Tonight's trains...

[Notters]

Still home in Burgess Hill before 11? 9 miles in 90 minutes sums up the shambles at the ground. All that money spent on the stadium but they insist on making fans queue for an hour to get a train. Just to sum up, you can fly to Paris in the time it takes for you to get a train 4 miles to Brighton station

That's just tripe. I had a leisurely pint in the wsu, left at about 10, and was on the platform at 10:05 and could've walked straight onto a train to Brighton. Unfortunately for me I had to wait another 15 minutes for one to London Road.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Still home in Burgess Hill before 11? 9 miles in 90 minutes sums up the shambles at the ground. All that money spent on the stadium but they insist on making fans queue for an hour to get a train. Just to sum up, you can fly to Paris in the time it takes for you to get a train 4 miles to Brighton station

What a self skew eyed piece of crap that is. Did the game end before 9.30? I assume our Burgess Hill chum had to walk to the station at both ends? Unless you live in the South terminal at Gatwick, it will take more than hour and a half to get to Paris. No one queued for an hour, that's simply rot.

 

[Gazwag]

wow, a whole ten minutes!!

My point is an empty 8 car train didn't stop at falmer which could have cleared 700 plus supporters from the platform clever clogs

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I've just walked through the door at West Worthing at 23.47; a full two hours after the final whistle. I got the 10.06 from Falmer to Brighton - I'm not quite sure what happened in between. The crowning glory of this farce was when approx 25 irate passengers ran up to the front of the train to find the conductor as the doors didn't open on the 4th carriage at Lancing and apparently 30 to 40 people were trying to squeeze through the internal doors to the third carriage to get off.

Trains are often c@p. but if you got on the train at calmer at 10.06, how long after the final whistle was that? Not the Albion's fault presumably that it then took ages to get home.

 

[South Stand Rebel]

left at final whistle, was on a train at 10.15 to Lewes - the QPR special. half an hour and on the way home, what other stadium is that efficient? You're all a bunch of moany old gits. Have you ever been to an away game? It's exactly the same, except you have to walk for ten to fifteen minutes before you start queueing for twenty minutes.

 

[KJP]

It flowed fine on Saturday. The difference is that everyone wants to head for home at the final whistle at night games. On Saturdays fans are willing to stagger their leaving times. This isn't easy to fix for the club, if you have suggestions for improvement I'm sure that the club would love to hear from you.

The amount of fans leaving at the same time has got nothing to do with it, why did an 8 coach train go straight through falmer without stopping?

It can't be that hard to just line up trains to shuttle between Lewis and Brighton on a match day,

Getting to the game was absolutely fine, the train I got on at hove ended up going straight to falmer, yet it was practically empty even though there was hundreds of people on the usual platform for falmer, the communication at Brighton station is a also a joke, the PA system is not clear at all, just a load of mumbling

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Trains are often c@p. but if you got on the train at calmer at 10.06, how long after the final whistle was that? Not the Albion's fault presumably that it then took ages to get home.

30 mins after the final whistle.
For one train east, there were 4 going into Brighton.

 

[Bozza]

Getting to the game was absolutely fine, the train I got on at hove ended up going straight to falmer, yet it was practically empty even though there was hundreds of people on the usual platform for falmer, the communication at Brighton station is a also a joke, the PA system is not clear at all, just a load of mumbling

I was on that train - the 18:11 from Brighton, stopping only at Falmer and Lewes which arrived in Brighton from Hove only.

It was like a ghost train, with only about 1 in 3 seats taken. I did wonder if it was even announced on the main Brighton concourse, because it was on Platform 3, so doesn't allow them to channel all the football-bound passengers as they do on the 2 platforms on the far East of the station.

What was particularly bizarre was watching another train that had just arrived from the West on platform 1 unload hundreds of Albion fans right next door as we pulled away all but empty.

 

[ali jenkins]

The biggest problem for the Eastbound platform is there are people waiting for different trains. They should just run trains Lewes-Brighton and then people can change at Lewes for either the Seaford or Eastbourne lines. It works on the Brighton side where people just get on the first train they can and get on with it.

 

[KJP]

I was on that train - the 18:11 from Brighton, stopping only at Falmer and Lewes which arrived in Brighton from Hove only.

It was like a ghost train, with only about 1 in 3 seats taken. I did wonder if it was even announced on the main Brighton concourse, because it was on Platform 3, so doesn't allow them to channel all the football-bound passengers as they do on the 2 platforms on the far East of the station.

