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Reading away - Boxing Day
- Thread starter RM-Taylor
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blue'n'white
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There always used to be trains on Boxing Day - I used to get to quite a few matches by train.
Not running on Boxing Day only started a few (maybe 10 or so) years ago.
Not running on Boxing Day only started a few (maybe 10 or so) years ago.
readingstockport
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Longer ago than that but you are right, it is a recent'ish occurance.
Incidentally a warning. Several pubs normally visited tend to shut on boxing day and there will be few if any buses running. Last year reading buses offered their drivers such shit payment for working that none of them agreed to work, not even for the special hire services which lots of pubs run to the ground. Taxis will be few and far between and will be charging a damn sight more than normal so expect to pay at least £15 for the taxi ride to the game from the town centre.
One pub which should be open and is quite welcoming to away fans is the Nags Head on Russell Street - decent beer and cider as well for those who like that sort of stuff. Not sure if the Hobgoblin, now renamed incidentally, will be open or not. Sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't. The Allied Arms in St Mary Butts usually does open boxing day for a while at least.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
If it's anything like last Boxing Day it'll be car as far as Patcham, fill up with petrol, check bbc website, turn round, go back to pub, get completely rat arsed 
bellsize seagull
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probably be snowed off !
DarrenFreemansPerm
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Any ideas as to what our allocation will be?
tonymgc
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I'm gutted to be missing this one. My gf lives in Bracknell & has lots of Reading supporting family so was planning on going up for crimbo which would've been perfect for Boxing day. However i have to work boxing day now so everythings been buggered up.
should be in region of 4200 so plenty for all.
swindonseagull
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Oh please I hope so....30 mins from my house and I will be in Philippines..
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Cornish seagull!
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Can you come via cornwall mate lol.Or give me a tenner and jump in my car
DanielT
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that's well nice of you to offer for us to house sit for you!
SEAGULLS TILL I DIE
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- Jan 6, 2008
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rubbish, i live right in the middle of the line from paddington to reading/oxford! just got my ticket and didnt realise there would not be trains, may have to get taxi now, going to be a fortune! unless i stand on junciton 7 of the m4 with a sign saying reading
Joe Gatting's Dad
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Initial allocation is only 2000.
Peter Grummit
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rubbish, i live right in the middle of the line from paddington to reading/oxford! just got my ticket and didnt realise there would not be trains, may have to get taxi now, going to be a fortune! unless i stand on junciton 7 of the m4 with a sign saying reading
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Joe Gatting's Dad
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Just phoned the ticketline and got straight through with no queue - unbelievable!
that's cos BHA have to buy the tickets off Reading. if we sell out the initial 2,000 (hahahahahahahaa no chance) then Reading can sell BHA the other half of the allocation.
Another Berkshire Seagull
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Good pub choices. The nags is my local and a fine pub it is too.
They run a special hire service for footy normally, but dont know if running on boxing day and as a pub a little out the way from the station etc... its a trek back to any of the normal modes of transport (or ~50min walk to the ground - no way!)