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RDP

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We enter the railway station and take the 21.18 Northern service 2J29 to Rochdale arriving at 22.01 on Friday.
 
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There's an earlier service from Blackpool at 0522 arriving at Blackrod at 0610 so we may as well use that.

Leaving Blackrod station to the bus stop outside, we next board the 0632 Go North West Bee Network service 575 to Wigan (Bus Station), arriving there at 0701 on Saturday.
 

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We then get the 0716 Arriva North West service 320 to St Helens Central Station (Stop A), arriving at 0802 Saturday morning.
 

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We enter the station and take the 08.28 TPE service 1S41 to Glasgow Central arriving at 11.30 on Saturday.
 

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We exit the station to the Central Station stop on Union Street and get the 1144 First Glasgow service 267 to Hamilton (Bus Station), arriving at 1255 Saturday afternoon.
 

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We enter Hamilton Central* opposite and board the 1313 ScotRail service 2L05 to Bridgeton, arriving there at 1337 on Saturday.

* Stayed in the Premier Inn at Hamilton in November on my 5 day visit to Scotland!
 

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We then exit the station get the 1344 First Glasgow service 18 to East Kilbride (Brunel Way), arriving at 1425 Saturday afternoon.
 

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We next board the 1439 First Glasgow service 6 to Hillhead (Great Western Road/Hamilton Park Avenue), arriving there at 1555 on Saturday.
 

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We take the four minute (0.2 mile) walk to Kelvinbridge Subway station for the 16.05 Inner Circle service alighting at Cessnock at 16.30 on Saturday.
 

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We next board the 1637 First Glasgow service 90 to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, arriving there at 1749 on Saturday.
Arrival time is 17.54

We next take the 18.01 First Glasgow service 38 alighting at Giffnock Railway Station at 18.45 on Saturday.
 

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We next take the 20.41 Stagecoach West Scotland service X19 alighting at Govan Interchange at 21.19 on Saturday.
 

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We go round the corner into Carmunnock road for the 22.45 JMB Travel service 46 to Shettleston, Chester Street arriving at 23.28 on Saturday.
 
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Having thoroughly enjoyed our travels across Glasgow, we move onto pastures new. We take the eleven minute/0.5 mile walk to Shettleston station and board the 0003 ScotRail service 2H20 to Bathgate, arriving there at 0041 on Sunday.
 

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Time for an overnight break. We then take the 08.06 ScotRail service 2H03 alighting at Coatbridge Sunnyside at 08.32 on Sunday.
 

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We leave the station and take the 10.52 First Glasgow service 1B alighting at Dumbarton, Asda at 11.25 on Sunday.

Too Late

We next take the 12.43 ScotRail service 2P45 to Dunblane arriving at 13.34 on Sunday.
 
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We exit the station and walk to Dunblane Police Station and get the 13:54 Ember service E3 to Dundee Railway Station, arriving at 15:04 Sunday afternoon.
 

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Sadly, we have just missed the southbound LNER to Kings Cross, so we remain in Scotland for the time being. We instead board the 1515 ScotRail service 2L58 to Edinburgh Gateway, arriving there at 1628 on Sunday.
 

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We then get the 22:59 Scotrail service 1H39 to Inverness Airport, arriving at 23:30 Sunday evening.
 

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Time for an overnight break. We return in the morning for the 0504 ScotRail service 1B70 to Haymarket, arriving there at 0933 on Monday.
 

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We then get the 0944 Scotrail service 2H17 to Helensburgh Central, arriving at 1145 on Monday morning.
 

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