Mine wasn't rammed, yours was, I suspect ones between it would have got gradually busier. We left as soon as their kick went in - prior experience of Wembley told me what would be waiting if we hadn't.
Oh I agree. Thinking about it though could the club and TOCs have put out a statement such as "Coastway East will only have one service per hour after the game. We strongly recommend that customers travelling to Brighton and intermediate trains use Thameslink trains from London Bridge wherever...
Yep, obviously going to Eastbourne you had to go from Vic but LB was surely better for intermediate Brighton Main Line stations and Brighton itself. Would have allowed the Coastway East folk to have a far less crowded train. We couldn't be arsed to change at Green Park and stayed on to London...
Spot on and, of course, there were some Brighton fans running the marathon who'd been training for it for months or years but still wanted to see the game.
There are some obvious solutions though, some of which could happen, and some of which won't ever, despite being better.
1) The most...