MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Apology accepted, TLO.
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[Travel] New grounds you can get to next season...
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Apology accepted, TLO.
Don't some trains from Brighton call at Selhurst (albeit at weird times)?
You are correct, I went there to watch Whitehawk in the play off final, Borehamwood station isn't far from the ground.
BlockDpete
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Peter Grummit
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Newport (County) also.
PS Only direct train per week is the 1520 arrival on a Sunday (1540 at Cardiff), so unlikely to be of use.
The 0859 weekday service from Brighton to Great Malvern also calls at Cheltenham Spa, for Cheltenham FC.
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Peter Grummit
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Haven’t visited Shrewsbury’s new stadium yet.
Would drive up and make a weekend of it, but won’t bother to visit if midweek.
Would drive up and make a weekend of it, but won’t bother to visit if midweek.
AmexRuislip
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You can get the bus from Churchill Square to the ground.
pearl
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I initially only saw the thread title without reading the OP and was thinking to myself "at least I'll get another chance to visit Preston for the first time".
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pearl
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it stops at Bath too
Hotchilidog
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I initially only saw the thread title without reading the OP and was thinking to myself "at least I'll get another chance to visit Preston for the first time".
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Apart from our inability to win there, Preston is a cracking day out. very nice pubs and in my experience friendly locals.
Looking forward to a re visit to Fratton Park
I remember when Virgin used to run a service via Kensington Olympia to Birmingham, Crewe & Manchester.
Pretty sure this went via Reading for a while as well. But that's gone, and the ground has moved....
worthingseagull123
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What about Barnet?
Is their ground far from Edgware station?
Is their ground far from Edgware station?
Peter Grummit
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It went via Reading, Oxford, Coventry, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Stoke (not Crewe), Macclesfield and Stockport. When it was extended as the 'Sussex Scot' to Glasgow/Edinburgh, it also served Preston and Carlisle.
For a while in the 90s, there was even a summer Saturday 'holiday special' to Eastbourne via Lewes from Manchester and the above stations. Unfortunately it was southbound in the morning before returning in the afternoon, so no practical use for going direct to matches.
In 1983/4, when I was a 2nd year at Warwick Uni., there was a direct Coventry-Brighton service I used to get to home matches, arriving in Brighton at 12. My mum would pick me up, feed me lunch and even sometimes do my washing while I was at the game. I'd then get the return about 6, but had to travel via Victoria and Euston as there was no convenient return journey. With a student railcard, this cost £3.75 return, which was equivalent to 6 pints in the Uni bar! I did 30-odd games that season and we missed out on promotion on the last day to Portsmouth, despite beating Sheffield United.
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Peter Ward
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Its under 2 miles walk from East Croydon Station to Whitehorse Lane, though I'd be more inclined to walk in the opposite direction.
Yes - The Sussex Scot. I remember that - took all day, but very handy!