It did work well, home at a similar time, but we left on 89 mins.
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[Travel] Trains shitshow - next STRIKE - October 8th (Spurs)??
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It did work well, home at a similar time, but we left on 89 mins.
- Aug 8, 2005
- 26,653
The sad fact is that the road network surrounding the AMEX is far superior to the rail network and there is ZERO chance of the rail network being improved. With increasing electric cars the club should take every opportunity to snuffle as much additional car parking at the expanding universities as it can. Maybe look for further park and ride sites as well? Trains will never get better than they are I am afraid and it’s totally out of the clubs control to improve.
pure_white
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- Dec 8, 2021
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I blame PB for the weather.
Oh and about the trains....best service you get per se, before you cough up and we have for a whole season so no incentive for the lazy overpaid train bods to improve. Wrong place for stadium over-reliant on train transport.
Oh and about the trains....best service you get per se, before you cough up and we have for a whole season so no incentive for the lazy overpaid train bods to improve. Wrong place for stadium over-reliant on train transport.
faoileán
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- Jan 29, 2021
- 896
You what?
Can you please take this Brexit shit to the bear pit where it belongs! I was hoping that years down the line and a new season people would finally get over polluting every thread on here with this boring over argued bollocks. I am sure I cannot be the only one here that is just totally bored and tired of it now to the extent I don't even come on here as much as I used to!
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
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49 bus is your friend here. Portslade all the way to just before the Bridge car park. Seeing as how they're every 10-15 minutes you could get one to the Bevvy, have a couple of pints there, then catch a later one to complete your journey. You'd even get a seat. But don't go telling everybody...
Thats not actually an overly bad shout sir. Journey time is around an hour (which considering I can WALK it in 2 hours) is still a bit of an arse. But I am a deeply unpleasant and unsociable beast, so an hour there and an hour back in personal solitude with my bluetooth headphones and a few pods sounds far less stressful than being squashed up with a bunch of feral shirtless tattoo'd coked-up morons on a SASTA cattlewagon.
Duly noted.This may well be trialled for the Dirty Leeds game. Any chance of avoiding the existential horror of being cooped up in a SASTA carriage with their particular brand of unique mono-browed YARKSHIRE ratboys is to be gratefully grasped.
drew
Drew
362 posts in 12 years!!! Can't believe you ever came on here regularly anyway. As for Brexit, it is a reality that affects a hell of a lot of things. Just because you're bored doesn't mean everyone else dismisses it so easily.
Neville's Breakfast
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It’s fine to just read NSC. There is no requirement to post and he doesn’t need his contributions validated by anyone else.
el punal
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Do Southern actually plan ahead, as in being a bit proactive, look at various future events that are taking place in their region, identify guaranteed increase in passenger numbers, consider putting on extra carriages to cope with demand? The answer, it seems, is one big, fat, f***ing NO!
I caught the 10.28 Southampton to Brighton sardine tin yesterday. It was full by the time it got to Chichester, after Worthing it was so rammed no one could board. Probably everyone could have predicted that there would be huge numbers wishing to travel to Brighton on a baking hot weekend with football fans, day trippers, hen parties, weirdos and so on. But not Southern. Is it at all possible for them to cope with the predicted demand or do they just sit in their ivory towers doing sweet FA?
I caught the 10.28 Southampton to Brighton sardine tin yesterday. It was full by the time it got to Chichester, after Worthing it was so rammed no one could board. Probably everyone could have predicted that there would be huge numbers wishing to travel to Brighton on a baking hot weekend with football fans, day trippers, hen parties, weirdos and so on. But not Southern. Is it at all possible for them to cope with the predicted demand or do they just sit in their ivory towers doing sweet FA?
Probably the day trip to the seaside mob trying to get back to London.
GT49er
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They always did - that's why they came in in the first place!
I'm a bit baffled by the people blaming the club for problems with the trains - Barber doesn't run the rail service!
I'm sure the club is doing its best to get SASTA working effectively but, having had more than a decade of commuting to London, I wouldn't be hopeful of any response.
I believe that SASTA is unique among train operating companies in that they get subsidies no matter how they perform - so there's no incentive to be co-operative. It's annoying, but it's scarcely the club's fault.
I'm sure the club is doing its best to get SASTA working effectively but, having had more than a decade of commuting to London, I wouldn't be hopeful of any response.
I believe that SASTA is unique among train operating companies in that they get subsidies no matter how they perform - so there's no incentive to be co-operative. It's annoying, but it's scarcely the club's fault.
- Jun 27, 2012
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One of the few things they can do is encourage people to arrive early / leave late by drinking/eating. Thus stagger journeys . They do this far more than other clubs who prefer to get rid of fans post match.
Lucky you ! The P&R buses were a shambles yesterday. Took 20 minutes for a single one to turn up at Mill Road yesterday when normally theres 3 or 4 queued at 1pm. Coming back was worse - standing in the heat for an hour. And even when you did manage to get on all the windows were open so the A/C couldn't do it's job. Thinking about Seagulls Travel next season.
I don't want to drive to every home game, so went by train for the first time in years.
Was ok.
We stayed back in the NS till 6.
I was really surprised by the length of the queue, if there wasn't a shuttle service then at least that's explained.
Signage in Btn station was awful tourists for London in the West Coast queue, etc.
Train cancelled.
Then onto Hove change, Angmering change again.
Yet for last season we were leaving so early in order to get parked at Mill Road I reckon yesterday took less than an hour longer, which was spent in the NS and seemingly on a rubbish train day.
I'll persist a little longer with the train.
Oh and didn't [MENTION=33581]Tom Hark, Preston Park[/MENTION] get a barrel load of shite, for an identical thread, a few weeks ago?
Was ok.
We stayed back in the NS till 6.
I was really surprised by the length of the queue, if there wasn't a shuttle service then at least that's explained.
Signage in Btn station was awful tourists for London in the West Coast queue, etc.
Train cancelled.
Then onto Hove change, Angmering change again.
Yet for last season we were leaving so early in order to get parked at Mill Road I reckon yesterday took less than an hour longer, which was spent in the NS and seemingly on a rubbish train day.
I'll persist a little longer with the train.
Oh and didn't [MENTION=33581]Tom Hark, Preston Park[/MENTION] get a barrel load of shite, for an identical thread, a few weeks ago?
southstandandy
WEST STAND ANDY
- Jul 9, 2003
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£6 for a pint - they're having a giraffe! (£3.80 in my local for Harveys)
Shocking service yesterday
Was also on that train . Expected the shambles so left pub at 1:35 with a view to getting to ground at 2 . Didn’t arrive until 2:30
Getting back after also crap
Football is great but my god is it an absolute ball ache to get there
Absolute shambles southern
No one accountable
Was also on that train . Expected the shambles so left pub at 1:35 with a view to getting to ground at 2 . Didn’t arrive until 2:30
Getting back after also crap
Football is great but my god is it an absolute ball ache to get there
Absolute shambles southern
No one accountable
Since1982
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You should follow a decent club, like Wealdstone
No train hassle there.
I recall it always being an easy journey by bus from my home in South Harrow to the Lower Mead Stadium - but that was nearly 50 years ago!
Thanks Drew, interesting that you associate post count to how often someone visits a forum. I am totally happy for Bozza to post my visitng stats if he has them. I would guess I have come on here most days in that 12 years, I am just more of a listener than a talker. I massivley value the opinons and comments on here of a lot of people as they are incredibly knowledgable and I enjoy reading what they post a lot.