Hillian1
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Trains on Monday- waaaaah! [Update: full match day service]
- Thread starter Wozza
- Start date
Which one?
kelownaseagull
Active member
How do you book?
You're too late now unfortunately.
http://www.eventtravel-hub.co.uk/pl...-fc-monday-16th-may-2016---ko-1945-1290-p.asp
Should be no problem with hydration and carbs. If I didn't have little one with me then an early knock off and a bus / cab / walk pub crawl would have been in order. However, he's louder and more positive than me so he definitely needs to come!
Hotchilidog
Well-known member
- Jan 24, 2009
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Exactly. The normal timetable on a weekday whilst not great is still sufficient to clear Brighton station between 6.30 and 7.15. The SASTA were predicting tonight's chaos as early as last week suggests that they know already that their inadequate staffing levels will be sufficent to run a normal timetable. The company clearly cannot be arsed to make any effort to try and get staff for what will be a very busy night. It is a disgrace, disappointed to see the Argus blaming the RMT and quoting Peter Bottomley slagging off the workers today, when we all know who is really at fault.
I'm not leaving it to chance and have taken a half day so I can get back in plenty of time.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
I think it's fair to say that I, along with 1000's of others, had tonight down as a play-off date (always in the hope we would be watching Boro on TV). Is 9 days since our destiny was confirmed too short a period to organise a few more trains?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
You can organise as many trains as you want but there's no staff to run them.
At our request, Southern Rail has delayed planned engineering works between Lewes and Eastbourne. Full service will run as follows... #BHAFC
Falmer to Brighton: 21:36, 21:45, 22:02, 22:17, 22:22, 22:40, 22:50, 23:16, 23:21, 23:37, 23:48, 00:03 & 00:05. #BHAFC
Falmer to Lewes: 21:54, 22:05,22:15,22:35, 22:44, 22:53, 23:02, 23:16, 23:34, 23:36 & 00:05. #BHAFC
Falmer to Brighton: 21:36, 21:45, 22:02, 22:17, 22:22, 22:40, 22:50, 23:16, 23:21, 23:37, 23:48, 00:03 & 00:05. #BHAFC
Falmer to Lewes: 21:54, 22:05,22:15,22:35, 22:44, 22:53, 23:02, 23:16, 23:34, 23:36 & 00:05. #BHAFC
Is there a guarantee they will have the staff to run the trains though?
What have those posted times got to do with work between Lewes and Eastbourne ?
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
I read it that work have been cancelled so the normal midweek trains will run heading East is the second list
brightn'ove
cringe
Good work Paul Barber.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
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Behind Enemy Lines
Well-known member
I don’t know the exact clauses of the contract but ask the nearly 30,000 people who are expected later what they think about the legal semantics of it and my guess is they won’t be particularly concerned about Southern's "obligations" for "additional" games, which have happened for three out of the last four seasons - quite a regular occurance I'd say. You know sometimes in life we're asked to do something a little bit extra at no personal advantage to ourselves. And the vast majority of us do this because we can see it’s the right thing to do, to help out a bit. As I said, Southern have had enough time to organise a proper service tonight and in my view should try and be a bit more flexible in the circumstances and help get people home. But apparently that's too much to ask for.
This is normal Brighton westwards
22:33 too full to enter (train waiting in station, not allowed to board)
22:43: cancelled (this train never runs)
23:04 beginning of the queue gets on this train
23:13 ordinary time, train to catch
23:43 known to catch this train at least twice when other trains cancelled, delayed or too full to enter
The only correct answer is nobody has got a clue. Southern got their usual caveat in early doors that it will be a cluster, and have now revised that opinion after pressure from the club. But what is really going to happen? Who TF knows.
