Midweek farnborough Bus

Forty · by **Forty** » 28 Jan 2007 19:19

Anyone have any idea if the new bus routes are operating for the Wigwam game - an dif so, what time and where from in Farnborough?

RFCMod · by **RFCMod** » 28 Jan 2007 21:55

Forty wrote:Anyone have any idea if the new bus routes are operating for the Wigwam game - an dif so, what time and where from in Farnborough?

Not sure if its running yet but its picking up from Kingsmead
Where at Kingsmead they failed to explain,which is good seeing its a big place

SWLR · by **SWLR** » 28 Jan 2007 22:14

per a club email
(1st column for 3pm, 2nd for 8pm - Villa TBA)

Farnborough Kingsmead 12:31 18:01
Prospect Estate, Shop 12:38 18:08
Camberley, Pembroke Broadway 12:46 18:16
Blackwater Post Office 12:52 18:22
Yateley Manor Park 12:58 18:28
Yateley, Vigo Lane/Coppice Gardens 13:03 18:33
Yateley, St Swithuns Church 13:09 18:39
Sandhurst Yorktown Road 13:18 18:48
Sandhurst, New Inn 13:24 18:54
Crowthorne Iron Duke 13:29 18:59
California Crossroads 13:39 19:09
Arborfield Cross 13:46 19:16
Madejski Stadium 14:00 19:30

All four of the new buses are due to arrive at 7:30 - not much time for a beer, let alone allowing for the evening traffic.

Forty · by **Forty** » 29 Jan 2007 11:17

I'm told the busses are definitely running tommorow night. 18.08 as per previous post. Anyone know where the 'Prospect Estate Shop'is - is is near Willies the Chinese Chippy on Sand Hill?

readingfc13 · by **readingfc13** » 29 Jan 2007 15:37

Forty wrote:I'm told the busses are definitely running tommorow night. 18.08 as per previous post. Anyone know where the 'Prospect Estate Shop'is - is is near Willies the Chinese Chippy on Sand Hill?

It's next to the costcutter by Totland

RFCMod · by **RFCMod** » 29 Jan 2007 15:47

readingfc13 wrote:
Forty wrote:I'm told the busses are definitely running tommorow night. 18.08 as per previous post. Anyone know where the 'Prospect Estate Shop'is - is is near Willies the Chinese Chippy on Sand Hill?
It's next to the costcutter by Totland

Nice

Forty · by **Forty** » 29 Jan 2007 20:58

readingfc13 wrote:
Forty wrote:I'm told the busses are definitely running tommorow night. 18.08 as per previous post. Anyone know where the 'Prospect Estate Shop'is - is is near Willies the Chinese Chippy on Sand Hill?
It's next to the costcutter by Totland

Thanks - but actually that doesn't help either. What road is it on?

Farnborough Royal · by **Farnborough Royal** » 30 Jan 2007 16:24

Forty wrote:
readingfc13 wrote:
Forty wrote:I'm told the busses are definitely running tommorow night. 18.08 as per previous post. Anyone know where the 'Prospect Estate Shop'is - is is near Willies the Chinese Chippy on Sand Hill?
It's next to the costcutter by Totland
Thanks - but actually that doesn't help either. What road is it on?

Mayfield Road I think.

Forty · by **Forty** » 08 Feb 2007 19:32

Thanks for all the advice. the bus arrived at the Mad exactly on time, with only a small hiccup when the driver tried to take us to the brewery. Will be using it again!

amdocsroyal · by **amdocsroyal** » 08 Feb 2007 21:26

Forty wrote:Thanks for all the advice. the bus arrived at the Mad exactly on time, with only a small hiccup when the driver tried to take us to the brewery. Will be using it again!

...8 days for the return trip -- did he detour to the brewery again..

Forty · by **Forty** » 10 Feb 2007 09:06

Return trip was courtesy of Mrs B and the rarely spotted Curo's number 1 fan, one of their friends and the most girlie collection of CD's the world has even seen.

AJ~ · by **AJ~** » 23 Feb 2007 09:10

SWLR wrote:per a club email
(1st column for 3pm, 2nd for 8pm - Villa TBA)

Farnborough Kingsmead 12:31 18:01
Prospect Estate, Shop 12:38 18:08
Camberley, Pembroke Broadway 12:46 18:16
Blackwater Post Office 12:52 18:22
Yateley Manor Park 12:58 18:28
Yateley, Vigo Lane/Coppice Gardens 13:03 18:33
Yateley, St Swithuns Church 13:09 18:39
Sandhurst Yorktown Road 13:18 18:48
Sandhurst, New Inn 13:24 18:54
Crowthorne Iron Duke 13:29 18:59
California Crossroads 13:39 19:09
Arborfield Cross 13:46 19:16
Madejski Stadium 14:00 19:30

All four of the new buses are due to arrive at 7:30 - not much time for a beer, let alone allowing for the evening traffic.

Was considering using this for the FA Cup match on Tuesday as I might not have my usual car share, but that scheduled arrival time does worry me. Seems odd they leave half an hour later for an evening game with all the extra traffic on the road.

I presume it must be a heavily filled bus lane route?

