The Transport Game (UK)

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deciding to ignore the services offered at the LU station, we continue onwards by boarding the 2223 London United service H91 to Hammersmith bus station that arrives there at 2255 on Wednesday evening.

 

[James Wake]

We next board the 2305 London United route 10 to Euston Station, Bus Stn, arriving at 2344 on Wednesday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Continuing our late night travelogue and needing to stretch our legs somewhat, we take the six minute walk to the British Library bus stop on Euston Road and board the 2357 East London service 205 to Bow bus garage that arrives there at 0032 on Thursday morning.

 

[James Wake]

Taking the short walk around to Bow Church DLR station we next board the 0037 Tower Transit service 25 to Ilford, Hainault Street arriving at 0104 on Thursday morning.

 

[dzug2]

We return on the 25 at 0117 and travel to St Paul's Station, Newgate Street, arriving at 0201 on Thursday morning

 

[James Wake]

We take the short walk to the bus stop at St Pauls Churchyard and board the 0212 Stagecoach London service N199 to Bromley Civic Centre, arriving at 0313 on Thursday morning.

 

[dzug2]

We take London buses N3 service at 0346, and travel to Trafalgar Square, Cockspur Street arriving at 0440 Thursday morning

 

[James Wake]

We next board the 0456 London United service N97 to Charing Cross Hospital, arriving at 0521 on Thursday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 0538 London United service 220 to Willesden Junction station that arrives there at 0556 on Thursday morning.

 

[dzug2]

We take the 0621 LO train to Watford Junction, arriving at 0657 Thursday morning

 

[johnnychips]

We take the 0710 LM train to Milton Keynes Central arriving 0748 on Thursday morning.

 

[dzug2]

We leave the station and take the Stagecoach X5 bus at 0815, travelling to Buckingham High Street, where we arrive at 0837 Thursday morning

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 0842 Arriva the Shires service 60 to Aylesbury bus station that arrives there at 0935 on Thursday morning.

 

[Springs Branch]

Making good use of our 5 minutes minimum connection time within Aylesbury Bus Station, we board Arriva South East Sapphire service 280, leaving at 0940, arriving in Oxford City Centre (Carfax) at 1058 Thursday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

I cannot believe we ended up in the capital again!

Oxford station is just within the 0.5 mile boundary, so we head there and board the 1139 CrossCountry service 1M38 to Manchester Piccadilly, arriving there at 1434 on Thursday afternoon.

 

[Springs Branch]

Exiting Piccadilly station to the bus stop at London Road / Fairfield Street we board Stagecoach Manchester service 192 at 1446 as far as Longsight, Stockport Road / Slade Lane arriving at 1458 Thursday afternoon.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 1527 Stagecoach Manchester service 168 to Chorlton (Bus Station), arriving there at 1608 on Thursday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We take a 6-minute walk to the bus stop on Stanley Grove to board the service a different service operator and next board the 1514 First Manchester service 53 to Cheetham Hill (Crescent Road shops) that arrives there at 1603 on Thursday afternoon.
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We then board the 1527 Stagecoach Manchester service 168 to Chorlton (Bus Station), arriving there at 1608 on Thursday afternoon.

We next board the 1630 Stagecoach Manchester service 22 to Bolton bus station that arrives there at 1825 on Thursday afternnon

 

[Springs Branch]

We transfer to the 1832 Stagecoach Wigan service 540 to Hindley, Bird i' th' Hand, arriving 1918 Thursday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 2013 Stagecoach Manchester service 33 to Langworthy (Metrolink stop), arriving there at 2106 on Thursday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crossing the road to the adjacent bus stop, we next board the 2115 Stagecoach Manchester service 50 to Burnage (Fog Lane) that arrives there at 2158 on Thursday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

From nearby Burnage Lane, we then board the 2226 Stagecoach Manchester service 169 to Droylsden (Shopping Centre), arriving there at 2257 on Thursday evening.

 

[Springs Branch]

It's ¼-mile walk to the Droylsden Metrolink stop, where we catch the 2317 Metrolink tram to Piccadilly Gardens arriving 2338 Thursday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then take the short walk to Piccadilly station, where we board the 0050 First TransPennine Express service 1P02 to Leeds, arriving there at 0158 in the early hours of Friday morning.

 

[James Wake]

We next board the 0220 FirstTranspennine Express service to Manchester Airport, arriving at 0400 on Friday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 0440 Northern service 1F90 to Liverpool Lime Street, arriving there at 0535 on Friday morning.

 

[James Wake]

Next onto the 0605 Virgin Trains service, as tempted as I am to take us back to the capital, we bail at Lichfield Trent Valley at 0708 on Friday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We join the commuters in the morning rush hour towards Birmingham as we board the 0720 London Midland service 2R13 to Bournville, arriving there at 0814 on Friday morning.

 

[James Wake]

To give us plenty of onward travel options, we next board the 0819 London Midland service to Birmingham New Street, arriving at 0832 on Friday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Does the 0537 from Cheltenham Spa to Gloucester still run?

It does, however we had only been travelling between Cheltenham and Gloucester in the last post, so what would have been the point in returning back towards Gloucester again? Furthermore, only literally in the post before mine (post #6521), dzug2 had just stated the exact same sentiment, hence taking my next move to Lawrence Hill. This game is about being creative Paul

To give us plenty of onward travel options, we next board the 0819 London Midland service to Birmingham New Street, arriving at 0832 on Friday morning.

Exiting this mighty huge station, we take the short walk to the bus stop outside the Art Gallery and board the 0851 National Express West Midlands service 141 to Merry Hill (Bus Station), arriving there at 0957 on Friday morning.