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Leaving the station, we next board the 0706 Stagecoach Midlands Gold service X4 to Peterborough (Queensgate Bus Station), arriving there at 0821 on Friday.
We leave the station and take the four minute (0.2 mile) walk to Market Place for the 14.55 Central Connect service 90 alighting at Newark Bus Station at 15.26 on Friday.
We take the eleven minute/0.5 mile walk to Newark Castle station and board the 1559 East Midlands Railway service 2L70 to Carlton, arriving there at 1619 on Friday.
Mindful of the 10 minute minimum connection time here we depart on 1V62, Transport for Wales' 1910 service towards Cardiff, from which we alight at Cwmbran at 2127 on Friday.
We leave the station and take the six minute (0.3 mile) walk to the bus station for the 22.14 Stagecoach South Wales service X24 to Blaenavon, High Street arriving at 22.52 on Friday.
No other choice here other than to head back the way we came on the 2258 Stagecoach South Wales service X24 to Pontypool (Town Hall), arriving there at 2319 on Friday.
That's it for the rest of the night, so we take an overnight break. We return in the morning for the 0828 Great Western Railway service 1A78 to Reading, arriving there at 1135 on Sunday.
We leave the station and walk to the bus stop opposite and next board the 1618 morebus service 1B to Bournemouth (Royal Bath Hotel on Bath Road) that arrives there at 1651 on Sunday.
We next take the four minute walk to the bus stop at the top of Hinton Road and next board the 1708 morebus service m1 to Strouden (Castle Lane West/Mount Pleasant Drive), arriving there at 1735 on Sunday.
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