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ValleyLines142

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We then board the 1019 Arriva Herts & Essex service 510 to Stansted Airport (Coach Station), arriving there at 1033 on Friday morning.
 
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We have a quick drink and PNB then board the 1120 First Essex Service X10 to Basildon Bus Station, arriving at 1240 on Friday afternoon.
 

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What is a PNB exactly?! Sorry if it's something obvious and/or something I should know, but I've seen it a few times on the forum and can't work it out!

We then board the 1248 First Essex service 25 to Southend-on-Sea (Travel Centre), arriving there at 1414 on Friday afternoon.
 

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A Personal Needs Break

We next board the 1422 First Essex Service 28 to Pitsea, Broadway arriving at 1518 on Friday afternoon.
 

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As in a wee?! Thank you!

Taking tbe eight minute walk to the railway station, we then board the 1528 c2c service 2D57 to Limehouse, arriving there at 1621 on Friday afternoon.
 

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From Stop LB outside we get the 16:28 Blue Triangle on behalf of Transport for London service 115 to High Street North East Ham (Stop R), arriving at 17:05 Friday afternoon.

Note we are in East Ham, I know it isn't intermediately obvious what of that is the place name in the stop name!
 

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From the opposite side of the road on Bartle Avenue, we then board the 1713 Tower Transit service 58 to Walthamstow Central Station, arriving there at 1829 on Friday afternoon.
 

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We next board the 1837 Metroline service 34 to Arnos Grove Station, arriving at 1922 on Friday evening.
 

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We then enter the underground station and take the 19:32 Picadilly Line service to Cockfosters Station arriving there at 19:41 on Friday evening.
 

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We next board the 1950 Sullivan Buses service 299 to Muswell Hill, Broadway (North Arm) arriving at 2020 on Friday evening.
 

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We then board the 2029 Metroline service 134 to Tottenham Court Road Station (New Oxford Street/Shaftesbury Avenue), arriving there at 2104 on Friday evening.

The name of this bus stop is confusing. It's on Bloomsbury Street, opposite Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church.
 

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From Stop T, we join the Metroline W7 service at 20:30 to Finsbury Park arriving there at 20:44 on Friday evening.
 
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We then board the 2029 Metroline service 134 to Tottenham Court Road Station (New Oxford Street/Shaftesbury Avenue), arriving there at 2104 on Friday evening.

The name of this bus stop is confusing. It's on Bloomsbury Street, opposite Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church.

We enter the station and join the 21:22 Northern Line service to Euston arriving there at 21:26 on Friday evening.
 

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Having just mised the Highlands Caledonian Sleeper, we next board the 2136 London United service 18 to Sudbury and Harrow Road Station, arriving at 2238 on Friday evening.
 

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Thank goodness for that!

We then take the 22:52 Metroline Service 182 to Harrow Bus Station arriving there at 23:01 on Friday evening
 

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We then board the 2306 London Sovereign service 258 to Watford Junction (Railway Station), arriving there at 2339 on Friday evening.
 

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We enter the station and rather than ending up back in London we wait for the 00:04 West Midlands Trains 2K43 service to Leighton Buzzard Railway Station arriving there at 00:34 in the early hours of Saturday morning.
 

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We keep heading north on the 0053 West Midlands Trains service to Northampton, arriving at 0126 on Saturday morning.
 

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Hopefully I can get away with us staying the night here, and we will take the first train on a Saturday morning, the 05:15 2N00 West Midlands Trains service to Tring arriving there at 05:55 on Saturday morning.
 

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Waiting a while, we now board the 06:59 West Midlands Trains service 2U23 to Crewe, riding as far as Alsager, where we arrive at 09:27 Saturday Morning.
 

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We now board the 11:12 West Midlands Trains service 2A59 to Birmingham New Street, taking it as far as Bloxwich, arriving at 11:37 Saturday Morning.
 

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We walk the 0.3 miles to High Street, Stop BH and take the 12:00 Arriva Midlands ‘Sapphire’ Service 1 to Cannock Bus Station arriving there at 12:23 on Saturday.
 

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We then board the 1246 Arriva Midlands service 70 to University of Wolverhampton (Stafford Street), arriving there at 1339 on Saturday afternoon.
 

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Walking 100m to Wolverhampton Station, we then board the 14:42 Arriva Trains Wales service to 1J19/2J19 to Pwllheli, taking it as far as Porthmandog, where we arrive at 18:56 Saturday Evening.
 

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From the bus stop outside the station we have a little bit of time to admire the beauty of this town as we board the 2026 TrawsCymru service T2 to Bangor (Railway Station), arriving there at 2127 on Saturday evening.
 

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We then enter the station to board the 21:44 Arriva Trains Wales 1W96 service to Ty Croes arriving there at 22:04 on Saturday evening.
 

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That appears to be the last train of the day, so the following morning we board the 0805 Arriva Trains Wales service 1H80 to Manchester Piccadilly, arriving there at 1050 on Sunday morning.
 

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We now board the 11:15 TransPennine Express service 1B74 to Cleethorpes, taking it all the way and so arriving at 13:49 Sunday Afternoon.
 

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