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The Transport Game (UK)

Andy Pacer

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Its strange isn't it - what different people perceive as frequently visited areas - for me, I see this acurrent area of south-west London and trentbartonland as the 2 regular areas, but not so much Thameslink or Oxford!
Indeed, I come out in cold sweats when we end up in London too often, or places like Reading where there is a lot of out and back.Buses in South Wales I find tedious (mainly because all the places are hard to spell!). But there is of course the option to leave others to it and return when the gMe has literally moved on a bit.

I am partial to a bit of Arriva in the Midlands, but probably mainly due to my day job as a bus scheduler so I know the patch well!
 
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Remember that I was on the first incarnation of this quiz (where @Zoe was the pedant to end all pedants) then on this re-launched version of the quiz and my memory will go back as far as those early days and it was over the whole period (not the recent period) where an Oxford arrival saw my heart sink.
Perhaps so but that ship has long sailed now, times have changed and it's time to move on :)
Indeed, I come out in cold sweats when we end up in London too often, or places like Reading where there is a lot of out and back.Buses in South Wales I find tedious (mainly because all the places are hard to spell!). But there is of course the option to leave others to it and return when the gMe has literally moved on a bit.

I am partial to a bit of Arriva in the Midlands, but probably mainly due to my day job as a bus scheduler so I know the patch well!
The one good thing about London is that you can constantly keep moving. You'll never get stuck in the same place as we do in Derby/Nottingham. Can't say I personally feel the same about Reading; I personally can't recall there being a source of repetition but then again that's just me! And as for Arriva Midlands, I feel like the Derby/Leicester local routes is very much out to the suburbs and back again which is what drives me mental :lol:

Anyway, plodding along, we walk around the corner to the bus stop on Greenford Road, where we board the 1125 London United service 105 to Cranford (The Avenue), arriving there at 1209 on Friday morning.
 

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We take the six minute walk to Hayes Police Station and board the 1302 Abellio London service 427 to Acton (King Street), arriving there at 1355 on Friday afternoon.
 

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We walk the 0.5 mile (10 mins) to Acton Town and there board the 1414 London Underground District Line to West Ham underground station at 1508 on Friday.
 

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We exit the station and cross to the bus station (stop B2) and there board the 1526 Stagecoach London for TfL service 199, from which we alight at Cutty Sark (Greenwich Town Centre, Nelson Rd, Stop E) at 1555 on Friday
 

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Making use of a transport mode in London other than bus and train, we take the seven minute walk to Greenwich Pier and board the 1608 Thames Clipper service RB1 to Westminster Pier, arriving there at 1651 on Friday afternoon.
 

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Good choice!

We walk up the Victoria Embankment for 9 minutes (0.4 miles) to Embankment station, from where we take the 1703 London Underground Bakerloo line service. We alight at Wembley Central underground station at 1739 on Friday.
 

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We make the 11 minute 0.5 mile walk to Wembley Stadium Station and wait for the 1833 Chiltern Railways service to Beaconsfield arriving at 1901 on Friday.
 

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Not a great deal of buses here, so we wait for the 1928 Chiltern Railways service 2A56 to Princes Risborough, arriving there at 1945 on Friday evening.

Just pipped to the post!
 
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We next board the 1928 Chiltern Railways service to Aylesbury that arrives there at 2005 on Friday evening.
I seem to recall buses in Aylesbury dwindling down quite early for a town of its size, but thankfully we can take the four minute walk to the bus station and board 2100 Arriva Beds & Bucks Sapphire service 280 to Haddenham & Thame Parkway Station, arriving there at 2123 on Friday evening.
 

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Avoiding the Marylebone service at 2225 and heading back to London, we instead next board the 2234 Chiltern Railways service 1R69 to Solihull, arriving there at 2349 on Friday evening.
 

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After such a hectic day of Friday travelling and delighted to be in Solihull, we take advantage of the overnight travel relaxation rule and depart from the railway station to stand D at the interchange, where we next board the 0510 National Express West Midlands service 76 to Weoley Castle (the bus stop adjacent to the church of Our Lady and St Rose of Lima on Gregory Avenue) that arrives there at 0615 on Saturday morning.
 

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We walk around the corner to the bus stop on Weoley Castle Road opposite Gregory Avenue itself and next board the 0645 National Express West Midlands Platinum service X21 to Edgbaston (Church Street), arriving there at 0705 on Saturday morning.
 

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Walking around the corner to Edgbaston (Old Church) we board the 0738 National Express West Midlands route 1 towards Acocks Green, Alighting at Sparkhill (The College Arms) at 0754 Saturday morning.
 

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We next board the 0800 National Express West Midlands Platinum Electric service 6 to Shirley (Longmore Road), arriving there at 0811 on Saturday morning.
 

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We walk the 3 minutes to the Saracen's Head stop, and there board the 0815 National Express West Midlands service 4A to Acocks Green village, stop AG arriving at 0832 on Saturday.
 

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We take 8 minutes to walk the 0.4 mile to Five Ways station. There we board 2O15, West Midlands Trains's 0937 service to Bromsgrove, arriving at 1007 on Saturday.
 

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We saunter to Hereford Railway Station stand 2 and there await Stagecoach South Wales TrawsCymru T14 at 1150. We alight at Hay-on-Wye (opposite Hay Castle) at 1254 on Saturday.

Pipped
 

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We walk the 8 mins (0.4 mile) to the Fishermans Arms stop and there await the 1509 First South & West Wales service X11 which we take to Carmarthen Bus Station at 1535
 

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We next board the 1545 First South & West Wales Cymru Clipper service X11 to Swansea (Bus Station), arriving there at 1736 on Saturday afternoon.
 

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