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OK i now understand what you meant. And what you’re saying is a consequence of having a mixture of different length trains: by chance (and Sod’s Law) the short trains will often be the ones hitting the highest demand. Put on consistently long trains and everything’s fine.

Errrr, they’re the same trains. They go to Brighton and simply reverse out and go back to Eastbourne, Lewes or Seaford whence they came. The only exception would be if they happened to have some spare carriages at Brighton on the platform the train from Falmer is entering to link to before...

This is the right answer. Falmer, Brighton, Eastbourne and Seaford can all take eight carriage trains, and the club needs to manage their contract with the rail providers to ensure that they always run 8 carriage trains. No excuses. One of the sets on the Seaford service was only three...

There was a railway guy on the East platform showing an encouraging amount of common sense by spotting emptier front carriages and re-opened the gate to allow people to run up to the front and get on. What was bad was a crush at the gate where the abled queue objected to the number coming down...

Trouble is that just as you achieve that state, your accoutrements stop working, work when you don’t want them to, or begin to fall off.

I went to my first WSL game yesterday. The shambles outside was so disappointIng. It took 35 minutes to get inside and I missed the first five minutes and others were still trying to get in. The stewards were hopeless. They knew no more than we did about which gates were open and nobody dared...

Which would mean restaurant capacity for 7500 all eating at the same time……

… nor flying to the USA and back in the same week. See post 129.

Yea, I know, and the Ottomans, the Germans (parts 1 & 2), the Arabs themselves, and the Israelis themselves, and countless other vested interests, were all totally inconsequential in the creation of this mess.

That horse should not be worked….

It’s tricky. Do you move it from Crawley, with a good percentage of the ground filled but miles from “home”, to the Amex which will feel a bit empty and lose a lot of money? Or do you gamble that bringing the team to the Amex will increase the attendances and become more economic? Leicester...

And it automatically updates dates and times as they change.

Try this. https://pl.ecal.com/. Just pick Brighton from the list. It doesn’t cover cup or Europe games.

I’m staying in Birmingham city centre Friday night. Can anyone with experience of match days advise the best way to get to the ground on public transport Saturday morning, understanding there are no trains, please. I’m tempted to walk (about an hour) to remove unpredictability. Is it true that...

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I’m told (don’t know whether it’s true) there’s a reason for the lack of carriages for the last two home games. There’s the generic issue of shortage of carriages because of the recent scrapping of the ghastly old trains on the Seaford line. But overlaid on that is that many carriages were put...

On the Today programme he was referred to as playing a “Russian spy” in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Methinks their researchers must be young.

My prized possession has got to be my dear mother who I love to bits. I just wish there weren’t quite so many bits falling off her down in the cellar. NB.

Thanks for the info: it seems you know what you are talking about. I know there’s an issue with the length of the platform at Lewes, but it is still possible for people to walk through to get off. But my main observation is that yesterday was a weekend, yet all the Seaford trains were only 4...

Here are a couple of practical, and not too difficult, suggestions to help the trains. Firstly, the club should talk to Southern (they do, after all, hold the contract with them for the subsidy) and ensure that all trains on match days are eight coaches. Up to Thursday this season, the trains...