New £4.75m Ricoh Arena station can take up to 75 passengers per hour

[Hampster Gull]

Oh dear

 

[catfish]

That has really cheered me up.

 

[Mr Putdown]

This brings to mind the famous quote of Captain Oates (he, of Scott of the Antarctic fame) saying to his missus - " I'm going out love, I may be sometime."

His misses?

What did he do, tie a message to a homing penguin and hope for the best?

 

[theboybilly]

a pedent notes one carriage does not make a train.

A pedant notes that it does

 

[Beach Hut]

And there is everyone slagging off Southern Railway on match days and waiting for trains..........

 

[Black Rod]

That is absolutely superb. The comments section is fantastic

"What an absolute farce, we must be the only city who could build a train station at a football stadium and then close it on a matchday"

"I've heard it all now... it's like giving someone a bowl of soup and giving them a fork to use. totally pointless."

 

[GT49er]

No surprise, once the railways were privatised and the bean-counters brought in to replace/ease out/force out railwaymen. Many thanks to John colleague-shagger Major and his Tory government.
Leaves Coventry Council looking equally stupid and inept too.

 

[GT49er]

Who ran the viability assessment on this?

I don't know - but someone at a fairly high executive level should be losing their job (with no golden handshake or pension) over this.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Cov should never ever have left Highfield Road. Shambles.

 

[GT49er]

Cov should never ever have left Highfield Road. Shambles.

....and of course, in those days, THEY HAD THEIR OWN train!

 

[el punal]

His misses?

What did he do, tie a message to a homing penguin and hope for the best?

No, of course not! The point of the sarcastic comment was that if he was a Coventry fan . . . oh never mind.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There might be a shortage of rolling stock but there's certainly no shortage of laughing stock