Round Trips

[karl724223]

So in 20 minutes you got from City to Walsall, then to McDonalds, then to Bradford place and onto the 4M. Then got to Merry hill in an hour. Before it only taking an hour to get back to Walsall in an hour, the closest 4M to the time you have said is 1607, the one before 1542 (which isn't timetabled to arrive at Walsall until 1711).

*Sniff Sniff* I smell bullshit. @karl724223

good job it wasn't the 333x  there would be fighting smashing up the bus  crapping on it and god knows what happening   Maybe tony can check the buses given against the times after he's had a loff sorry rest from a day out to Dundee   Ps are you related to anybody from Halesowen
@Dom

[MW]

Ps are you related to anybody from Halesowen

Lmfao

[Trident 4194]

Lmfao

Wonder who you referring to?

[BK63 YWP]

Someone who loves diamond but has an nx username  :o :o :o

[Dom]

Wonder who you referring to?

Might be my mate Will from work, he lives in Hayley green, or Could be old Betty from Manor Lane.

[Dylanbusboy45]

21st of January - Liverpool and Chester

LM 323217 Kings Norton-Birmingham New St
LM 350265 Birmingham New St-Liverpool Lime St
Took photos in Liverpool
ANW 4804 BT66MTO Volvo B5LH Liverpool Lime St-Birkenhead North (rail replacement)
ANW 6000 SM15HVW Wright Streetlite Birkenhead North-Birkenhead Central (rail replacement)
ANW 4805 BT66MTU Volvo B5LH Birkenhead Central-Moorfields (rail replacement)
ANW 4821 BW66GYJ Volvo B5LH Moorfields-Birkenhead Central (rail replacement)
MR 508103/120 Birkenhead Central-Hooton
ANW 4802 BT66MTJ Hooton-Chester (rail replacement)
Took photos in Chester
VT 221103 Chester-Crewe
VT 390044 Crewe-Birmingham New St
LM 323218 Birmingham New St-Kings Norton

ANW-Arriva North West
LM-London Midland
MR-Merseyrail
VT-Virgin Trains

[Tony]

So in 20 minutes you got from City to Walsall, then to McDonalds, then to Bradford place and onto the 4M. Then got to Merry hill in an hour. Before it only taking an hour to get back to Walsall in an hour, the closest 4M to the time you have said is 1607, the one before 1542 (which isn't timetabled to arrive at Walsall until 1711).

*Sniff Sniff* I smell bullshit. @karl724223

I think your corrct there @Dom
Although quoted as being the 17/1/17 The first three journies were actually worked by those buses yesterday (21/7), so he is quoting what he did yesterday to get to Birmingham and back to Walsall. as for the rest ?????

[Kevin]

I think your corrct there @Dom
Although quoted as being the 17/1/17 The first three journies were actually worked by those buses yesterday (21/7), so he is quoting what he did yesterday to get to Birmingham and back to Walsall. as for the rest ?????

Does time travelling come under round trips as well?

[Kevin]

21/01/17 a short one, to a friends house in Nuneaton via some new ground

NX 6727 - X51 - 08:45 Scott Arms to city
NX 1835 - 17 - 09:02 city to Coventry Road
iGo KX07 KNW - 28A - 09:17 Small Heath to Ward End
Diamond 20541 - 25 - 10:00 Ward End to Bromford Bridge
NX 2248 - 72 - 10:12 Bromford Bridge to Saltley Gate
NX 4622 - 70 - 10:32 Saltley Gate to Water Orton
XC 170105 - 11:02 Water Orton to Nuneaton

First time I've ever been to Water Orton station
Not surprised to see no ticket machine or even permit to travel, and equally not surprised to find the guard made no attempt to walk down the empty train to sell a ticket from a station which he would full well know has no purchase options. I wonder how many tickets are ever sold from there and if that has any bearing on how officially under used it is

[Kevin]

28/01/17 - finishing off bits of Coventry

NX 6730 - X51 - 07:30 Scott Arms to city
NX 6847 - X1 - 08:05 City to Coventry
Johnson's YY15 NJ? - 42 - 09:36 Pool Meadow to Coundon
--- Walk to Brownshill Green ---
NXC 4417 - 7 - 10:29 Brownshill Green to Coundon Road
NXC 4416 - 5 - 10:59 Coundon Road to Foleshill Road
NXC 2174 - 20 - 11:31 Foleshill Road to Oban Road
NXC 2155 - 20E - 11:55 Oban Road to Foleshill Road
NXC 2177 - 20A - 12:08 Foleshill Road to Bell Green
iGo BU04GVD - 30 - 12:22 Bell Green round Lentons Lane loop and back again
NXC 2177 - 20A - 12:48 Bell Green to Arena
NXC 4407 - 4 - 12:59 Arena to Hen Lane
NXC 4994 - 13 - 13:15 Whitmore Park terminus to city
Stagecoach 39680 - 55 - 13:43 City to Keresley
NXC 4216 - 16 - 14:18 Keresley to city
NXC 2161 - 9A - 14:48 Pool Meadow to Green Lane, walk across to Kenilworth Road
NXC 2175 - 18A - 15:17 Kenilworth Road to Tile Hill
NXC 4452 - 5 - 15:45 Tile Hill to Canley Sainsburys
NXC 4764 - 11 - 15:57 Canley Sainsburys to Pool Meadow
NXC 4771 - 12X - 16:23 Pool Meadow to station (had time to do the whole run to uni and back but prospect of 4776 was too much)
NXC 4776 - 12X - 16:37 station to Pool Meadow
Johnsons YY15 NJK - 87 - 17:35 Coventry to Knowle
--- Vain hope here that the 87 would get to Knowle just before the 18:10 S3 across to Hockley Heath, alas Diamond were actually running on time and missed it, plan was to catch the X20 into Brum ---
Diamond 30136 - S3 - 18:19 Knowle to Solihull
NX 2210 - 37 - 18:48 Solihull to City
NX 6731 - X51 - 19:30 City to Tower Hill
--> pub

