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The Transport Game (UK)

Rich McLean

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We hang around for the 1710 Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire Service 68 to Market Street, Blackpool, arriving at 1715 on Wednesday Afternoon
 
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ValleyLines142

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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.
 

Andy Pacer

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We take the 3 minute 0.1 mile walk to St Annes on Sea railway station to catch the 1926 Northern service to Moss Side arriving at 1937 on Wednesday.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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Sadly no buses serve the area so we return on the 1710 Northern service 2B43 to Hazel Grove, arriving there at 1735 on Thursday afternoon.
 

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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.
 

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We next board the 2130 Arriva North West service 375 to Southport (Princes Street), arriving there at 2254 on Thursday evening.
 

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We walk the 6 minutes (0.3 miles) to Southport station and get the 2328 Merseyrail service 2G00 to Bank Hall, arriving at 23:54 Thursday evening.
 

DerekC

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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.
 

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We then get the 06:20 Arriva in the North West service 310 to Aughton Institute, arriving at 06:48 Friday morning.
 

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We then get the 08:10 Arriva in the North West service 61 to Mossley Hill Station (Stop E), arriving at 09:04 Friday morning.
 

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We next board the 0915 Arriva North West service 80A to Toxteth (Princes Street/Upper Stanhope Street), arriving there at 0933 on Friday morning.
 

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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.
 

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We continue on the 1056 Arriva North West service 62 to Bootle (Strand Shopping Centre), arriving there at 1130 on Friday morning.
 

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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,.
 

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