I remember Stavros !! Very funny days !!
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Is there such a thing as an Albion Train awayday special
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I remember Stavros !! Very funny days !!
KNC
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The specials were great. Apart from the infamous Forest debacle, I don't remember many other breakdowns. BTW, my Forest train got through. I think they usually stopped at H. Hth and Bridges. Certainly, Mullery would get off at Bridges on the way back.
Yeah, Stavros made his presence known. His name was Tony, and he was a guard from Worthing.
The players would normally travel back on the train. A Pullman coach was hooked on the back.
These trains were incredibly cheap. I think it was £5 return for the promotion game at Newcastle.
Yeah, Stavros made his presence known. His name was Tony, and he was a guard from Worthing.
The players would normally travel back on the train. A Pullman coach was hooked on the back.
These trains were incredibly cheap. I think it was £5 return for the promotion game at Newcastle.
Yeah, Tony McLeod wasn't it? I could be wrong. Anyway, a great character and along with Ron Pavey he really was the Albion made flesh. A lot of flesh. Great days.
ees complicated no?
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Wow I wish there were club trains for away games now adays !!!
Words can't really do it justice mate. When I'm lying on my deathbed and I close my eyes for the last time ... and open them to find I'm on the Seagull Special going to Newcastle in 1979 with Stavros booming in my ear that the buffet car has run out of mashed potato and so the sausage special is now off then I shall know I'm in heaven.
bn1&bn3 Albion
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Never went on one myself but have been told many stories about them from my old man. Didn't the players sometimes come down the train after a win to "mingle" with the fans.
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
When the train didn't break down there would always be a suicide on the track to make up for it.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
He died a couple of years ago, colleague of mine till he took early retirement and developed a fixation with Barry Mannilow
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
RIP Stavros
KNC
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And T'Pau!!!
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Great days indeed.
And yes, Mullery did used to get on/off at Three Bridges.
I was on the Forest one that didn't get there - and as the trains weren't the most reliable we often got to the games only just before kick off.
I remember getting to Sunderland once, (we won 2-0) running to the ground and going in the home end by mistake. BAD move!
No point in bringing them back, if you book up early enough you can get cheap train tickets, AND have a drink these days!
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Sorry to hear about Stavros. I remember paying £4 to get to York one year. There was a booze ban on the train but we used to smuggle some tinnies on at Haywards Heath.
I was on the first of two trains turned back for the Forest game. Another poster on here (Birdman) still ribs me about it today as I turned down a place on his coach in favour of the train.
I was on the first of two trains turned back for the Forest game. Another poster on here (Birdman) still ribs me about it today as I turned down a place on his coach in favour of the train.
My Dad was on the one to Notts Forest that never made it! I only did a few, I remember the one to Hull in the FA Cup in Jan 86. The Hull supporters ambushed the train as it pulled out the station at the ground and it was a very cold journey home as our carriage lost most of its windows!
What ever happened to the good old "milk trains", we used to get them for some of the long away trips!!! You used to be able to get a train pretty much any time in the early 80's but these days services stop really early. Used to love the special offers of anywhere in the country for £5 (cant remember the vouchers you used to have to get), but we certainly did a few long trips on those as well!
Not sure they would work now with all the privatised lines, also you can normally have a beer on most trains these days (we very occasionally come across "dry" trains if a big London club heading the same way as us!) but guess any "offical" travel would have to be alcohol free!
What ever happened to the good old "milk trains", we used to get them for some of the long away trips!!! You used to be able to get a train pretty much any time in the early 80's but these days services stop really early. Used to love the special offers of anywhere in the country for £5 (cant remember the vouchers you used to have to get), but we certainly did a few long trips on those as well!
Not sure they would work now with all the privatised lines, also you can normally have a beer on most trains these days (we very occasionally come across "dry" trains if a big London club heading the same way as us!) but guess any "offical" travel would have to be alcohol free!
KNC
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Ha yeah, they were ambushed regularly. Rotherham comes to mind.
We used to get the tickets from a hut on the NW corner of the Goldstone after a game. They were the old Edmundson card type.
We used to get the tickets from a hut on the NW corner of the Goldstone after a game. They were the old Edmundson card type.
Sad to here that . Good Guy RIP Stavros .
Lord Bracknell
On fire
The "official" train to the play-off final in Cardiff was "officially" alcohol free. Apparently.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
No milk, no newspapers, no mail, no parcels carried these days so no need to run these trains