The Transport Game (UK)

[ValleyLines142]

For some reason when I used to contribute to this thread, I dreaded ending up in the Oxford area for some reason, but I suppose that we all have our own personal dislikes.

Glad to see the thread is still thriving.

I am forever battled every time I see this comment....

Only real options here at this time of night are to kip down and take advantage of the overnight rule, or to head back on the Triangle. Therefore, to line oursleves up for a good start to Saturday, we board the 2340 Stagecoach South East Triangle from Queens Roundabout south, northbound, and alight at Herne Bay Railway Station at 2348 on Friday.

We next board the 0007 Southeastern service 1S78 to Westgate-on-Sea, arriving there at 0020 on Saturday morning.

 

[A Challenge]

In the morning we walk to the Library and get the 05:54 Stagecoach South East service 8X Breeze to Sarre (Crown Inn), arriving at 06:07 Saturday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0706 Stagecoach South East Breeze service 8A to Margate (Cecil Square), arriving there at 0737 on Saturday morning.

 

[-Colly405-]

We walk the 5 minutes / 0.2 miles to Marine Terrace (stop B) where we await the 0815 National Express service 022.
We alight at Lewisham, Clock Tower (stop R) at 1040 on Saturday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1052 Stagecoach London service 136 to Elephant & Castle (Newington Causeway), arriving there at 1137 on Saturday morning.

 

[-Colly405-]

We walk the 2 minutes to Elephant & Castle tube station where we board the 1144 LUL Bakerloo line service, alighting at Willesden Junction at 1217 on Saturday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1248 London Overground service 2Y77 to Clapham Junction, arriving there at 1308 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[purple-Azumas]

We then board the 1322 Southern service 1H30 to East Croydon - arrival 1332 on Saturday.

 

[-Colly405-]

Let's stay on the station to board 1P35, Southern's 1359 service from which we alight at Tadworth at 1431 on Saturday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

From the bus stop outside the station, we next board the 1446 Metrobus service 420 to Sutton (Bus Garage), arriving there at 1520 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[-Colly405-]

We leave from stop H at 1528 on GoAhead London (London General) for TfL service 80. We alight at Morden station stop B at 1545 on Saturday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We take the eleven minute/0.5 mile walk to South Merton Station and board the 1601 Thameslink service 9O50 to Loughborough Junction, arriving there at 1630 on Saturday afternoon.

* attempting to try and stick with heavy rail so that we're not stuck on the TfL maze and can escape the capital if need be!

 

[-Colly405-]

Sticking with Thameslink, we board 9V52, their 1645 service. As we've only been there once this year, we take it to St Albans City (which RTT seems to call just St Albans) where we arrive at 1737 on Saturday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1743 Thameslink service 9R45 to Earlswood, arriving there at 1857 on Saturday evening.

 

[-Colly405-]

We walk the 5 min (0.2 mile) Church Rd stop on the A23, where we board Metrobus fastway service 100 at 1903.
We alight at Gatwick Airport North Terminal Bus Station, stop 9A at 1930 on Saturday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1935 National Express service 025 to South Lancing (New Sussex Hotel), arriving there at 2055 on Saturday evening.

 

[-Colly405-]

We leave at 2130 on Stagecoach South service 700. We alight at Littlehampton (Anchor Springs) at 2225 on Saturday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We take the six minute walk to the railway station and board the 2317 Southern service 2P74 to Barnham, arriving there at 2327 on Saturday evening.

 

[atomicdanny]

Where we wait until 23:42, and depart on the 1H62 2115 London Victoria to Chichester service, to Chichester arriving at 2349 on Saturday evening on P2.

 

[-Colly405-]

We take advantage of the overnight ruling and stroll to the stop at Westgate Leisure Centre (8 mins / 0.4 miles). There we take the once-daily Stagecoach South service 25 at 0621. We alight at Pagham, Sefter Bottom (Barfoots of Botley) at 0640 on Sunday morning.

Barfoots appears to be a rather large farm with its own "works" services ...

 

[ValleyLines142]

What an interesting find!

So, it looks as if nothing departs from there until 18:15, but I believe we can walk the main road outside which is served by the 600, so we wait for a few hours until the first one of the day, the 0929 Stagecoach South service 600 to Bognor Regis (Town Hall), arriving there at 0956 on Sunday morning.

 

[-Colly405-]

I thought so too!

We seem to have run out of local options that don't either take us back where we've recently been (including Gatwick!) or are trains that land us where there are no buses. So...

We walk the 7 minutes / 0.4 miles to the railway station where we board 1C25, Southern's 1031 service from which we alight at Clapham Junction at 1314 on Sunday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1342 South Western Railway service 1W39 to Parkstone, arriving there at 1547 on Sunday afternoon.

 

[atomicdanny]

Where we wait for the 1W60 1548 Weymouth to London Waterloo service, which arrives at 16:36, and departs at 16:37, where we then get off at Basingstoke P3 at 17:58 on Sunday Evening

 

[htafc]

We make our way to platform 5 in time for the 2J54 1807 Basingstoke to Reading (GWR), which we leave at Reading's platform 2 at 1833 on Sunday evening - where the train terminates.

 

[-Colly405-]

We leave on 1B79, GWR's 1909 service towards Swansea, from which we alight at Neath at 2115 on Sunday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

No bugger ever deserves to be left in Neath at any time of the day, let alone on a Sunday night, so we await the 2222 Transport for Wales service 2B89 to Hereford, arriving there at 0031 on Monday morning.

 

[bussikuski179]

Not much is leaving from Hereford at half past midnight on a Monday, so we spend the night there before boarding the 0523 Great Western Railway service 1P02 to Slough, arriving at 0808 on Monday morning.

 

[Agent_Squash]

Deciding that Slough isn’t the place that we want to spend our Monday morning, we board the 0815 Elizabeth line service to Twyford, arriving at 0833 on Monday morning.

 

[MaidaVale]

Heading just out the door to the bus stop, we board the 0839 Thames Valley Buses service 129 to Wokingham, Broad Street arriving at 0903 on Monday morning