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ValleyLines142

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Worcester's bus services die down surprisingly quite early, so we better head somewhere where we know onward connections are available as we take the two minute walk to the Bull Ring and board the 1847 First Worcestershire service 44 to Great Malvern (Railway Station), arriving there at 1920 on Thursday evening.
 

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There's not a lot of options here at this time of night, so we walk the 0.5 miles to Beeston centre tram stop and board the 22:17 Nottingham Express Transit tram service to Highbury Vale Tram Stop, arriving at 22:58 Thursday evening.

Maybe...I'm using bustimes.org as I couldn't find a printed timetable on the NET site!
 

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We take the 6 minute 0.3 mile walk to Catchems Corner bus stop and wait for the 2314 Nottingham City Transport service 68 to Snape Wood, Sellars Wood Drive arriving at 2326 on Thursday.
 

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We decide to take the night here, and in the morning we walk the 0.3 miles to Bulwell station, where we board the 05:49 East Midlands Railway service 2W01 to Whitwell, arriving at 06:37 Friday morning.
 

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I've concluded that walking to The Square doesn't achieve anything, so we will wait on the station for the return of the same unit and board the 0705 East Midlands Railway service to Newark Castle arriving there at 0839 on Friday morning.
 

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Sadly Newark Northgate is too far away to facilitate any impromptu trips to Durham, so instead we exit the station to the adjacent bus stop and settle for a ride on the 09:16 Stagecoach East Mids service 29A to Southwell, o/s The Minster, arriving at 09:46 Friday morning.
 

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We next board the 1050 Nottingham City Transport Pathfinder service 26 to Carlton (Tesco), arriving there at 1121 on Friday morning.
 

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We take the eight minute walk to the bus stop on Holyoake Road, where we board the 1221 Nottingham City Transport service 45 to Alexandra Park (Woodborough Road/Alexandra Court), arriving there at 1233 on Friday afternoon.
 

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Unfortunately the 46 and 47 aren't running at the moment and other bus stops are a little too far to walk, so we await the 1302 Nottingham City Transport service 45 to Nottingham, Victoria Centre (Stop J1) arriving at 1307 on Friday.
 

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Walking the 0.3 miles to Victoria bus station, we now board the 14:06 Stagecoach in Chesterfield service X1 to Clay Cross, adj St Bartholomews Church, arriving at 15:07 Friday afternoon.
 

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Only thing we can do here is board the 1552 Stagecoach Chesterfield Gold service X1 to Alfreton (Bus Station), arriving there at 1611 on Friday afternoon.
 

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We walk around the corner to Glasshouse Hill and board the 1750 Trent Barton Rainbow One service to Whitemoor (Western Boulevard), arriving there at 1839 on Friday evening.
 

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We take the three minute walk to Cinderhill tram stop, where we board the 1902 Nottingham Express Transit service to Compton Acres, arriving there at 1935 on Friday evening.
 

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We seem to find ourselves in somewhat of a bus desert as far as I can see, so we now board the 19:47 Nottingham Express Transit service back to Arboretum High School Tram Stop, arriving at 20:05 Friday evening.
 

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Unfortunately the Compton Acres local services don't restart until next week

We seem to find ourselves in somewhat of a bus desert as far as I can see, so we now board the 19:47 Nottingham Express Transit service back to Arboretum High School Tram Stop, arriving at 20:05 Friday evening.

We take the 2017 NET Tram to Old Market Square Tram Stop arriving at 2023 on Friday.
 

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I believe that service arrives at 2030; six minutes to get from Compton Acres to Old Market Square seems remarkably quick! :lol:

We take the three minute walk to Stop A2 on Angel Row and there board the 2105 Nottingham City Transport Green Line service 6 to West Bridgford (Central Avenue), arriving there at 2116 on Friday evening.
 

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Not too sure to be honest, Google is a bit unclear!

Unfortunately the other routes in the area either aren't running, or are finishing earlier than usual, so we will catch the 2144 Nottingham City Transport service 6 to Trent Bridge, Victoria Embankment arriving at 2148 on Friday.
 

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No probs!

We next board the 2207 Nottingham City Transport South Notts service 1 to Clifton (Clifton Green), arriving there at 2217 on Friday evening.
 

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That seems to be it for the evening, so we stay overnight and wait for the 0503 Nottingham City Transport Service 1 to Wilford, ROKO arriving at 0512 on Saturday morning .
 

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After a workout at ROKO, you decide to get a 23 service to clifton at 09:25 which gets you into Clifton at 10:20
 

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After a workout at ROKO, you decide to get a 23 service to clifton at 09:25 which gets you into Clifton at 10:20

Hello! Welcome to the game!

Just a few pointers: you need to specify the operator of the service you're using, which in this case is CT4N, you need to state exactly where we've stopped, which appears to be Gamston Morrisons and not Clifton, and also the day, which is Saturday. But: none of the CT4N services run on the weekend!!

Usually, we allow a maximum wait of two hours at any stop, unless we're having to wait in somewhere extremely rural like the Highlands of Scotland or deepest Yorkshire. Obviously in majorly built up areas like London, Birmingham, Manchester etc this isn't allowed as there are plenty of services available, and this would also be the case in Nottingham as there is an extensive bus and tram service. The service you've chosen doesn't depart for another four hours after we arrived so it would probably have been more appropriate to have continued using the 1, but as it happens none of the CT4N services run on weekends!

Remember that is is a pseudo-realistic game, and say we're at a football stadium or a gym or a shopping centre, we wouldn't have a huge wait as if we were watching a match or actually going shopping; we would simply use it as if we were changing transport there, and we just keep on moving :)

Take a look at the game rules on the first page of this thread :) but have fun, this is addictive this game!


I'll continue from ROKO, and we will in fact head to Clifton and board the 0540 Nottingham City Transport South Notts service 1B to Clifton (The Dip), arriving there at 0551 on Saturday morning.
 
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We take the 0600 Nottingham City Transport service 48X to Riverside Retail Park, Tottle Road arriving at 0614 on Saturday morning.
 

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We next board the 0619 Nottingham City Transport Navy Line service 49X to Portal Business Park, arriving there at 0623 on Saturday morning
 

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