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Welcome to 'The International Transport Game'
Gameplay
The aim of the game is to travel around the world using public transport in a pseudo-realistic fashion. To play, you must depart from the station or stop where the previous post arrived using a permitted timetabled public transport service. Having arrived at the destination, the minimum connection time for the station or stop must be allowed for. Unless you can show otherwise this is taken to be 5 minutes for changing onto/between buses, trains, trams and similar. When changing onto/between flights, ferries and similar 30 minutes should be allowed.
An Example:
We arrive at Aeroport Paris-Charles de Gaulle TGV from Lille Europe at 1353. We can then take any train or bus after 1358 and any flight from the airport after 1423. The choice is the players as to which they wish to do.
In your post you should clearly state the time your service departs, the company who's service you are using, the service number (if available) and the time and day of arrival at your chosen destination. You must also state the source of your information (for instance the journey planner or website used) and if possible provide a link.
Example post:
We then take Train 2 'Rossiya' from Moscow Yaroslavski station departing at 2345 on Saturday and arriving in Beijing main station at 0546 one week later on Saturday morning. Source here
Additional Notes
Rules
Game Play Etiquette
We do not have any one appointed person(s) who have a role to police the rules of the game, instead we leave this down to community judgement.
This game is new and fairly untested so we are relying on the community to be sensible in both the moves made and also the interpretation of the rules. Once we're outside of Western Europe it's going to be a lot harder to find usable timetables for transport. So giving people the benefit of the doubt and bending the rules is probably going to be important. At least until the game finds its feet.
When posting moves, please do endeavour that they are realistic, whilst complying with the set rules at the same time. For example, it wouldn't be reasonable nor realistic, for someone to post a move which involves waiting at Berlin Hauptbahnhof for two hours; there are a huge number of trains and other transport options there.
You do not need to worry about time taken to pass through customs, boarder control or airport security. For the purposes of this game there is free travel between every country and no need for security so these will not need to be accounted for in your moves.
It comes down to the community to point out any rule breaches, however this shouldn't hold up game play and it may not be necessary to return to the previous post. In any case where a problem can not be resolved mutually, the Forum Staff including the Quizmaster Team have the powers to make an adjudication, their decision being final.
Enjoy playing.
To start us off:
After many years of travelling hither and yon around Great Britain we find ourselves on a rainy Monday morning at Heathrow looking at the huge list of departures to many exotic locations around the world. We've dreamt for so long of departing for a new adventure but whenever we tried Inspectors Class172, ainsworth74, OxtedL and transportphoto have stood in our path preventing our exit.
Not seeing them nearby we decide to chance it!
Rushing to the British Airways desk we quickly buy a ticket and dash for security and once through that we continue to hurry our way to our departure gate. We jump on board our flight and as it powers down the runway we see in the distance a 'RailUK Quiz Inspector' car chasing after us but, thankfully, they are too late and our A320 soars into the sky and we are free at last from the Inspectors.
We then look down at our ticket and see that we're travelling on the 0830 British Airways flight BA0548 to Rome Fiumicino airport where we are due to arrive at 1200 on Monday afternoon. (Source: BA Flight Planner)
Gameplay
The aim of the game is to travel around the world using public transport in a pseudo-realistic fashion. To play, you must depart from the station or stop where the previous post arrived using a permitted timetabled public transport service. Having arrived at the destination, the minimum connection time for the station or stop must be allowed for. Unless you can show otherwise this is taken to be 5 minutes for changing onto/between buses, trains, trams and similar. When changing onto/between flights, ferries and similar 30 minutes should be allowed.
An Example:
We arrive at Aeroport Paris-Charles de Gaulle TGV from Lille Europe at 1353. We can then take any train or bus after 1358 and any flight from the airport after 1423. The choice is the players as to which they wish to do.
In your post you should clearly state the time your service departs, the company who's service you are using, the service number (if available) and the time and day of arrival at your chosen destination. You must also state the source of your information (for instance the journey planner or website used) and if possible provide a link.
Example post:
We then take Train 2 'Rossiya' from Moscow Yaroslavski station departing at 2345 on Saturday and arriving in Beijing main station at 0546 one week later on Saturday morning. Source here
Additional Notes
- If arriving by bus or coach then you should name the area in addition to the stop name.
- If a move is discovered to be incorrect then the original post should be struck through and the correction made as a new post.
- Should the previous move leave you at a the end of a route for which there are no services timetabled to depart from then you may walk to the nearest stop where services are available.
- So the game remains realistic, you should use the current timetable for the relevant day not including timetable variations for engineering works.
Rules
- You may not re-board the service just used in the previous post.
- You should use the first available service to reach your destination after allowing for the minimum interchange time.
- You shouldn't wait for more than three hours after the first available service (to any destination) has left, after allowing for the minimum interchange time.
- You may walk up to about half a mile (or one kilometre) when changing modes to a stop in the vicinity, if you wish.
- The use of cars and taxis is not allowed, nor is the use of general aviation, chartered watercraft or suchlike.
- Departure time should be given in the local time from where you've departed and the arrival time should be in the local time for where you've arrived (i.e. if you leave Heathrow for Moscow your departure time would be whatever the time in London was when you left and the arrival time would be whatever the time in Moscow was when you arrived).
- The playing area includes the whole world. Great Britain is prohibited except for interchange purposes at airports, ferry terminals or similar (i.e. you could fly into Heathrow from Paris and fly back out again to Berlin but couldn't travel to another airport within GB or use any other domestic transport links).
Game Play Etiquette
We do not have any one appointed person(s) who have a role to police the rules of the game, instead we leave this down to community judgement.
This game is new and fairly untested so we are relying on the community to be sensible in both the moves made and also the interpretation of the rules. Once we're outside of Western Europe it's going to be a lot harder to find usable timetables for transport. So giving people the benefit of the doubt and bending the rules is probably going to be important. At least until the game finds its feet.
When posting moves, please do endeavour that they are realistic, whilst complying with the set rules at the same time. For example, it wouldn't be reasonable nor realistic, for someone to post a move which involves waiting at Berlin Hauptbahnhof for two hours; there are a huge number of trains and other transport options there.
You do not need to worry about time taken to pass through customs, boarder control or airport security. For the purposes of this game there is free travel between every country and no need for security so these will not need to be accounted for in your moves.
It comes down to the community to point out any rule breaches, however this shouldn't hold up game play and it may not be necessary to return to the previous post. In any case where a problem can not be resolved mutually, the Forum Staff including the Quizmaster Team have the powers to make an adjudication, their decision being final.
Enjoy playing.
To start us off:
After many years of travelling hither and yon around Great Britain we find ourselves on a rainy Monday morning at Heathrow looking at the huge list of departures to many exotic locations around the world. We've dreamt for so long of departing for a new adventure but whenever we tried Inspectors Class172, ainsworth74, OxtedL and transportphoto have stood in our path preventing our exit.
Not seeing them nearby we decide to chance it!
Rushing to the British Airways desk we quickly buy a ticket and dash for security and once through that we continue to hurry our way to our departure gate. We jump on board our flight and as it powers down the runway we see in the distance a 'RailUK Quiz Inspector' car chasing after us but, thankfully, they are too late and our A320 soars into the sky and we are free at last from the Inspectors.
We then look down at our ticket and see that we're travelling on the 0830 British Airways flight BA0548 to Rome Fiumicino airport where we are due to arrive at 1200 on Monday afternoon. (Source: BA Flight Planner)
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