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    [Football] Traveling Away With The Albion Way Back When

    Yes - we used one of those. £15 return from Southwick to Montrose to watch Brechin City play a couple of games. Got dropped off by the team bus at the station after they played at East Fife - back in Brighton just in time to catch the 1.06 pisshead's special on the west coast line to Southwick.
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    [Football] Traveling Away With The Albion Way Back When

    And cornflakes. We went on the MotorRail to Scotland and the Lakes on Persil and Cornflake tokens. We had packets of cornflakes piled in the larder all with bits missing off the boxes.
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    [Football] Traveling Away With The Albion Way Back When

    You'd have trouble finding Burnden Park now as well....
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    [Football] Traveling Away With The Albion Way Back When

    The Police were always very helpful like that. I remember going to the Recreation Ground at Aldershot which was less than 10 minutes from the station, and for some unknown reason after the game they basically marched us up a hill in totally the wrong direction to the station - meaning that we...
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    [Football] Traveling Away With The Albion Way Back When

    A trip took a bit of planning in those days. Down to Southwick library to get out their rail map of the country with the large timetable book - and work out the best route and write all the times down for the various legs. Then either home to look in this and see if the ground was shown on...

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