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We take advantage of the overnight relaxation and return the following morning to the mainline station and catch the 0755 LNER service to Durham arriving at 0806 on Sunday morning
We take the seven minute walk to the bus station and board the 1023 Go North East Tynedale Links service 10 to MetroCentre (Bus Station), arriving there at 1127 on Sunday morning.
From the interchange outside the station, we next board the 1501 Stagecoach North East service 40 to Chapel House (Hillhead Parkway/Ainsdale Gardens), arriving there at 1551 on Sunday afternoon.
We take the 2 minute walk to the Hillhead Parkway/Elston Close stop to board Stagecoach North East service 63 at 1607. We alight at Four Lane Ends Interchange, stop C at 1655 on Sunday.
We next board the 1701 Stagecoach North East service 62 to North Walbottle (North Walbottle Road/Northumberland Gardens), arriving there at 1746 on Sunday afternoon.
We stroll for 10 minutes (0.5 mile) to the Walbottle stop on Hawthorn Terrace, where we await Arriva Northumbria service 685 at 1808. We alight at Newcastle upon Tyne, St James's at 1826 on Sunday.
Taking advantage of a different mode of transport here, we enter St James Metro station and board the 1845 Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow Line service to West Monkseaton, arriving there at 1916 on Sunday evening.
Exiting the station, we cross over to the Earsdon Rd - Metro bus stop, where we board Arriva Northumbria service 57A at 1922. We alight at Klondyke, Front St at 1948 on Sunday.
We exit to the bus station and board the 0622 First Scotland East/McGills service 52 to Alloa (Shillinghill), arriving there at 0716 on Monday morning.
With there being no more college buses now until 3pm, we take the five minute walk to the King's Seat Public House stop on Bridge Street, where we board the 0850 First Scotland East/McGills (no idea what's going on with them merging) service 324 to Bannockburn (Primary School), arriving there at 0937 on Monday morning.
Moving away from the Lothian region, we take the six minute walk to Bathgate station and board the 2025 ScotRail service 2H47 to Shettleston, arriving there at 2102 on Monday evening.
We walk to Tollcross Burn on Killin St (10 min / 0.5 mile) where we await the 2120 First Greater Glasgow service 61. We alight at Glasgow Central station, stop HC at 2147 on Monday.
We take advantage of the overnight ruling, and then walk 3 minutes (0.2 miles) to the Killoch Place stop. There, we board Stagecoach West Scotland service 43 at 0524, taking it to Cumnock, Bus Stance (6) where we alight at 0626 on Tuesday morning.
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