The Transport Game (UK)

[dzug2]

We make our way to the station and take the 2009 FGW service (hoping desperately it's not a single unit 153) and travel to Castle Cary, arriving one hour later at 2109 Sunday evening

 

[ValleyLines142]

We are surprised to see that a London Paddington service departs ten minutes later, so we board 1A98, the 2119 First Great Western service to London Paddington, arriving there at 2323 on Sunday evening.

 

[dzug2]

We have time to catch the 2347 FGW service, arriving at Didcot Parkway at 0047 Monday morning


using the 'normal' timetable rather than the engineering works one

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then let the hours go by and board 1C01, the 0609 First Great Western service to Bridgend, arriving there at 0825 on Monday morning.

 

[higthomas]

We then let the hours go by and board 1C01, the 0609 First Great Western service to Bridgend, arriving there at 0825 on Monday morning.

We then make the short walk to Bridgend Bus Station, where we board the 0849 First South and West Wales service 32 to Cymmer (Turning Circle), arriving at 0951 on a Monday morning.

 

[bnsf734]

We then wait for the 1017 First South and West Wales service 23, which we take to Blaengwynfi New Road where we arrive at 1031 on Monday morning

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1014 First Cymru service 36 to Maesteg bus station that arrives there at 1036 on Monday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 1133 First South and West Wales service 23 to Port Talbot (Bus Station), arriving there at 1215 on Monday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Let me see if I can still get to Maesteg to replace the posting that I was just too late in posting a couple of postings ago...

We next board the 1230 First South and West Wales service X3 to Maesteg bus station that arrives there at 1255 on Monday afternoon.

NOTE : The Traveline planner still refers to "First Cymru"

 

[higthomas]

Let me see if I can still get to Maesteg to replace the posting that I was just too late in posting a couple of postings ago...

We next board the 1230 First South and West Wales service to Maesteg bus station that arrives there at 1255 on Monday afternoon.

NOTE : The Traveline planner still refers to "First Cymru"

But Paul, which service?

We then board the 1300 First South and West Wales route X3 to Swansea City Bus Station, arriving at 1354 on a Monday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

But Paul, which service?

The X3....I was too involved in trying to remember to make the footnote posting about how Traveline name the operating company that this essential part of my posting was not shown....it is now.
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We then board the 1300 First South and West Wales route X3 to Swansea City Bus Station, arriving at 1354 on a Monday afternoon.

We decide next to sample coach travel and board the 1430 National Express service 201 to Chepstow bus station that arrives there at 1640 on Monday afternoon.

 

[higthomas]

We decide next to sample coach travel and board the 1430 National Express service 201 to Chepstow bus station that arrives there at 1640 on Monday afternoon.

We then take a ride across the Severn bridge on the 1645 First (Severn Express) X7 to Cribbs Causeway Bus Station, arriving at 1710 on a Monday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We are fortunate just to have the minimum 5 minute connection allowance as we board the 1715 First in Bristol, Bath and the West service 73 to Montpelier (Nine Tree Hill) that arrives there at 1821 on Monday evening.

 

[higthomas]

We then walk quickly to Montpelier, Colston Girls School, where we board the 1831 Wessexbus route 11 to Temple Meads Station, arriving at 1852 on a Monday Evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The official 10 minute connection time at this large railway station precludes the use of an interesting service departing at 1900, so we pass a little time noting that this station like York has curved platforms before boarding the 1930 XC service to Leeds that arrives there at 2315 on Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

The official 10 minute connection time at this large railway station precludes the use of an interesting service departing at 1900, so we pass a little time noting that this station like York has curved platforms before boarding the 1930 XC service to Leeds that arrives there at 2052 on Monday evening.

Paul, have you used a rocket to get to Leeds? 2052 is the time this service gets into Birmingham; it gets into Leeds at 2315.

As I'm not sure whether it was Birmingham or Leeds you were going to, I'll briefly make another journey from Bristol just to prevent the game from being delayed, if no one objects?

We board the 1912 First in Bristol, Bath and The West service 1 to Henbury (Crow Lane), arriving there at 1943 on Monday evening, where we'll have a chance to use another CrossCountry service later on.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

As I'm not sure whether it was Birmingham or Leeds you were going to, I'll briefly make another journey from Bristol just to prevent the game from being delayed, if no one objects?

That last posting of mine has been struck-through.

 

[bnsf734]

We the board the 2008 First in Bristol, Bath and The West service 40A to Avonmouth, McLaren Road, arriving there at 2023 on Monday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We continue onwards by boarding the 2053 First in Bristol, Bath and The West service 40A to Bristol (Quay Street) that arrives there at 2123 on Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then catch the 2141 First in Bristol, Bath and The West service 49 to Emersons Green (Sainsbury's), arriving there at 2222 on Monday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

As we are at the terminal point of this service, we next board the 2230 First in Bristol, Bath and The West service 48 to Fishponds (Stanbury Avenue) that arrives there at 2245 on Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 2300 First in Bristol, Bath and The West service 49 to Bristol (Rupert Street), arriving there at 2331 on Monday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buses are still available to use, so we board the 0000 First in Bristol, Bath and The West service 48 to Blackhorse (The Leap) that arrives there at 0025 on Tuesday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Despite there being several other night buses in Bristol, as we've stuck to the 48/49 route our options are somewhat restricted, because we've been to most of the places on the route and we try to avoid going back on ourselves, so we let the hours pass before boarding the 0541 First in Bristol, Bath and The West service 48 to Eastville (Robertson Road), arriving there at 0602 on Tuesday morning.

 

[higthomas]

We now walk over to Eastville, Boswell Street, where we finally board a non-first bus, the 0737 Wessexbus route 506 to Seaton Road, Create Centre, arriving at 0819 on a Tuesday Morning.

 

[bnsf734]

Its too early for the Create Centre so we reboard the 0825 Wessexbus route 506 to Temple Meads Station (stop Tj), arriving at 0837 on a Tuesday Morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sensing the lure of the Cornish Riviera and noting the 10 minute official connection time at this railway station, we are fortunate to be able to catch the 0855 FGW service to Paignton that arrives there at 1127 on Tuesday morning.

 

[Temple Meads]

We then take the short walk to the bus station to board the 11:38 Stagecoach Hop 12 service to Brixham Town Square, where we arrive at 12:00 on Tuesday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We take the short walk to Bank Lane and board the 1210 Stagecoach South West service 12 to Edginswell (Scotts Bridge) that arrives there at 1316 on Tuesday afternoon.

 

[bnsf734]

We then take the 1340 Stagecoach South West service 66 to Newton Abbot Railway Station that arrives there at 1352 on Tuesday afternoon.