Oh, and can anyone who has used this help on where that Sandhurst Yorktown Road stop is? I was thinking it may be the other side of Sandhurst to that New Inn stop down by the now closed Safeway, the name is not very specific though! Cheers.

ArfnipIsARoyal · by **ArfnipIsARoyal** » 23 Feb 2007 10:48

Bracknell bus running on tuesday? If so, times?

amdocsroyal · by **amdocsroyal** » 23 Feb 2007 13:03

ArfnipIsARoyal wrote:Bracknell bus running on tuesday? If so, times?

On the OS
http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/pa ... 06,00.html

and here on the Stagecoach site
http://www.stagecoachbus.com/uploads/95 ... 5B1%5D.pdf

I am using the 8pm KO times as the guide and arriving 5 mins early just in case ...

AJ~ · by **AJ~** » 26 Feb 2007 19:38

AJ~ wrote:Oh, and can anyone who has used this help on where that Sandhurst Yorktown Road stop is? I was thinking it may be the other side of Sandhurst to that New Inn stop down by the now closed Safeway, the name is not very specific though! Cheers.

Anyone able to help on this, pretty please?

The first stop after St Swithuns Church but before the New Inn.

Tinrib · by **Tinrib** » 27 Feb 2007 10:03

AJ~ wrote:
AJ~ wrote:Oh, and can anyone who has used this help on where that Sandhurst Yorktown Road stop is? I was thinking it may be the other side of Sandhurst to that New Inn stop down by the now closed Safeway, the name is not very specific though! Cheers.
Anyone able to help on this, pretty please? The first stop after St Swithuns Church but before the New Inn.

Looking at the route it seems that the bus will do a left out of Swan Lane upto the New Inn roundabout and then do a right at the mini roundabout into Crowthorne.( Thus avoiding the Railway bridge with the sharp bend)

So assuming that to be true, the Yorktown Road stop is the one outside the parade of shops/takeaways in Sandhurst town centre, and not in College Town which is where the closed Safeway is. You could if yuo drive park your car in that parade of shops outside blockbuster etc and jump on there.

I asked the same question to Stagecoach at the time (As i live in Sandhurst) -and they didn't have a bloody clue!!

AJ~ · by **AJ~** » 27 Feb 2007 10:37

Tinrib wrote:
AJ~ wrote:
AJ~ wrote:Oh, and can anyone who has used this help on where that Sandhurst Yorktown Road stop is? I was thinking it may be the other side of Sandhurst to that New Inn stop down by the now closed Safeway, the name is not very specific though! Cheers.
Anyone able to help on this, pretty please? The first stop after St Swithuns Church but before the New Inn.
Looking at the route it seems that the bus will do a left out of Swan Lane upto the New Inn roundabout and then do a right at the mini roundabout into Crowthorne.( Thus avoiding the Railway bridge with the sharp bend)

So assuming that to be true, the Yorktown Road stop is the one outside the parade of shops/takeaways in Sandhurst town centre, and not in College Town which is where the closed Safeway is. You could if yuo drive park your car in that parade of shops outside blockbuster etc and jump on there.

I asked the same question to Stagecoach at the time (As i live in Sandhurst) -and they didn't have a bloody clue!!

Cheers for that. I just got an email response from them too...

Please ignore the time for Yorktown Road (this seems to be a mistake), The bus comes up Swan Lane turns left in Yorktown Road to stop at the New Inn and then turns right and goes along Crowthorne Road

Interesting!

Tinrib · by **Tinrib** » 27 Feb 2007 11:26

AJ~ wrote:
Tinrib wrote:
AJ~ wrote: Anyone able to help on this, pretty please? The first stop after St Swithuns Church but before the New Inn.
Looking at the route it seems that the bus will do a left out of Swan Lane upto the New Inn roundabout and then do a right at the mini roundabout into Crowthorne.( Thus avoiding the Railway bridge with the sharp bend)

So assuming that to be true, the Yorktown Road stop is the one outside the parade of shops/takeaways in Sandhurst town centre, and not in College Town which is where the closed Safeway is. You could if yuo drive park your car in that parade of shops outside blockbuster etc and jump on there.

I asked the same question to Stagecoach at the time (As i live in Sandhurst) -and they didn't have a bloody clue!!
Cheers for that. I just got an email response from them too...

Please ignore the time for Yorktown Road (this seems to be a mistake), The bus comes up Swan Lane turns left in Yorktown Road to stop at the New Inn and then turns right and goes along Crowthorne Road
Interesting!

As I thought!

Theres only 70 yards between turning out of Swan Lane before doing the right towards crowthorne so no real suprise there.

AJ~ · by **AJ~** » 27 Feb 2007 11:34

Indeed, the route makes much more sense now. Still the time element that worries me with it trying to get through the traffic to Reading from Sandhurst at 6.55pm. I'll make my mind up on risking it later!

The Surgeon of Crowthorne · by **The Surgeon of Crowthorne** » 27 Feb 2007 12:28

I hadn't checked this thread before & so I didn't realise the Farnboro' bus stopped in Crowers.

Has anyone here caught the bus from the Iron Duke before? Does it work well?