The Transport Game (UK)

[Bacon_BMW]

After grabbing a drink and a bite to eat at the pub, we board the 2150 First Norfolk & Suffolk service X1 to Norwich (Bus Station), arriving at 2210 on Friday evening.

 

[LUYMun]

We walk over to Stand A to catch the 22:20 Konnectbus service 8 to Toftwood, disembarking at Dereham (Market Place) at 22:57 on Friday evening.

 

[-Colly405-]

We cannot leave Dereham this late on a Friday, so we take advantage of the overnight rule and await an early bus that doesn't just take us limited-stop back to where we came from, as I don't fancy that! As this is Saturday, "early" isn't that early!
We therefore board Konectbus service 4 at 0655, heading towards Norwich. We take it as far as Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Forecort (Stand A) where we alight at 0742 on Saturday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 0815 First in Norfolk & Suffolk service 11A to Sprowston (the bus stop adjacent to Overstrand Way on Atlantic Avenue) that arrives there at 0903 on Saturday morning.

 

[DerekC]

We don't want to take the same bus back and happily we find that Sprowston Park and Ride is just within our half mile walking range. We are in time to catch the 09:25 Konectbus service 502 to Norwich (Bus Station) where we arrive at 09:45 on Saturday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We take the five minute walk to the bus stop opposite Kings Lane on Queens Road and there board the 1011 Borderbus service 146 to Southwold (Kings Head PH) that arrives there at 1135 on Saturday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1210 First Norfolk & Suffolk Coastal Clipper service 99 to Lowestoft (Bus Station), arriving there at 1303 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1320 First in Norfolk & Suffolk service 1A to Martham (the bus stop adjacent to The Green on Repps Road) that arrives there at 1458 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[-Colly405-]

We cross the road and take First Norfolk & Suffolk Coastal Clipper service 1 at 1521, alighting at Caister-on-Sea (Police Station) at 1557 on Saturday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1602 First Norfolk & Suffolk service 8 to Gorleston (the bus stop opposite Trafalgar Road on High Street) that arrives there at 1635 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[-Colly405-]

We take First Norfolk & Suffolk Coastal Reds service 6 at 1640, and head back to Great Yarmouth (Market Gates), arriving at 1654 on Saturday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We take the three minute walk to the railway station and there board the 1717 Greater Anglia service to Brundall Gardens that arrives there at 1740 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We exit the station to find that we are just within the permitted 0.5 mile boundary for onward travel, so, by taking the eleven minute walk to the bus stop on Cucumber Lane, we board the 1814 First Norfolk & Suffolk Network Norwich Green Line service 15A to Wymondham (Cross), arriving there at 1925 on Saturday evening.

 

[-Colly405-]

We are again just within the permitted 0.5 mile boundary for walking, this time 10 minutes to to Wymondham railway station. We board 1K93, Greater Anglia's 1939 service towards Stansted Airport, which we take as far as Ely where we arrive at 2026 on Saturday.

 

[A Challenge]

We then get the 2053 Great Northern service 1T63 to London Kings Cross, arriving at 2203 Saturday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Transferring to the Thameslink platforms at St Pancras International, we next board the 2242 Thameslink service 9V81 to Wimbledon, arriving there at 2323 on Saturday evening.

 

[-Colly405-]

We board 2F73, South Western Railway's 2336 service towards Woking, from which we alight at Surbiton at 2344 on Saturday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We exit the station and board the 2357 London United service 281 to Hounslow (Bus Station), arriving there at 0036 in the early hours of Sunday morning.

 

[merry]

Since it's too late to walk to Hounslow East tube (last service just left), we take the TfL N9 Bus from stop F at 0057 to London Museum of Water And Steam, arriving stop Y 0107.
It's closed, but perhaps we can get a peek over the edge from the top deck, or look over a wall?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Noting it is Sunday morning and that we are in Brentford, we take the two minute walk to The Musical Museum, where we board the 0129 London United service N65 to Ealing (Bond Street) that arrives there at 0138 on Sunday morning.

 

[LUYMun]

We walk to the end of the street to the Christchurch bus stop, where we catch the 01:50 Abellio London (on behalf of TfL) service N207 to Uxbridge, Belmont Road, arriving there 02:29 on Sunday morning.

 

[DerekC]

Feeling rather tired and wishing to avoid getting back on the next N207, we walk 200 yards to the station and kip down on a handy bench until it's time for the first train out, the 06:37 Metropolitan Line service to Aldgate, where we arrive at 07:31 on Sunday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leaving the station, we take the two minute walk to St Botolph Street and there board the 0738 East London service 205 to Whitechapel (Royal London Hospital) that arrives there at 0743 on Sunday morning.

 

[-Colly405-]

We walk into Whitechapel station and board 9G10, London Overground's 0800 to Queens Road Peckham, arriving at 0815 on Sunday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 0827 Southern service to Purley that arrives there at 0909 on Sunday morning.

 

[-Colly405-]

We next board 9R20, Thameslink's 0928 service towards Bedford, from which we alight at Luton at 1046 on Sunday.

 

[A Challenge]

We exit the station to LS10, and then get the 1057 Arriva in Beds and Bucks service A to Dunstable (Asda (Stop J1)), arriving at 1111 Sunday morning

 

[LUYMun]

Having done a bit of shopping, we notice that the only departures on a Sunday travel back to Luton, so we take a five-minute walk to the Quadrant bus stops. There, we assess what services go where. It turns out that there is also one departure, which doesn't stop at the ASDA, that doesn't go to Luton. So, rather than be put up by moaning co-travellers about going back to Luton, we take the 11:30 Arriva Herts & Bucks service F70 towards Milton Keynes, but we disembark at Leighton Buzzard, West Street, arriving there at 11:55 on Sunday morning.

 

[A Challenge]

We then get the 1235 Arriva in Beds and Bucks service 150 MAX to Aylesbury Bus Station, arriving at 1315 Sunday afternoon.

 

[LUYMun]

Unfortunately we no longer live in 1966, where we were able to hop on a train via the Great Central Main Line to travel up north (nowadays not much further north than Aylesbury Vale Parkway, and East-West Rail has not yet arrived!). We also missed the departure via Amersham after our two minute walk to the rail station, instead we board the 13:33 Chiltern Railways 2H33 service to London Marylebone (via High Wycombe), but we get off the train at Princes Risborough, arriving there at 13:50.