The Transport Game (UK)

[Andy Pacer]

We walk outside to the bus stops and await the 1500 Arriva Beds & Bucks service 3 to Kingston, District Centre arriving there at 1533 on Thursday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Twice in a week now I've been preoccupied my post in work and I've been thwarted! was just about to post a move to Liverpool.

We next board the 1553 Uno service C1 to Bedford (St Paul's Square), arriving there at 1700 on Thursday afternoon.

 

[Andy Pacer]

Good to stay sane at work though, I do the same!! Unfortunately I seem to find that i'm to preoccupied and forget what i'm meant to be doing!!!

Next up we wait for the 1731 Grant Palmer service 42 to Toddington, Station Rd arriving at 1829 on Thursday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Well there doesn't appear to be any services from here now so that's it, so in the morning we return for the 0718 Grant Palmer service 42 to Kempston Interchange Park, arriving there at 0816 on Friday morning.

 

[Andy Pacer]

We take the 0850 Stagecoach service 2 to Flitwick, Post Office arriving at 0908 on Friday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We take the four minute walk into the railway station and, heading south, board the 0929 Thameslink service 9T21 to Preston Park, arriving there at 1138 on Friday morning.

 

[Andy Pacer]

We take the 1156 Southern service to Gatwick Airport arriving at 1223 on Friday.

 

[-Colly405-]

We leave on 1C88, Southern's 1239 service. We alight at Portsmouth & Southsea at 1401 on Friday.

 

[Andy Pacer]

We take the 1427 Great Western Railway service to Trowbridge arriving at 1618 on Friday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1654 Great Western Railway service 1F23 to Southampton Central, arriving there at 1802 on Friday evening.

 

[Andy Pacer]

We take the 1810 Great Western Railway service to Bradford on Avon arriving at 1924 on Friday.

 

[-Colly405-]

We walk (2 min / 0.1 mile) to the Town Bridge bus stop, where we arrive just in time to board the 1926 First West of England service Discover D1. We alight at Bath Bus Station (Bay 10) at 1959 on Friday.

Where the walk is less than 5 minutes, can we make a less than 5 minute connection, or does the minimum connection time fo 5 minutes still apply?
If this departure breaks the rules then we depart instead at 2026, arriving at 2059.

 

[Vexed]

We just miss the 1452 which could (excluding current engineering work) could get us as far as Edinbourough.

We take the 1505 West Midland Trains service to Watford Junction, arriving at 1533 on Thursday afternoon.

Completely lost the plot... A few posts behind. I'll let someone else do this one.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Completely lost the plot...

Mood

Where the walk is less than 5 minutes, can we make a less than 5 minute connection, or does the minimum connection time fo 5 minutes still apply?
If this departure breaks the rules then we depart instead at 2026, arriving at 2059.

I think it's okay; to be fair the bus stop is literally outside the station so it would be immensely tricky to miss it.

Making use of a service that only runs once a day over this particular section (hence the class D headcode as opposed to F), we enter the railway station next to the bus station and board the 2037 Great Western Railway service 1D91 to Botley, arriving there at 2233 on Thursday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think the day is still FRIDAY.....(see previous postings)

 

[ValleyLines142]

I think the day is still FRIDAY.....(see previous postings)

We next board the 2234 Great Western Railway service to Portsmouth & Southsea that arrives there at 2259 on Friday evening..

It is Friday....however that is also the service that we have just alighted off

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Apologies for the train mentioned. I lost track of the journeys when those intermediary postings were mentioned....

We next board the 2241 South Western Railway service to Portsmouth & Southsea that arrives there at 2311 on Friday evening.

 

[-Colly405-]

Help! I think I may be in a parallel universe at the moment, as arriving at Bath at 1959 on Friday, I can't find 1D91 at or around 2037 to Botley on Thursday or Friday. Equally, I can't find a 2234 or 2241 from Botley to Portsmouth & Southsea.
Think I'm going to wait for someone else to post the next move then I'll hopefully have a clue what is happening
As you were

 

[Andy Pacer]

Help! I think I may be in a parallel universe at the moment, as arriving at Bath at 1959 on Friday, I can't find 1D91 at or around 2037 to Botley on Thursday or Friday. Equally, I can't find a 2234 or 2241 from Botley to Portsmouth & Southsea.
Think I'm going to wait for someone else to post the next move then I'll hopefully have a clue what is happening
As you were

i assume its this

Realtime Trains | 1D91 1930 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour | 03/03/2023

Real-time train running information for 1D91 1930 departure from Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour on 03/03/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

 

[-Colly405-]

Seems like I'd deselected VAR in RTT so it wasn't showing 1D91 or 1F91 for this week!!!

Letting my confusion die down, we wait awhile and board 2P86, SWR's 2324 service towards Guildford, where we alight at 0038 on Saturday morning.

 

[Vexed]

Let's hope I can get this one right. We use the specific wording in the rules that the two waiting hour limit only starts after the first available service (Stagecoach South's 0119 N1 circular, no other trains). Alternatively we use the 2300 to 0500 night time waiting rule.

We take First Berkshire & Thames Valley's RA2 service at 0310 from the bus stop outside the station to Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, arriving at 0408.

 

[-Colly405-]

All good; just need to make sure you note the gameplay day of the week.

We leave from stand 10 at 0500 on the Oxford Bus Company the airline OXF, alighting at Headington (Brookes University, stop B4) at 0608 on Saturday.

 

[Vexed]

We continue on Thames Travel's X32, departing at 0623 to Didcot Parkway Station, arriving at 0707 on Saturday morning.

 

[-Colly405-]

We leave on 1C03, GWR's 0740 service towards Bristol, alighting at Chippenham at 0808 on Saturday.

 

[Vexed]

We take Faresaver's 33 service at 0840 from the bus stop outside the station to Calne (Bank House), arriving at 0901 on Saturday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Intrigued as to how we have ended up back in Wessex/Wiltshire territory for a third time, we next board the 0914 Stagecoach West Gold service 55 to Swindon (Great Western Outlet Village), arriving there at 1005 on Saturday morning.

 

[Vexed]

We continue towards the station on Swindon's Bus Company's (great name!) 22 service, departing at 1010 and we alight at Swindon Railway Station at 1014 on Saturday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Plenty of time to enter the railway station and then board the 1028 Great Western Railway service to Cheltenham Spa that arrives there at 1129 on Saturday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We exit the railway station to the bus stop outside the station, where we board the 1141 Stagecoach West service D to Bishops Cleeve (The Swallow), arriving there at 1215 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[Vexed]

As D is the only bus stopping here on Saturday, we take a 7 min / 0.3 mile walk to Bishop’s Cleeve (Petrol Station) and take Stagecoach West's T service at 1311 to Tewkesbury (Boots), arriving at 1337 on Saturday.