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[AUZ505]

Double post

Darcy "confirmed" that the numbers are important:

[brownowl23]

[AUZ505]

[brownowl23]

OK using the timetables from the cartograph.co.uk/stoke_bus website

The buses that run at that time are

21, 21a, 31,64, 101 and 350

I cannot seem to find the timtable for the 33 running by the potteries. The 58a doesnt run that late and I cant find the 94 running into Hanley other that at 08.45 in the morning.

So that makes our bus times and numbers as follows unless someone can find another bus going past this stop. the time it takes to get between hanley bus staion and Bethseda street is apparently 2 mins.

[AUZ505]

Not using a spoiler now. I have some different times than brownowl23 using http://www.travelinemidlands.co.uk

17:02 --> 31
17:04 --> 21 (I do not see from where you got 17:07)
17:15 --> 101
17:17 --> 21A and 31 and 64
17: 27 --> 21 (AGAIN) (so I would have 5 buses before 21 comes the 2nd time, why do you have 31 and I have 21?

Nevertheless (since I do not understand what I am looking for) some more:

17:32 --> 350
17:37 --> I have no 21

[brownowl23]

Auz youve found a far better timetable wesite than me. Yours we can guarentee is current so I think its fair to say go with that.

Ive fopund that the 58 does run at that time round Hanley so that would make our 6th bus number.

So my suggestion would be our bus numbers would be

17:02 --> 31 we know the first bus she saw was the 21.
17:04 --> 21
17:15 --> 101
17:17 --> 31 and 64 there was also a 21a but I think this would be the same numbers as on the 21
17: 27 --> 21 (AGAIN) another 21 so one of the multiples she saw.
17: 22-->54
17:32 --> 350
17:37 --> I have no 21 another 21 so not counted.

So our order of bus numbers = 21, 101, 31 and 64 or vice versa, 54 350

now to figure how they give us a location.

[brownowl23]

Just had this from Darcy

Hi

I've had a lot of time to sit and think about the buses, since I don't really have anything else I can do, except continually try and deflect questions from Charlene about how Flynn is getting on. I remembered this, and I don't know if its helpful to you at all... It was just after 5pm, and one of the staff from the museum ran outside just as the place was shutting. She was one of the ones I'd been talking to about the Hoard earlier on. Ever so nice, she was. Anyway, she asked me if the 31 had gone past yet or not, and I said I hadn't a clue. This was just after I'd seen the first bus with the numbers on... that must've been the 21 I remembered. Anyway, maybe a minute or so later a bus pulled up and she got very excited and got on it... I guess now that it must have been the 31, though I never looked at the front because it had numbers on the side that I was too busy writing down.

Hope that's some help to you!

How's it going with the puzzling? Have you any idea where I need to go next yet? To be honest, right now I'd rather be going anywhere than just sitting around here feeling useless. Poor Flynn, I do hope he's alright...

[brownowl23]

[AUZ505]

Got the same email with the employee catching the 31. So I think the order is

21
31 the bus came a little bit later than scheduled ( - or the PM made a mistake )
101
64
54
350

Let's try all those things I already tried with this new sequence.

[jessie1326]

[AUZ505]

BTW, A cut and copy error occurred: All references to bus 54 should be bus 58.
I think I might have found something. But I first want to check for Darcy's opinion before posting here (else I might confuse everybody).

[jessie1326]

I've looked into it some more, and I came up with the same timetable as Auz. I'll put it below just because I filled it out to until a little past 6pm. I don't think the 58 passes by the right place - she says she was sitting in front of the museum on broad street watching the buses go by right to left, which would be in front of her. The 58 crosses the other direction and stops across the street, not in front of the building. I did find an additional line, though, the PLUM, that stops in (what I think is) the right place.

17:04 - 21
17:15 - 101
17:17 - 21A, 31, 64
17:27 - 21
17:32 - 350
17:37 - PLUM
17:40 - 101
17:42 - 21A
17:49 - 21
18:06 - 64
18:07 - 21

[AUZ505]

New location

[brownowl23]

Well done Auz. I have to admit that my other half had suggested your method but at that point last night I only had 5 bus numbers and of course my times were a bit off so it really wouldnt have helped. He of course is sitting there as mr smug mug right now!

Wonder what Sutton Hoo will bring up for us at least there is a theme going on at present Anglo Saxon finds.

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