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We walk around the corner to Market Street and board the 1720 Blackpool Transport service 9 to Cleveleys (Bus Station), arriving there at 1800 on Wednesday evening.
There are no buses serving the area so we return on the 1950 Northern service 2S63 to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, arriving there at 2007 on Wednesday evening.
Taking into account the eight minute minimum connection time at Preston, we next board the 2117 Avanti West Coast service 9M62 to Sandwell & Dudley, arriving there at 2254 on Wednesday evening.
There doesn't appear to be any more services for the night so we rest for a few hours before boarding the 0518 Transport for Wales service 1I00 to Birmingham International, arriving there at 0652 on Thursday morning.
Services here are very sporadic so we'll have to wait for the 1321 Transport for Wales service 1H89 to Manchester Piccadilly, arriving there at 1554 on Thursday afternoon.
We exit the station and take the 11 minute/0.5 mile walk to the Elephant & Castle on on Bolton Road, where we board the 1935 Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire Gold service 125 to Bolton (Claremont Church), arriving there at 2000 on Thursday evening.
We take an overnight break and in the morning board the 05:40 Arriva Merseyside service 55 to Netherton (Old Roan Station) where we arrive at 06:14 on Friday.
It not being a match day we see no need to hang around, so we board the 10:22 Stagecoach Merseyside service 17 to Walton (Police Station) where we arrive at 10:36 on Friday morning.
We walk the 400 yards to Bootle New Strand station and there catch the 11:45 Merseyrail service 2U23 to Hunts Cross where we arrive at 12:17 on Friday afternoon,.