Route Planners that exclude Train options (for Friday 5th April)

[BAFRA77]

Hi all, quick question - are there any online route planners that can be set to not include rail routes - I was supposed to be going from Worcester to Stone in Staffordshire on Friday 5th April - and would have gotten WMR/AWC/XC rail services.

Now those are all out of action due to the strikes - I need to find alternative methods

 

[Ashfordian6]

Google Maps

Once public transport routes are selected, go to options and you can remove Rail as a journey option

 

[Roger1973]

Traveline can - if you click on 'more options', one of the options is 'choose travel mode' - the default is that everything is ticked, but you can un-tick any.

I think the West Midlands journey planner includes surrounding counties.

Traveline can be more up to date than Google, which gets its data second hand.

 

[londonbridge]

Hi all, quick question - are there any online route planners that can be set to not include rail routes - I was supposed to be going from Worcester to Stone in Staffordshire on Friday 5th May - and would have gotten WMR/AWC/XC rail services.

Now those are all out of action due to the strikes - I need to find alternative methods

Think you mean April……5th May is a Sunday.

 

[peterblue]

Hi all, quick question - are there any online route planners that can be set to not include rail routes - I was supposed to be going from Worcester to Stone in Staffordshire on Friday 5th May - and would have gotten WMR/AWC/XC rail services.

Now those are all out of action due to the strikes - I need to find alternative methods

It will take you a while by bus.

I'd recommend catching the 144 to Bromsgrove, the 144A to Longbridge, then Longbridge to Birmingham 61/63.

There are some railway services departing Birmingham New Street which call at Stafford - from there you can catch the 101 to Stone. This'll be a lot faster than catching buses to Wolverhampton and Stafford, or Lichfield and Stafford from Birmingham.

 

[yorkie]

Hi all, quick question - are there any online route planners that can be set to not include rail routes - I was supposed to be going from Worcester to Stone in Staffordshire on Friday 5th April - and would have gotten WMR/AWC/XC rail services.

Now those are all out of action due to the strikes - I need to find alternative methods

If there are trains running, but not of certain operators, and you are just journey planning for train times, then www.fastjp.com allows you to exclude (or only include) specific operators.

If there are no trains running, then as others have said you can use Google Maps however I would double-check the times with the relevant operator, as Google Maps isn't always 100% accurate.

 

[WM Bus]

It will take you a while by bus.

I'd recommend catching the 144 to Bromsgrove, the 144A to Longbridge, then Longbridge to Birmingham 61/63.

There are some railway services departing Birmingham New Street which call at Stafford - from there you can catch the 101 to Stone. This'll be a lot faster than catching buses to Wolverhampton and Stafford, or Lichfield and Stafford from Birmingham.

The 144A has been the 20 (QE Hospital to Bromsgrove via Selly Oak, Northfield, Longbridge, Rubery, Catshill) since April 2023.

Also from what I can see it looks like only Chiltern will be running rail services into Birmingham on Friday so nothing to/from the North.
Birmingham New Street will be locked up on Friday with TFW services terminating at Wolverhampton and it is also worth noting that the midlands metro between Birmingham and Wednesbury is down due to engineering works this week with ticket acceptance in place on local bus services.

 

[BAFRA77]

Managed to find a route that would be the best one to get - Worcester-Bromsgrove-Birmingham-Cannock-Stafford-Stone - which should take just around 5 hours.

Thanks for the suggestions and help all

 

[peterblue]

The 144A has been the 20 (QE Hospital to Bromsgrove via Selly Oak, Northfield, Longbridge, Rubery, Catshill) since April 2023.

Also from what I can see it looks like only Chiltern will be running rail services into Birmingham on Friday so nothing to/from the North.
Birmingham New Street will be locked up on Friday with TFW services terminating at Wolverhampton and it is also worth noting that the midlands metro between Birmingham and Wednesbury is down due to engineering works this week with ticket acceptance in place on local bus services.

FastJP and RTT suggested one or two Avanti services earlier, though I guess those have been curtailed now. That's a shame.

Apologies for the numbering mixup. I shouldn't rely on my own faulty memory