The Transport Game (UK)

[A0]

Wait at Twyford until 0106 to board the GWR service to Didcot Parkway which arrives 0132 Friday morning.

Don't forget folks, the line between Didcot and Oxford is currently closed !

 

[-Colly405-]

As the rules state that "you should use the current timetable for the relevant day not including timetable variations for engineering works", should we not be proceeding as though Didcot - Oxford were open?

 

[-Colly405-]

Taking advantage of the overnight rule, we depart at 0610 on Thams Travel service 23 from Station bus stop R2. We alight at Nettlebed, Green at 0651 on Friday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

As the rules state that "you should use the current timetable for the relevant day not including timetable variations for engineering works", should we not be proceeding as though Didcot - Oxford were open?

I was under the impression that we just ignore it as if it was open, as I believed we weren't taking into account line closures/emergency timetables?
For instance, with the Carstairs remodelling, which is scheduled to go on until at least June, I fast forwarded to July.

Taking advantage of the overnight rule, we depart at 0610 on Thams Travel service 23 from Station bus stop R2. We alight at Nettlebed, Green at 0651 on Friday.

We next board the 0718 Thames Travel service 23 to Wallingford (Market Place), arriving there at 0729 on Friday morning.

(There's way too many Market Places out there!)

 

[A0]

We wait unti 0753 when we board the Thames Travel 136 to Cholsey Meadows where we arrive at 0759 on Friday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Just a tad too far from any other connecting services here, so we return on the 0851 Thames Travel service 136 to Cholsey (The Forty), arriving there at 0857 on Friday morning.

 

[NorwichRailFan]

We then walk 7 mins(0.4 miles) to Cholsey station where we board the 0909 GWR service to Didcot Parkway where we arrive at 0921 on Friday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

As the rules state that "you should use the current timetable for the relevant day not including timetable variations for engineering works", should we not be proceeding as though Didcot - Oxford were open?

Here you find an example of two different quizzes on the Quizzes and Games forum with differently-worded views on such a matter. On the quiz with a vast amount of postings (over 204,000) going back to 2011, "The next station is" quiz, there is a section called THE RED SECTION in the quiz rules of that quiz (second posting on the thread) that specifically names embargoed line sections such as that stated above and is kept updated by the forum quizmaster team.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We then walk 7 mins(0.4 miles) to Cholsey station where we board the 0909 GWR service to Didcot Parkway where we arrive at 0921 on Friday.

We next board the 0941 Great Western Railway service to Chippenham that arrives there at 1012 on Friday morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We exit the station to the bus stop outside the station and board the 1032 Stagecoach West Gold service 55 to Swindon (Great Western Designer Outlet Village), arriving there at 1145 on Friday morning.

 

[Trainguy34]

We board the 1151 route 1 to Swindon Bus Station arriving at 1201 on Friday Afternoon

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 1210 Stagecoach West service 51 to Charlton Kings (Beaufort Arms), arriving there at 1402 on Friday afternoon.

 

[-Colly405-]

We depart on Pulhams Coaches service 801 at 1508, alighting at Stow-on-the-Wold, Library at 1555 on Friday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1655 Pulhams Coaches service 801 to Andoversford (Cattle Market on Station Road) that arrives there at 1730 on Friday afternoon.

 

[A0]

Time to find a pub for a couple of pints of "Old & Filthy" and a bag of pork scratchings, because we're here until 1854 when we board Stagecoach S2 to Cheltenham arriving at 1915 Friday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We take the five minute walk to High Street, where we board the 1925 Stagecoach West service C to Springbank (Local Shops), arriving there at 1938 on Friday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next board the 1958 Stagecoach West service C (the only bus available from here) to another local area settlement of Arle (the bus stop before Howell Road on Welch Road) that arrives there at 2007 on Friday evening.

 

[A0]

Walk 7 minutes / 0.3m to Princess Elizabeth Way, St Thomas More church and at 2029 board the Stagecoach A service to Cheltenham Clarence Street arriving 2042 Friday evening.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 2052 Stagecoach West service D to Bishops Cleeve (Mill Parade), arriving there at 2116 on Friday evening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Continuing our local area travelogue, we next board the Stagecoach West service D to Hatherley (the bus stop by Morris Court on Shelburne Road) that arrives there at 2221 on Friday evening.

Thought for the day....there is never a bus to Cribbs Causeway or Lybster when you need one !!!

 

[Trainguy34]

We then Cross the road and board the 2236 route D to Cheltenham Spa Station arriving at the station for 2243 on Friday Evening

 

[ValleyLines142]

We take the six minute walk to the Shell Garage on Lansdown Road, where we board the 2304 Stagecoach West Gold service 94 to Wotton (Denmark Road), arriving there at 2323 on Friday evening.

 

[-Colly405-]

Our only options here at this time of night involve the 94, or to Gloucester on a 10. We therefore take advantage of the overnight rule and return at 0637 in the morning for Stagecoach West service 10, from which we alight at Podsmead (Crypt School) at 0700 on Saturday.

 

[ValleyLines142]

We next board the 0718 Stagecoach West service 10 to Shurdington (Chargrove Lane), arriving there at 0828 on Saturday morning.

 

[NorwichRailFan]

We then wait for the 0841 Stagecoach West 66 to Stroud Merrywalks (Stop D) Where we arrive at 0922 on Saturday morning.

 

[A0]

A 5 minute walk to Stroud station and wait until 0932, where we board the GWR service to London Paddington arriving 1059 Saturday morning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mindful of the 15 minute minimum connection time that applies at this large station, we next board the 1120 Great Western Railway service to Didcot Parkway that arrives there at 1202 on Saturday afternoon.

 

[A0]

Puzzled as to how we've ended up at Didcot again so soon, we try to clear our befuddled mind by leaving the station and boarding the 1224 Thames Travel X2 service to Oxford, which we alight at Westgate when it is 1325 Saturday afternoon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Puzzled as to how we've ended up at Didcot again so soon,,,,,,

Twenty-two postings have elapsed since Didcot Parkway last appeared in a posting.

 

[A0]

Twenty-two postings have elapsed since Didcot Parkway last appeared in a posting.

But less than 48 hours - we were there in the wee small hours of Friday morning and back Saturday lunchtime