The Transport Game (UK)

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The 4 minute walk to the bus stop on Kingsway is just time to enough to allow us to board the 1835 Stagecoach in South Wales service X15 to Nantglo (Garn Cross) that arrives there at 1946 on Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

The 4 minute walk to the bus stop on Kingsway is just time to enough to allow us to board the 1835 Stagecoach in South Wales service X15 to Nantglo (Garn Cross) that arrives there at 1946 on Monday evening.

That's definitely more than four minutes away. Newport is just down the road from me. I would say it's at least a ten minute walk, especially now the bus station has been demolished and one is required to walk along the A4042.

Edit: Google Maps confirms from Market Square Bus Station to the bus stop at the Kingsway is a nine minute walk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

That's definitely more than four minutes away. Newport is just down the road from me. I would say it's at least a ten minute walk, especially now the bus station has been demolished and one is required to walk along the A4042.

Edit: Google Maps confirms from Market Square Bus Station to the bus stop at the Kingsway is a nine minute walk.

Blame this "dodgy" information as coming from Traveline Cymru's general "help" information, as personally speaking and never have been in this location, I do tend to rely on being told "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" by such "information" help sites

I have deleted my posting and we are still at..... Newport (Market Square) at 1830 on Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Blame this "dodgy" information as coming from Traveline Cymru's general "help" information, as personally speaking and never have been in this location, I do tend to rely on being told "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" by such "information" help sites

I have deleted my posting and we are still at..... Newport (Market Square) at 1830 on Monday evening.

Traveline Cymru isn't the best of sources!

If it's any help, Newport railway station is 0.4 miles away

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We then board the 1735 Newport Bus service 60 to Newport (Market Square), arriving there at 1830 on Monday evening.

We are told to go to Bay 21 where we board to 1905 Cardiff Bus service 30 to Llanrumney (Carpenters Arms PH on Newport Road) that arrives there at 1930 on Monday evening.

 

[Class172]

We've recently had a couple of queries regarding moves played on the 25th/26th December — you seem to have understood it fully but to clarify, this game doesn't follow dates for services, only the days of the week, so continue to play as you would at any other time.

Merry Christmas to all.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 1950 Cardiff Bus service 30 to Cardiff (Central Bus Station), arriving there at 2009 on Monday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We continue by boarding the 2015 Stagecoach in South Wales service 132 to Maerdy (Maerdy Court) that arrives there at 2138 on Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 2145 Stagecoach in South Wales service 132 to Taffs Well (Railway Station), arriving there at 2250 on Monday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We enter the railway station and board the 2320 ATW service to Llandaf that arrives at 2326 on Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then call it a night before boarding 2Y03, the 0534 Arriva Trains Wales service to Cadoxton, arriving there at 0611 on Tuesday morning.

 

[dzug2]

We continue on the 0636 ATW departure and travel to Quakers Yard, arriving at 0738 Tuesday morning

 

[ValleyLines142]

Continuing our travels across the Welsh Valleys, we then join the commuters on board a packed pair of Class 150s on 2E12, the 0755 Arriva Trains Wales service to Cardiff Queen Street, arriving there at 0835 on Thesday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Away into the "hilly hinterland" again as we board the 0845 ATW service to Aberdare which arrives at 0946 on Thursday morning.

 

[johnnychips]

Let's take the 1010 Stagecoach in Wales 6 service to Merthyr Tydfil from Aberdare Bus Station arriving at Merthyr Bus Station at 1040 on Thursday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Moving across to the railway station, we then board 2E28, the 1138 Arriva Trains Wales service to Bridgend, arriving there at 1338 on Tuesday afternoon.

 

[dzug2]

We take the 1438 ATW service to Cheltenham Spa, arriving at 1634 Tuesday afternoon

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We change TOC and board the 1711 XC service to Edinburgh that arrives there at 2303 on Tuesday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board 1D63, the 2316 ScotRail service to Motherwell, arriving there at 0021 in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

There are nothing to wait for now but there are a number of early morning services that call here from 0540 to 0600, so we choose the earliest of these and board the 0540 FSR service to Cumbernauld that arrives there at 0600 on Wednesday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board 2F05, the 0612 ScotRail service to Glasgow Central, arriving there at 0719 on Wednesday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Being careful to note the minimum connection time that applies at this large railway station, we next board the 0737 Virgin service to Wigan North Western that arrives there at 1009 on Wednesday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board 9M51, the 1028 Virgin Trains service to Sandwell & Dudley, arriving there at 1154 on Wednesday morning.

 

[johnnychips]

Then we cross over to the Bromford Rd stop and take the 1206 National Express West Midlands service 4 arriving West Bromwich bus station at 1213 on Wednesday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We then board the 1227 NXWM service 79 to Wolverhampton bus station that arrives there at 1323 on Wednesday afternoon.

 

[johnnychips]

We walk to the Art Gallery and get the 1351 Select Bus service 877 arriving at Brewood Post Office at 1416 on Wednesday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

He we find ourselves in the land of infrequent bus services, so we decide we might accept the long wait as this will give us a bus service that will take us a good distance away, so eventually, we board the 1626 Select Bus Services service 877 to Stafford (Gaol Square) that arrives there at 1725 on Wednesday afternoon.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Can I just say, not that it at all matters, that the 76 bus runs every hour through this location, so not too infreqent!

We next board the 1747 First in Staffordshire and South Cheshire (part of First Potteries operations) service 101 to Newcastle-under-Lyne (Bus Station), arriving there at 1851 on Wednesday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Time to make a visit to a medical establishment to have our cognitive memories checked and we board the 1901 First in Staffordshire and South Cheshire service 3 to Leighton Hospital that arrives there at 2043 on Wedneday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

For some bizarre reason, there are no more buses out of the hospital at this time, so we have no option but to steal a bed from a patient and call it a night, before we board the 0656 First in Staffordshire and South Cheshire service 3 to Crewe (Railway Station), arriving there at 0718 on Thursday morning.