This has got nothing to do with Rolling Stock, length of trains, which company is the current operator, just incompetent staff at Brighton station.
Well the railways had been privatised by then, so we did know what the future would hold (all costs cut to drive profits). The point I was making was that the whole 'travel by train' argument was glossed over, people just talked about 'getting to Falmer', the differences between weekend and midweek train services were hardly mentioned. (They were occasionally by rail insiders - who were told to sush as we needed to put out a united front. There will be no problems). And of course as you say even with the privatised trains to a large extent that's true, but the current weekday shitshow is the sound of chickens coming home to roost.
Because it's nice to sit on a dry rather than wet saddle - especially if it's been raining but isn't massively heavy.
While i understand your gripe, the park and ride queue isn't covered, the train queue isn't covered, the walkway to the car parks isn't covered. Covering the bike racks isn't going to suddenly help clear a midweek train queue.
I don't have a gripe - I've never not got one of the covered spots.
What is that big empty car park for, the one next to East Stand. There’s the bit at the front where possibly the players and officials park (I once noticed Pedro heading towards it anyway), then above that is quite a big empty space. Every time I glance out of the East Upper Windows I see this massive empty car park and wonder what it’s for.
Bennett’s Field - suggest you look up previous posts regarding everything to do with it. You can spend the next three days engrossed in the goings on.
Also beats having to chain it to a fence
I used to go to SC Freiburg in the Bundesliga nearly every fortnight when I lived in those parts. They have 4,000 fans who regularly cycle so there are big bike parks everywhere around the ground. For the rest of us there was a constant stream of trams from the station/city centre to outside the ground. These would be increased in frequency on match days. For some reason they were able to find a good, easy solution to the task of getting fans to and from a ground outside the city centre. For us Brits this remains a problem to be left in the "too hard, not my responsibility" file.
Aye its a wonder why they put a roof on the stadium…after all we are waterproof
I wasnt thinking of those heading to Brighton, (although I have often wondered if it would be better to head to Brighton and then back to Lewes). More those who are headng to Eastbourne and Seaford who for some reason don't want to change at Lewes even though it can be quicker to do so (Eastbourne bound in particular).I tried that once, and yes it was raining, thinking this is a clever ploy. The result was two Brighton bound trains pulled in while I was still waiting for the Lewes train. Best laid plans and all that.
Ah so that’s Bennet's Field. I’ve often seen it mentioned here but didn’t know that was it. OK. Seems like a massive waste of useful space at the moment, regardless of future plans for it.
Yes I imagine a load of buses somehow negotiating 1,000's of fans between the railway bridge where the players park and the exit would be simple and not unsafe at all, you may as well say there is a massive green area in the centre of the stadium to park buses
or are you talking about Bennetts Field area, that doesn't belong the club
Looks like we are home to Leeds
I presume that platform 6 is not directly accessible from the gate where the queue is and it would have been problematic to direct people from the front of the queue round to that platform especially if it meant moving barriers. If that was the case it still beggars the question as to why the train was departing from that platform and not the end ones?
No need for such a snidey response.Yes I imagine a load of buses somehow negotiating 1,000's of fans between the railway bridge where the players park and the exit would be simple and not unsafe at all, you may as well say there is a massive green area in the centre of the stadium to park buses