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Leaving the station, we next board the 2103 National Express West Midlands service 6 to Aldridge (Shopping Centre), arriving there at 2119 on Thursday evening.
Being one minute out of connection time to board the 2242 service, we next board the 2312 National Express West Midlands service 4 to Blackheath (the bus stop adjacent to Regis Heath Road on Oldbury Road) that arrives there at 2332 on Thursday evening.
With there being no more services from the neighbouring Rowley Regis station for the rest of the day, we stop off for the night here and return taking the the ten minute/0.4 mile walk to Blackheath Market, where we board the 0536 National Express West Midlands service 13A to Edgbaston (The Ivy Bush), arriving there at 0602 on Friday morning.
We walk (7 min / 0.3 mile) to the Edgbaston Village tram stop where we board the West Midlands Metro at 0615. We alight at Jewellery Quarter metro stop at 0634 on Friday.
Thwarted when I was about to post a journey on the Select Bus Services service 436 from Bridgnorth, Sainsburys to Shrewsbury bus station, departing at 0945 and arriving at 1044...
Instead a short journey from Compton, Square, on the 1044 National Express West Midlands service 10A to Perton (Sainsburys) that arrives there at 1057 on Friday morning.
We next board the 1217 National Express West Midlands service 1 to Dudley (Evolve Campus on Tower Street) that arrives there at 1254 on Friday afternoon.
We next board the 1726 National Express West Midlands service 18 to Druids Heath (the bus stop near Broadmeadow Close on Monyhull Hall Road) that arrives there at 1759 on Friday afternoon.
We next board the 1945 National Express West Midlands service 76 to Blossomfield (the bus stop opposite Dingle Lane on Blossomfield Road) that arrives there at 2026 on Friday evening.
We next board the 2056 National Express West Midlands Platinum Electric service 6 to Sparkbrook (Palmerston Road), arriving there at 2126 on Friday evening.
Time for an overnight break before taking the eight minute walk to the St. Laurence Road bus stop for the 06.41 National Express WM service 20 to Bromsgrove Bus Station arriving at 07.16 on Saturday.
Time for a late breakfast then from the nearby Grange Lane bus stop we take the 11.14 First Worcestershire service 417 alighting at Ledbury Railway Station at 11.48 on Saturday.
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