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The Transport Game (UK)

Andy Pacer

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We take a 2 minute walk to Clarendon Road and join the 2216 Stagecoach South service 23 to Portsmouth, The Hard Interchange arriving there at 2227 on Thursday.
 
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Here we go for a look round the delightful historic quays of Portsmouth (or whatever there is to do, I don't know :lol:) before boarding the 23:59 Wightlink service to Fishbourne, arriving at 00:44 early Friday morning.

Edit: turns out this involved a 0.5 miles walk to Wightlink Gunwarf Terminal, not that it makes any difference to anything!
 

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We call it a night then walk half a mile to Fishbourne Lane, and take the 0605 Southern Vectis 9 service arriving at Newport Old Police Station at 0616 on Friday morning.
 

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We take the seven minute walk to Ryde Hoverport, where we board the 0715 Hover Travel service to Southsea Hoverport, arriving there at 0725 on Friday morning.
 

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We walk around the corner to the Royal Parade bus stop, where we board the 1020 Stagecoach South service 19 to Aldershot (Bus Station), arriving there at 1110 on Friday morning.
 

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We make the 1 minute walk to the railway station and catch the 1130 South Western Railway service to Ascot arriving at 1203 on Friday lunchtime.
 

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Having missed the annual gathering of bizzare hats, we leave the station here 12:47 White Bus Services number 01 to Windsor Great Park, The Village, arriving at 13:19 Friday afternoon.
 

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From the bus stop outside the station we then board the 1500 London United service 267 to Isleworth (Leisure Centre & Library), arriving there at 1510 on Friday afternoon.
 

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Here we walk the 0.4 miles to Kew Gardens Station in 8 minutes, where we board the 16:24 London Overground service 2N99 to Gospel Oak, arriving at 16:54 Friday afternoon.
 

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Here we take the 0.5 mile walk to Euston (10 mins) where we board the 18:10 Virgin Trains service 1J32 to Holyhead, arriving some time later at 21:56 Friday evening.
 

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From outside the station, we then board the 2215 Arriva Cymru service 4R to Valley (Cherry Garth), arriving there at 2229 on Friday evening.
 

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Although there are other buses from Valley, we are too far out to walk to the bus stops. Instead, we have an overnight break and walk to the railway station in the morning (10 minutes). There, we board the 04:32 Transport for Wales service to Llandudno Junction, arriving there at 05:13 on a Saturday.
 

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Here we board the 05:30 Transport for Wales service to Betws-y-coed, arriving at 05:54 Saturday morning.

Pwy oedd yn gwybod bod gan y llinell hon drên mor gynnar!
 

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Here we board the 05:30 Transport for Wales service to Betws-y-coed, arriving at 05:54 Saturday morning.

Pwy oedd yn gwybod bod gan y llinell hon drên mor gynnar!
I assume then in this game, we can ignore the fact that the line has been closed since March, and we just go by what is actually in the published timetable?
 

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I'm just gonna ignore the fact that there was a landslide.... :lol:

We then board the 0740 Transport for Wales service to Blaenau Ffestiniog, arriving there at 0826 on Saturday morning.
 

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I assume then in this game, we can ignore the fact that the line has been closed since March, and we just go by what is actually in the published timetable?
I did wonder that, but TfW have still published a timetable for it so I'm going off that :lol:. Also I think the replacement buses run to similar times.

From Blaenau Ffestiniog, we board the 09:00 Llew Jones Coaches service 1S to Nasareth Capel Nazareth, arriving at 09:55 Saturday morning.
 
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Andy Pacer

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I did wonder that, but TfW have still published a timetable for it so I'm going off that :lol:. Also I think the replacement buses run to similar times.

Fair enough, I certainly wasn't trying to make an issue of it, just wondered what the precedent would be!!
 

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I did wonder that, but TfW have still published a timetable for it so I'm going off that :lol:. Also I think the replacement buses run to similar times.

From Blaenau Ffestiniog, we board the 09:00 Llew Jones Coaches service 1S to Nasareth Capel Nazareth, arriving at 09:55 Saturday morning.

According to bus times the 1S only runs on a Sunday.
 

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According to bus times the 1S only runs on a Sunday.
A bit mysterious as the timetable on their website gives no days of operation! https://llewjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1s-Caernarfon-Porthmadog-Blaenau-Ffestiniog.pdf
Google would appear to agree that it only runs Sundays, the timetable is bizarre that it doesn't say so though!

I reckon it's easier to just try again on another route!
We then board the 0740 Transport for Wales service to Blaenau Ffestiniog, arriving there at 0826 on Saturday morning.
Here we board the 09:00 Arriva Wales service 3B to Pentrefelin, Yr Hen Efail, arriving at 09:46 Saturday morning.
 

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