The Transport Game (UK)

[A Challenge]

We then get the 1440 Arriva Kent and Surrey service 334 to Maidstone (Hilton Hotel), arriving 1547 Thursday afternoon.

All contactless transactions for AKS register as being made in Maidstone, even those not operating in Kent

 

[Esker-pades]

Which are all school routes with very infrequent services. And after dealing with the headache of going somewhere other than Sheerness...

Hence why I didn't use them....

We then get the 1440 Arriva Kent and Surrey service 334 to Maidstone (Hilton Hotel), arriving 1547 Thursday afternoon.

All contactless transactions for AKS register as being made in Maidstone, even those not operating in Kent

It's a 2 minute to Emsworth Grove to board the 16:13 Arriva Kent & Surrey route 9 service to Bearsted Railway Station, arriving there at 16:28 on a Thursday.

 

[A Challenge]

We then get the 17:04 Southeastern service 2N48 to Harrietsham, arriving at 17:11 Thursday afternoon.

 

[Esker-pades]

We continue south east on the 17:35 SouthEastern service to Ashford International, arriving there at 17:56 on a Thursday.

 

[A Challenge]

We then exit the station and get the 1825 Stagecoach South East service 11A to New Romney (The Ship), arriving at 1912 Thursday evening.

I doubt they will be running on a Thursday evening at this time of year anyway, but leaving us within 0.5 miles has made me wonder whether the use of heritage railways, such as the RH&DR, permitted on this game?

 

[Esker-pades]

Not at this time of day. I think we can use heritage railways if there is a timetable in operation for the appropriate day at the time of making the posting. For example, there was a service operating last Thursday, so I would say we could use that timetable.

 

[A Challenge]

Thanks, that seems sensible

 

[DerekC]

We then exit the station and get the 1825 Stagecoach South East service 11A to New Romney (The Ship), arriving at 1912 Thursday evening.

We walk 250 yards to Marsh Academy and wait for the 19:31 Stagecoach East Kent service 102 to Dover Priory Station where we arrive at 20:37 on Thursday evening

Note that the Bustimes website shows the RHDR as running a "tram" service from New Romney to Dymchurch on schooldays. Is that right? I remember reading that the RHDR had stopped running school trains some years ago.

 

[Alex365Dash]

Don't have many options at this time of night, so we walk to Marsh Academy for the 19:36 Stagecoach in East Kent service 102 to Rye Railway Station, where we arrive at 20:22 on Thursday evening.

I'm assuming it's a through bus service since it arrives and leaves Lydd at the same time, but it seems to appear on Bustimes as two seperate services.

 

[Alex365Dash]

We wait in the railway station for the 20:49 Southeastern high speed service to London St Pancras International, arriving there for 21:54 on Thursday night.

 

[Esker-pades]

We cross over to the nearby King's Cross station to board the 23:33 London NorthEastern Railway service to Doncaster, arriving there at 01:24 on a Friday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taking advantage of the overnight travel relaxation rule, we leave the railway station and take the four minute walk to Frenchgate Interchange and there board the 0500 First South Yorkshire service 87 to Moorends (Marshland Road at Grange Road) that arrives there at 0555 on Friday morning.

 

[Andy Pacer]

We take the 0604 First South Yorkshire service 87A to Thorne, Ellison Street / Elm Tree Grove arriving there at 0618 on Friday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 0636 First South Yorkshire service 87 to Edenthorpe (Thorne Road/Cedric Road) that arrives there at 0708 on Friday morning.

 

[A Challenge]

We walk to Athelstane Crescent and get the First in South Yorkshire service 481 to Old Cantley (Mcauley Upper School), arriving at 0737 Friday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We take the three minute walk to School Lane and there board the 0832 First South Yorkshire service 57 to Finningley (Wroot Road/Elm Drive) that arrives there at 0851 on Friday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0933 Isle Coaches service 291 to Doncaster (Interchange), arriving there at 1000 on Friday morning.

 

[Andy Pacer]

From the adjoining Railway Station we take the 1025 LNER service to Grantham arriving at 1106 on Friday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We then board the 1145 East Midlands Railway service 2S10 to Nottingham, arriving there at 1222 on Friday afternoon.

 

[A Challenge]

We then get the 1234 East Midlands Trains service 1L08 to Norwich, arriving at 1511 Friday afternoon.

 

[Andy Pacer]

We take the 1545 Greater Anglia service to Cromer arriving there at 1633 on Friday.

 

[A Challenge]

We take the short walk to the Bus Interchange that get the 1645 Sanders Coaches service CH2 Coasthopper to Mundesley (Tesco Express), arriving at 1708 Friday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1739 Sanders Coaches Coasthopper service CH2 to North Walsham (the bus stop adjacent to Harvey Drive on Lyngate Road) that arrives there at 1757 on Friday afternoon.

 

[DerekC]

We have no choice but to wait for the 18:27 Sanders Coaches Coasthopper service CH2 to North Walsham (Market Place) where we arrive at 18:30 on Friday evening.

 

[Esker-pades]

We take an 8 minute walk to North Walsham station to board the 19:21 Greater Anglia services to Norwich, arriving there at 19:46 on a Friday.

 

[A Challenge]

We then get the 2005 Greater Anglia service 2J90 to Lowestoft, arriving at 2050 Friday evening.

 

[Esker-pades]

We then board the 21:07 Greater Anglia service to Brampton (Suffolk), arriving there at 21:33 on a Friday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aware this is a request stop station, we give a clear signal to the driver of our intention to board the 2216 Greater Anglia service to Oulton Broad South that arrives there at 2235 on Friday evening.

 

[DerekC]

Since the only option tonight is a train back to Lowestoft where we have just been, we take a slightly extended overnight break and in the morning board the 06:16 Greater Anglia service to Saxmundham where we arrive at 06:56 on Saturday morning.

 

[Esker-pades]

We notice a crime taking place, so we take the 3 minute walk round to Street Farm Road to board the 07:30 First Norfolk & Suffolk route 64 service Martlesham, Police Headquarters, arriving there at 08:21 on a Saturday.