The Transport Game (UK)

[A Challenge]

We then get the 1833 Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire service 1 via the Queensway Tunnel to Liverpool (Hood Street), arriving at 1937 Wednesday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We walk.around the corner to Queen Square and board the 2011 Arriva North West service 18 to Croxteth Park (Oak Lane North/Fir Tree Drive South), arriving there at 2045 on Wednesday.

 

[A Challenge]

We walk the 10 minutes (0.4 miles) to Mace Road and get the 2059 Arriva North West service 898 to Knowsley (Knowsley Lane), arriving at 2123 Wednesday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We walk the 10 minutes (0.4 miles) to Mace Road and get the 2059 Arriva North West service 898 to Knowsley (Knowsley Road), arriving at 2123 Wednesday evening.

Being an old fogey who appears to be the only one on this thread not to have or be able to use these modern hand-held gadgets with map information, but instead who relies upon hard-copy town atlases of which my archives have vast numbers of collected over the years, In Knowsley, I cannot trace Knowsley Road, but have found Knowsley Lane. There again, old-fogey syndrome may well mean that my eyesight has deceived me...

 

[ValleyLines142]

We walk around the corner to the School Lane stop and board the 2217 Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire service 217A to Northwood (Old Rough Lane/Briery Hey Avenue), arriving there at 2231 on Wednesday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 2242 Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire service 217 to Gateacre (the bue stop adjacent to The Nook on Halewood Road) that arrives there at 2331 on Wednesday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 2342 Arriva North West service 188 to Halewood (Shopping Centre), arriving there at 0005 on Thursday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A timely night-time rule relaxion break sees us next board the 0525 Arriva Merseyside service 78 to Royal Liverpool University Hospital that arrives there at 0600 on Thursday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0621 Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire service 21 to Northwood (Simonswood Lane), arriving there at 0716 on Thursday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I see it did not take long to deposit us in Northwood again....

The escape committee decide to take a short journey to a bus station and we next board the 0752 Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire service 217 to Kirkby bus station that arrives there at 0756 on Thursday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

I had forgotten we were in Northwood not too long ago. Ah well, not the first and certainly won't be the last time we end up going the same place in relatively quick succession.

We next board the 0811 Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire service 319 to Skelmersdale (Concourse), arriving therr at 0838 on Thursday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 0848 Arriva Merseyside service 385 to Newtown (the bus stop near Scot Lane on Ormskirk Road) that arrives there at 0921 on Thursday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0948 Arriva North West service 375 to Southport (Wellington Street), arriving there at 1130 on Thursday.

 

[A Challenge]

We then get the 1148 Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire service X2 to Preston Bus Station, arriving at 1241 Thursday afternoon.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1250 Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire service 68 to St Annes (Clifton Drive North/St Leonards Road West), arriving there at 1355 on Thursday.

 

[A Challenge]

We then get the 1400 Blackpool Transport service 11 to Blackpool (Bagot Street), arriving at 1418 Thursday afternoon.

 

[RDP]

We take the three minute (0.1 mile) walk to Blackpool South station for the 14.30 Northern service 2S59 to Preston arriving at 15.08 on Thursday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Leaving the station, we take the nine minute/0.4 mile walk to Corporation Street and board the 1535 Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire service 61 to Mereside (Preston New Road/Metropolitan Business Park), arriving there at 1640 on Thursday.

 

[A Challenge]

We then walk the 7 minutes (0.3 miles) to Kipling Road get the 1717 Blackpool Transport service 3a to Thornton-Cleveleys (Westmorland Avenue), arriving at 1817 Thursday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Very confusing as there are two Westmorland Avenues!

We take the five minute walk to the tram stop and board the 1833 Blackpool Tram service to Harrow Place, arriving there at 1923 on Thursday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1931 Blackpool Tramway servicer to Fleetwood (Victoria Street) that arrives there at 2038 on Thursday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We take the two minute walk to Albert Square and board the 2047 Blackpool Transport service 14 to Carleton (Castle Gardens), arriving there at 2113 on Thursday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 2134 Blackpool Transport service 14 to Thornton (Four Lane Ends) that arrives there at 2140 on Thursday,

 

[A Challenge]

We next get the 2208 Blackpool Transport service 14 to Blackpool (North Station), arriving at 2234 Thursday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We take the six minute walk to Market Street and board the 2259 Blackpool Transport service 11a to Lytham (East Beach Street/St John's Church), arriving there at 2339 on Thursday.

 

[A Challenge]

We then walk the 10 minutes (0.4 miles) to The Square and get the 2358 Blackpool Transport service 11 to St Anne's (Our Lady Church), arriving at 0013 Friday.

 

[RDP]

Time for an overnight break. We then take the five minute (0.2mile) walk to the railway station for the 05.38 Northern service 2S50 to Preston arriving at 06.08 on Friday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0621 Northern service 1Y52 to Heald Green, arriving there at 0728 on Friday.

 

[RDP]

We next take the 07.52 Northern service 2A93 to Crewe arriving at 08.40 on Friday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0910 East Midlands Railway service 1N07 to Carlton, arriving there at 1104 on Friday.