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We exit the station to Station Approach and get the 1619 Beeline Coaches service 24 to Warminster (Market Place), arriving at 1641 Wednesday afternoon.
 
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We take the four minute walk to the railway station and board the 1711 Great Western Railway service 1F23 to Portsmouth Harbour, arriving there at 1852 on Wednesday.
 

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We then get the 1920 Wightlink service to Ryde Pier Head, arriving at 1942 Wednesday evening.
 

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With the long term closure of Ryde pier to rail traffic we resort to using the 19.52 SWR (Island Line) replacement minibus to Ryde Esplanade arriving at 19.55 on Wednesday.
 

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We then get the 2015 Southern Vectis service 3 to Newport Bus Station, arriving at 2144 Wednesday evening.
 

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That's a long way round!!!

At 2205 we depart from stand D on Go South Coast (t/a Southern Vectis) service 5, alighting at East Cowes (Well Rd) at 2221 on Wednesday.
 

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We take the three minute (0.2 mile) walk to the Floating Bridge terminal for the 22.30 Cowes Ferry service to West Cowes arriving at 22.33 on Wednesday.
 

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We take the seven minute walk to the Arctic Road stop, where we board the 2252 Southern Vectis service 1 to Newport (Isle of Wight College), arriving there at 2304 on Wednesday.
 

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To stay within the rules, whether tonight or in the morning, only Southern Vectis service 1 is allowable therefore we await the next departure on this route onward at 2314, from which we alight back at Newport Bus Station at 2324 on Wednesday, having done a nice anti-clockwise loop to Cowes and back in 79 minutes 8-) ...
 

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To stay within the rules, whether tonight or in the morning, only Southern Vectis service 1 is allowable therefore we await the next departure on this route onward at 2314, from which we alight back at Newport Bus Station at 2324 on Wednesday, having done a nice anti-clockwise loop to Cowes and back in 79 minutes 8-) ...
But that's a 10 minute journey time? So was this a 0025 arrival if you say 79 minutes?
 

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That's a long way round!!!
I wanted to do it when I was last on the Isle of Wight but didn't get the time unfortunately

But that's a 10 minute journey time? So was this a 0025 arrival if you say 79 minutes?
i think that's from when we left Newport a few postings ago, certainly seems to line up

We then wait for the next morning and get the 0530 Southern Vectis service 3 to Ventnor (Boots), arriving at 0600 Thursday morning.
 

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We then get the 0922 Southern Vectis service 8 to Newport (Long Lane), arriving at 1017 Thursday afternoon.
 

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We next take the 10.35 Southern Vectis service 9 to Ryde Transport Interchange arriving at 11.00 on Thursday.
 

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We then walk across to the Hoverport and get the 1115 Hovertravel service to Southsea Hoverport, arriving at 1125 Thursday morning.
 

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We take the five minute (0.3 mile) walk to the Pier Road bus stop for the 11.33 Stagecoach South service 23 alighting at Havant Bus Station at 12.29 on Thursday.
 

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We then walk the 6 minutes (0.2 miles) to the Station to get the 1249 Southern service 1N28 to Swanwick, arriving at 1310 Thursday afternoon.
 

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We leave the station and take the 13.26 First Portsmouth service 28A to Fareham Bus Station arriving at 13.57 on Thursday.
 

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We then get the 1415 National Express service 030 to Guildford Egerton Road, arriving at 1555 Thursday afternoon.
 

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We then get the 1415 National Express service 030 to Guildford Egerton Road, arriving at 1555 Thursday afternoon.
I take it that is at Tesco.

We take the seven minute (0.4 mile walk to The Chase bus stop for the 16.36 First Berkshire service RA2 to Heathrow, Terminal 3 arriving at 17.45 on Thursday.
 

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We then get the 1803 Metrobus/Go Ahead London on behalf Transport for London service SL7 to Kingston (Cromwell Road), arriving at 1859 Thursday evening.
 

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We next board the 1601 Stagecoach South service 1 to Guildford (Friary Bus Station), arriving there at 1620 on Thursday.

Sorry, didn't refresh the page and didn't realise we had moved on!

We next board the 1915 London United service 481 to Isleworth (West Middlesex Hospital/West London Mental Health Trust), arriving there at 1958 on Thursday.
 

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We next board the 1915 London United service 481 to Isleworth (West Middlesex Hospital/West London Mental Health Trust), arriving there at 1958 on Thursday.
Operator is Metroline.

We take the short walk to bus stop HC on Twickenham Road for the 20.14 Transport UK service 267 to Hammersmith Bus Station arriving at 20.44 on Thursday.
 

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We exit the Bus Station and cross the road to the H&C part of Hammersmith station and get the 2100 Hammersmith and City line service all the way through to Barking, arriving at 2157 Thursday evening.
 

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We next take the 22.09 London Overground service 2J32 to Gospel Oak arriving at 22.44 on Thursday.
 

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We transfer to the Underground and get the 2339 Central line service to West Ruislip, arriving just after midnight at 0005 Friday morning.
 

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We leave the station and take the 00.13 Metroline service U1 to West Drayton Station arriving at 00.42 on Friday.
 

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