at 13.22 on Monday.
 

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Not much leaving here soon (except the 1326 31 which may or may not be the same vehicle at this time of day) so we depart at 1548 on Dews Coaches service 305, alighting at Chatteris, East Park Street at 1608 on Monday.
 

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