[Adam 404]

28/01/17 - finishing off bits of Coventry

NX 6730 - X51 - 07:30 Scott Arms to city
NX 6847 - X1 - 08:05 City to Coventry
Johnson's YY15 NJ? - 42 - 09:36 Pool Meadow to Coundon
--- Walk to Brownshill Green ---
NXC 4417 - 7 - 10:29 Brownshill Green to Coundon Road
NXC 4416 - 5 - 10:59 Coundon Road to Foleshill Road
NXC 2174 - 20 - 11:31 Foleshill Road to Oban Road
NXC 2155 - 20E - 11:55 Oban Road to Foleshill Road
NXC 2177 - 20A - 12:08 Foleshill Road to Bell Green
? ? ? ? - 30 - 12:22 Bell Green round Lentons Lane loop and back again - because of reasons - and in the excitement of completing that I forgot to ID the bus
NXC 2177 - 20A - 12:48 Bell Green to Arena
NXC 4407 - 4 - 12:59 Arena to Hen Lane
NXC 4994 - 13 - 13:15 Whitmore Park terminus to city
Stagecoach 39680 - 55 - 13:43 City to Keresley
NXC 4216 - 16 - 14:18 Keresley to city
NXC 2161 - 9A - 14:48 Pool Meadow to Green Lane, walk across to Kenilworth Road
NXC 2175 - 18A - 15:17 Kenilworth Road to Tile Hill
NXC 4452 - 5 - 15:45 Tile Hill to Canley Sainsburys
NXC 4764 - 11 - 15:57 Canley Sainsburys to Pool Meadow
NXC 4771 - 12X - 16:23 Pool Meadow to station (had time to do the whole run to uni and back but prospect of 4776 was too much)
NXC 4776 - 12X - 16:37 station to Pool Meadow
Johnsons YY15 NJK - 87 - 17:35 Coventry to Knowle
--- Vain hope here that the 87 would get to Knowle just before the 18:10 S3 across to Hockley Heath, alas Diamond were actually running on time and missed it, plan was to catch the X20 into Brum ---
Diamond 30136 - S3 - 18:19 Knowle to Solihull
NX 2210 - 37 - 18:48 Solihull to City
NX 6731 - X51 - 19:30 City to Tower Hill
--> pub

The 30 would of been BU04GVD :) @Kevin

[Kevin]

The 30 would of been BU04GVD :) @Kevin

Thank you sir, duly edited

[Will]

04/02/17

Arriva Midlands (3734, YJ57AZG) > 9 > Bridgnorth > Wolverhampton
Diamond (20837, YJ54BUF) > 50 > Wolverhampton > Wednesfield
NXWM (4354, BX02AVK) > 89 > Wednesfield > Walsall
Thandi (GX53MWP) > 334 > Walsall > Bilston
Banga Buses (YT51 EBA) > 530 > Bilston > Wolverhampton
Arriva Midlands (3734, YJ57AZG) > 9 > Wolverhampton > Bridgnorth

[Kevin]

05/02/17
Stagecoach Dayrider Gold - Sunday only ticket £4.30 valid for an incredible distance

NXWM 4859 - 51 - 08:09 Scott Arms to city
LM 323201/323205 - 08:55 Birmingham New Street to Redditch
SMR 15452 - X19 - 10:10 Redditch to Stratford
SMR 10730 - 18 - 11:00 Stratford to Evesham
SMR 10730 - 18 - 11:50 Evesham to Coventry (2 and a half hours on the same bus, not gonna lie me arse was a bit numb by the time we were coming through Leamington)
SMR 39684 - 56 - 14:25 Coventry to Nuneaton (20 late)
--- Wetherspoons in Nuneaton for food and drink while I had well over an hour to kill ---
SMR 36167 - 48 - 16:50 Nuneaton to Tamworth
AMN 4409 - 110 - 18:35 Tamworth to Sutton Coldfield
NXWM 4227 - 5 - 19:05 Sutton Coldfield to Scott Arms

Well happy with that
Could easily have also done the 118/119 (whichever one was due) round to Kingsbury and Hurley, but that would involve spending even more money on food out when I already had food to eat at home, plus it was dark so wouldn't really appreciate the route much

Blog post in the signature

[Will]

03/03/17

LM172 (didn't ID) > Kidderminster > Stourbridge
LM139001 > Junction > Town
Hansons (1540, KP54BZA) > 287 > Stourbridge > Merry Hill
NXWM (6716, YX15OYL) > X10 > Merry Hill > Pensnett Ind Est.
NXWM (865, SN15LCL) > 205 > Pensnett Ind Est. > Dudley
NXWM (6120, SN15LGC) > 140 > Dudley > Birmingham
LM172342 > Snow Hill > Kidderminster