Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
We walk 0.5 miles (10 mins) to Hastings Town Centre, Priory Meadow, Stop K (on Queen's Road) where at 2044 we take Stagecoach in Hastings Bus 26A to St Helens, o/s Conquest Hospital (on Hospital Grounds) where we arrive at 2059 on Monday night.
We take the short 0.2 mile (2 minute) walk to the stop at Silverhill (Hastings), Asda from where we are just in time at 2122 to board Stagecoach in Hastings - Hastings Arrow 20 service and travel as far as Hastings Town Centre, Pelham Place (Stop U) where we arrive at 2145 on Monday evening
That appears to be it for the evening, so having taken an overnight break we next go to the stop at Ore, Rye Road Red Lake Terrace where at 0603 we board Stagecoach in Hastings - the Wave 100 service as far as Rye, Railway Station (Stop B) where we arrive at 0627 on Tuesday morning.
Entering the station, we say farewell to East Sussex as we board the 0646 Southern service 2D06 to Ashford International, arriving there at 0708 on Tuesday.
Weeping at the fact we can't board the Eurostar, we opt for the next best thing: the 08:34 East Midlands Trains service (HST operated, I think) to Nottingham, arriving there at 10:16 on a Tuesday.
Whilst observing the minimum 8 min connection time for this station we are still able to board 1026 2W08 East Midlands Trains service as far as Mansfield where we arrive at 1057 on Tuesday morning.
Taking the three minute walk along Station Road to the bus station, we then board the 1150 Stagecoach East Midlands service 53 to Manor Top (Eastern Avenue), arriving there at 1311 on Tuesday afternoon.
Stretching our legs, we take the 10 minute, 0.5 mile walk to Birks Holt Drive, where we board the 18:34 First South Yorkshire service X1 'Steel Link' to Sheffield Centre Moor Market (Stop ES3), arriving at 19:48Tuesday evening.
We then board the 20:35 First South Yorkshire/Stagecoach Yorkshire service 1 to Chapeltown, adj Burncross Road, arriving exactly one hour later at 21:35 Tuesday evening.
Crossing the bridge to Forge Island bus station, we then board the 22:45 Stagecoach East Midlands service 19a to Dinnington Interchange, arriving at 23:23Tuesday evening.
We stop off overnight and return for the 0443 First South Yorkshire service X5 to Handsworth (Handsworth Road/Top of Richmond Road), arriving there at 0519 on Wednesday morning.
Walking around the corner to the bus stop outside Queens Park, we then board the 1813 First Portsmouth, Fareham & Gosport 'Solent Ranger' service X5 to Lee-on-the-Solent (High Street), arriving there at 1939 on Wednesday evening.
We are aware of an issue with emails from the Forum to Microsoft-based email accounts (hotmail/outlook/live.com email addresses). This is being looked into currently, thanks for your patience meanwhile.