: Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:05 am  

I suppose there are compensations to living in Yorkshire then. Last year we went with Hull Trains, direct, no stops, on time and £30 each way.

Full of Hull fans though........

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:33 am  

MickeyMo wrote:

I have a 'Traveller' ticket which gives me free first class travel on Virgin Trains at the weekend, but going any other way than West Coast means using different providers.

I love that service. Used to use it as a teen travelling up to Saints games and to visit my old man.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:58 am  

Carlos Alberto wrote:

It's laughable how the railways treat customers on weekends and bank holidays as persona non grata. You still have to pay through the nose to stand next to a toilet, but this time you have to change 39 times and it'll take you 3 days.

It's unfortunate but weekends and Bank Holiday's will always be chosen for such works until such a point when the railway network is no longer crumbling thanks to donkeys years of neglect. When else can they do the works?

Apparently, all this is due to come to an end when all the nations tracks are replaced to suit newer, faster trains and we will never have to suffer it again. Unfortunately, that won't be till 2015.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:01 am  

D.D. wrote:

It's unfortunate but weekends and Bank Holiday's will always be chosen for such works until such a point when the railway network is no longer crumbling thanks to donkeys years of neglect. When else can they do the works?

Apparently, all this is due to come to an end when all the nations tracks are replaced to suit newer, faster trains and we will never have to suffer it again. Unfortunately, that won't be till 2015.

At which point the lines they replaced first will be crumbling and decaying and the whole process will begin again.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:17 am  

get 10 mates together and hire a limo for the day. costs about 30 notes each.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:26 am  

SAINT ANDREW wrote:

get 10 mates together and hire a limo for the day. costs about 30 notes each.

£300 return for a limo from sintellisn to wmbers, you sure pal ? Thats not a lot of coin.

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:56 am  

ahhh yea, probably nearer to 60. my bad. still better than train tho!!

: Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:39 pm  

Harry Pinner wrote:

I suppose there are compensations to living in Yorkshire then. Last year we went with Hull Trains, direct, no stops, on time and £30 each way.

Full of Hull fans though........

What a suprise HULL trains full of hull fans when there teams in the final funny that

Re: Rail Travel Wembley : Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:40 pm  

MickeyMo wrote:

Just found out via a post on the Wigan Board that there are extensive engineering works planned on the West Coast line on Bank Holiday weekend. To get down to London requires at least two changes and a five hour journey, and as for getting back that night - forget it. This has scuppered my plans as I was goingto do the journey by train, even if we don't get there.

I know that Network Rail will hardly take much account of the Challenge Cup Final but twith at least one, and hopefully two, of the teams being based on or near the West Coast line it will still be incredibly inconvenient, to say the least.

Be warned!

You have to beat Huddersfiels yet, don't get to confident like Wigan did against Catalans

Re: Rail Travel Wembley : Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:44 pm  

The Brother wrote:

You have to beat Huddersfiels yet, don't get to confident like Wigan did against Catalans

Did you miss this bit?

MickeyMo wrote:

This has scuppered my plans as I was going to do the journey by train, even if we don't get there.