What was particularly bizarre was watching another train that had just arrived from the West on platform 1 unload hundreds of Albion fans right next door as we pulled away all but empty.

Yea I saw that, that's the train I am normally on. A couple of times the falmer train is still there and I've walked from one to the other.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The biggest problem for the Eastbound platform is there are people waiting for different trains. They should just run trains Lewes-Brighton and then people can change at Lewes for either the Seaford or Eastbourne lines. It works on the Brighton side where people just get on the first train they can and get on with it.

Everybody gets on the first train that they're allowed to get on. I got on an Eastbourne train and changed at Lewes.
The problem was that the gate was shut, allowing a train to go without a single fan on it. Then one train came in which emptied the platform, but not those queueing on the ramps or bridge. Everyone was held back for the special train which was non stop to Victoria and over an hour after the final whistle, the rest were allowed to get on the platform to get whatever came in (which was a four carriage train)

As I have said earlier, the transport manager tweeted that there was a problem last night which made it worse than normal midweek games.

 

[ali jenkins]

I was on that train - the 18:11 from Brighton, stopping only at Falmer and Lewes which arrived in Brighton from Hove only.

It was like a ghost train, with only about 1 in 3 seats taken. I did wonder if it was even announced on the main Brighton concourse, because it was on Platform 3, so doesn't allow them to channel all the football-bound passengers as they do on the 2 platforms on the far East of the station.

What was particularly bizarre was watching another train that had just arrived from the West on platform 1 unload hundreds of Albion fans right next door as we pulled away all but empty.

I've got on that train a few times and it is always empty. It's a good idea to run a train direct from the West as there are a lot of people getting on the train from Worthing/Shoreham and it would definitly help ease the ques at Brighton.

 

[Hamilton]

Tonight was abysmal. Never known it that bad.

Does seem to me a problem that can be improved - if the will was there.

 

[dazzer6666]

Still home in Burgess Hill before 11? 9 miles in 90 minutes sums up the shambles at the ground. All that money spent on the stadium but they insist on making fans queue for an hour to get a train. Just to sum up, you can fly to Paris in the time it takes for you to get a train 4 miles to Brighton station

Didn't queue for anything like an hour. Not 100% sure as I don't check my watch but prob exited WSL about 9.50, as I said a bit of a kerfuffle with the 'special' QPR train but was on this which must've left about 10.20 (and no it didn't sit on the platform for '20 mins' as one poster seems to think, more like 5) and got into Lewes 10.35 ish (was slightly longer as Lewes was an added stop, so it had to go through the station and then reverse back to a longer platform. 10 mins walk to car and 15 min drive home. Saturday was incredibly efficient, last night prob took 20 mins longer. Total time in a queue was easily less than 30 mins. This is the worst it has been for home game this season, but IMHO is fine. Too much moaning on here and exaggeration of every little wrinkle to make it sound worse.

 

[greyseagull]

Trains are often c@p. but if you got on the train at calmer at 10.06, how long after the final whistle was that? Not the Albion's fault presumably that it then took ages to get home.

I have not once pointed blame at the Club

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Normally back to Worthing by 11 for an evening game , 12.15 last night.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Trains last night - Well done to all concerned.

First time I have got he train to and from a game in a while . But everything was superbly marshalled at bothe ends bit like the Albion. At Brighton, squeezed on the 19:15 to Seaford ( still stops at a London Rd lol) at stadium by 19:30. Then afterwards celebrated with a couple of pints , 22:47 to Brighton , Sing Li , 23:05 to Preston Park, indoors by 23:15. No fuss no bother , stewards on hand to direct people , plenty of BT Police to keep order not that there was any need.

Very impressed .

 

[dazzer6666]

When a special train is laid on for 'local' teams, why not wait until 10.30, & sell beer etc in the away end until then.
Brighton fans were prevented from going on the platform when the 9.50 Seaford train went. The next train was 10.05 to Eastbourne, so 30 mins after the end of the match.
4,trains had gone to Brighton in that time.
The special didn't stop at Lewes as I watched it go through whilst waiting for my connection, which was late.

It did. I was on it, along with several hundred others.

 

[Bozza]

Normally back to Worthing by 11 for an evening game , 12.15 last night.

Unless there's a sizeable element of walking or similar once you got back to Worthing, i don't know how that could be the case. I didn't walk down to Falmer Station until 10:30, and I was back at West Worthing station around 11:30.

 

[dougdeep]

It can't be that hard to just line up trains to shuttle between Lewis and Brighton on a match day,

They put in as many as is possible. The line isn't just for football fans. It's LEWES by the way.