The Transport Game (UK)

[johnnychips]

It's a half-mile nine minute walk to the bus station, where we take the Stagecoach 1000 X5 service to Cambridge Parkside arriving 1340 on Thursday afternoon.

And that makes you realise how much the East-West rail link is needed!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1410 Stagecoach Bedford coach service X5 to Buckingham (High Street) that arrives there at 1647 on Thursday afternoon.

 

[dzug2]

We take Arriva the Shires Max bus X60 at 1655 to Winslow opp Avenue Road on High Street, arriving at 1713 Thursday afternoon

 

[backontrack]

We board the 17:48 Arriva the Shires MAX route X60 bus service to Central Milton Keynes (The Point), arriving there at 18:38 on Thursday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1846 Arriva MK service to Wolverton (Church Street) that arrives there at 1912 on Thursday evening.

 

[backontrack]

We walk to Wolverton rail station and board the 19:36 London Midland service to Birmingham New Street, arriving there at 21:02 on Thursday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next take GWR service 2N16 at 0757 to Oxford where we arrive at 0944 on Thursday morning.

It's too late to do anything about it now but just to let you know the minimum connection time at Paddington is fifteen minutes.

We walk to Wolverton rail station and board the 19:36 London Midland service to Birmingham New Street, arriving there at 21:02 on Thursday evening.

However it turns out that my move to Bristol last time was also invalid as the minimum connection time at New Street is twelve minutes. My service departed ten minutes after. On that basis, we take the same train with plenty of time which is the 2212 CrossCountry service 1V71 to Bristol Parkway, arriving there at 2323 on Thursday evening.

And before anybody makes use of the 0106 to Swansea the 73 still runs late (and possibly the 18 and the 19!)

 

[backontrack]

Ok, got it.

We board the 00:15 Great Western Railway service to Port Talbot Parkway arriving there at 01:33 in the early hours of Friday morning.

Just a quick reminder that Port Talbot has no night buses
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FUN FACT: This is the amount of posts that major cities have on this quiz.

LONDON - 499
MANCHESTER - 494
BRISTOL - 370
BRIGHTON - 170
CARDIFF - 150
GLASGOW - 139
BIRMINGHAM - 119
LIVERPOOL - 100
LEEDS - 96
EDINBURGH - 65
SHEFFIELD - 60
NEWCASTLE - 58
BRADFORD - 22

Let's compare this to populations. Here are the UK's top 10 largest cities:

LONDON - pop. = 7,000,000
BIRMINGHAM - 1,000,000
LEEDS - 720,000
GLASGOW - 620,000
SHEFFIELD - 530,000
BRADFORD - 480,000
LIVERPOOL - 467, 995
EDINBURGH - 450,000
MANCHESTER - 430,000
BRISTOL - 399,000
CARDIFF is 16th.

Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 0412 Great Western Railway service 1L05 to Newport, arriving there at 0528 on Friday morning.

 

[backontrack]

We board the 06:55 CrossCountry service to Nottingham, arriving at 10:03 on Friday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

GENERAL INFORMATION

With the new contestants in mind, there is an excellent website called BR TIMES that gives full information on all minimum connection times of all railway stations that appear on this particular quiz, in addition to other useful information.

 

[backontrack]

GENERAL INFORMATION

With the new contestants in mind, there is an excellent website called BR TIMES that gives full information on all minimum connection times of all railway stations that appear on this particular quiz, in addition to other useful information.

This is the domain of that website:

http://www.brtimes.com/#home

Perhaps this information could be added to the original post of the thread.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We board the 06:55 CrossCountry service to Nottingham, arriving at 10:03 on Friday morning.

We next board the 1034 EMT service to Thetford that arrives there at 1238 on Friday afternoon.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 1324 East Midlands Trains service 1L90 to Birchwood, arriving there at 1756 on Friday afternoon.

 

[backontrack]

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We board the 18:10 Northern Rail service to Manchester Oxford Road, arriving there at 18:36 on Friday afternoon.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Exiting the station to the adjacent bus stop on Whitworth Street, we then board the 1851 Stagecoach Manchester service 101 to Sharston (Altrincham Road/Princess Parkway), arriving there at 1922 on Friday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1936 Stagecoach Manchester service 11A to Timperley (Stonemasons Arms on Stockport Road) that arrives there at 1944 on Friday evening.

 

[kevconnor]

from Timperley, opp Stockport Road/Stonemasons Arms (on Stockport Road) we take Stagecoach Manchester Bus 11a at 2014 as far as Altrincham, Altrincham Interchange (on Stamford New Road) where we arrive at 2020 on Friday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We make our way into the station and over the overbridge to platform 4 where we next board the 2045 Northern service to Cuddington that arrives at 2123 on Friday evening.

 

[backontrack]

We board the 21:55 Northern Rail service to Stockport, arriving there at 22:50 on Friday evening.

 

[dzug2]

We take the 2327 Northern service to Chester, arriving 0044 Saturday morning

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 0336 Arriva Trains Wales service 1H78 to Manchester Airport, arriving there at 0459 on Saturday morning.

 

[backontrack]

We board the 05:58 First TransPennine Express service to Lockerbie, arriving there at 08:30 on Saturday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

NRE gives an arrival time of 0504 on Saturday morning of the Chester to Manchester Airport service

 

[backontrack]

NRE gives an arrival time of 0504 on Saturday morning of the Chester to Manchester Airport service

It does say Saturday already!

Regardless of this fact, my posting is still valid so we are at Lockerbie.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 0911 First TransPennine Express service 1M93 to Preston, arriving there at 1045 on Saturday morning.

 

[backontrack]

We decide that the best way of treating DanTrainMan's aversion to anywhere rural is aversion therapy. So we board the 10:51 Virgin Trains West Coast service to Glasgow Central, arriving there at 13:17 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[kevconnor]

We next take 1S69 1415 Scotrail service to Aberdeen where we arrive at 1715 on Saturday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

I am not going to the middle of nowhere so we return on the 1910 Abellio ScotRail service 1B47 to Edinburgh, arriving there at 2131.

Edinburgh has a minimum connection time of ten minutes (before someone tries to take us back on the 2140 to Aberdeen).

 

[backontrack]

How the hell does Aberdeen count as 'the middle of nowhere'? It's about as big as Bristol, for crying out loud. And we're in Bristol or Cardiff practically every other page.

We board the 21:51 ScotRail service to Helensburgh Central, arriving at 23:46 on Saturday evening.