The Transport Game (UK)

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1423 High Peak Skyline service 199 to Stepping Hill (The Crown), arriving there at 1535 on Monday afternoon.

 

[RDP]

We next take the 16.35 Belle Vue Coaches service 391 alighting at Macclesfield Railway Station at 17.40 on Monday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We take the four minute walk to the bus station and are just in time for the 1745 D&G Bus service 130 to Handforth (Paddock North), arriving there at 1855 on Monday evening.

 

[RDP]

We take the short walk to Handforth railway station and take the 19.28 Northern service to Crewe arriving at 19.59 on Monday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 2019 London Northwestern Railway service 1G67 to Smethwick Galton Bridge, arriving there at 2109 on Monday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 2120 West Midland Trains service to Wolverhampton that arrives there at 2137 on Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We take the three minute walk to the bus station, where we board the 2145 National Express West Midlands  Platinum service 8 to Amblecote (Queens Crescent), arriving there at 2237 on Monday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not much in the way of alternative services to use and not wishing to retrace our journey with night drawing on, so we next board the 2338 National Express West Midlands Platinum service 8 to Stourbridge Interchange that arrives there at 2343 on Monday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

The 6 stops at nearby Amblecote Church and runs until nearly midnight.

We next board the 0010 National Express West Midlands  Platinum service 9 to Edgbaston (Ivy Bush), arriving there at 0049 on Tuesday morning.

 

[-Colly405-]

Taking advantage of the overnight ruling we depart at 0609 on NXWM service 13, alighting at Oldbury Interchange at 0634 on Tuesday.

 

[RDP]

We next take the 06.48 Diamond Bus service 4H alighting at Halesowen Bus Station at 07.10 on Tuesday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0732 Diamond Bus service 002 to Weoley Castle (Shenley Fields Drive), arriving there at 0754 on Tuesday morning.

 

[RDP]

We next take the 08.27 Kevs Cars & Coaches service 39 to Longbridge Station arriving at 08.58 on Tuesday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0907 National Express West Midlands service 49 to Shirley (Saracens Head), arriving there at 1002 on Tuesday morning.

 

[RDP]

We next take the 10.11 National Express West Midlands service 76 to Solihull Station Interchange arriving at 10.33 on Tuesday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Thinking that a journey on the rails is long overdue, we enter the station and board the 1039 West Midlands Trains service 2V40 to Lye, arriving there at 1140 on Tuesday morning.

 

[RDP]

Thinking that a journey on the rails is long overdue, we enter the station and board the 1039 West Midlands Trains service 2V40 to Lye, arriving there at 1140 on Tuesday morning.

Shows as departing at 10.41 and arriving at Lye at 11.27

 

[ValleyLines142]

Shows as departing at 10.41 and arriving at Lye at 11.27

Yeah, that. Apologies!

 

[RDP]

We leave the station and from the Badger Street stop we take the 11.41 National Express West Midlands service 7 alighting at Stourbridge Interchange at 12.08 on Tuesday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1220 Diamond Bus service 17 to Gornal Wood (Five Ways Island), arriving there at 1302 on Tuesday afternoon.

 

[RDP]

We next take the 13.37 Diamond Bus service 27 to Wolverhampton Bus Station arriving at 14.18 on Tuesday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1440 Banga Buses service 53 to Wednesfield (the bus stop opposite to the Police Station on Alfred Squire Road) that arrives there at 1515 on Tuesday afternoon.

 

[RDP]

We go round the corner to Church Street and take the 15.50 National Express West Midlands service 9 to Walsall Bus Station arriving at 16.51 on Tuesday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1700 National Express West Midlands service 6 to Sutton Coldfield (Gracechurch Centre on Lower Parade) that arrives there at 1740 on Tuesday afternoon.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1811 National Express West Midlands Platinum service X3 to Hill Hook (Hill Hook Road/Badgers Bank Road), arriving there at 1825 on Tuesday evening.

 

[RDP]

Little option at this time of day but to back track so we take the 18.40 National Express West Midlands service X3 to Birmingham alighting at Erdington, Six Ways Island at 19.11 on Tuesday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1931 National Express West Midlands Platinum service X5 to Roughley (Grange Lane/Little Sutton Road), arriving there at 1954 on Tuesday evening.

 

[RDP]

We again have no option bu to back track so we take the 20.43 National Express West Midlands service X5 to Birmingham alighting at Sutton Coldfield, Gracechurch Centre at 20.52 on Tuesday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Completing our travelogue with the last of the three express Sutton services, this connects perfectly as we next board the 2057 National Express West Midlands Platinum service X4 to Falcon Lodge (Repington Way), arriving there at 2108 on Tuesday evening.

 

[RDP]

We take the six minute walk to Churchill Road and take the 21.37 National Express West Midlands service X14 to Birmingham alighting at Aston University at 22.33 on Tuesday.