[Football] Trains last night

[Nottseagull]

Hindsight is a wonderous thing! I could have chosen any number of options. I could have taken the Waterloo & City Line from Bank direct to Waterloo station, taken your suggestion, done any number of other routes. The fact is I chose what turned out to be the shit option. It happens. By the way, many trains departing from Waterloo to Southampton do not stop at Clapham Junction. Another lesson I have learned from attending Albion away matches in London.

Actually I didn't realise there was only one Overground station between Tottenham Hale and Liverpool Street so I'd have chosen that route too. What I can't work out though is why you chose to change at Tottenham Court Road instead of Bank. According to this map, the Bank route has no stations to stop at whereas the TCR one has an extra seven. I did think the Waterloo & City didn't operate in the late evening, but your post seems to imply that it does.

 

[el punal]

Actually I didn't realise there was only one Overground station between Tottenham Hale and Liverpool Street so I'd have chosen that route too. What I can't work out though is why you chose to change at Tottenham Court Road instead of Bank. According to this map, the Bank route has no stations to stop at whereas the TCR one has an extra seven. I did think the Waterloo & City didn't operate in the late evening, but your post seems to imply that it does.

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Ah, there’s the rub! I don’t know either. I think at the time I was trying to work out whether the W&C line was still in service at that time of night. I erred on the side of caution (stupidity!) and went for the Northern line option instead, i.e. continue on Central line to Tottenham Court Road then to Waterloo. Big mistake!

 

[Bozza]

Ah, there’s the rub! I don’t know either. I think at the time I was trying to work out whether the W&C line was still in service at that time of night. I erred on the side of caution (stupidity!) and went for the Northern line option instead, i.e. continue on Central line to Tottenham Court Road then to Waterloo. Big mistake!

[MENTION=687]Carrot Cruncher[/MENTION] was, I'm assuming, heading back to Southampton and I saw him at Tottenham Hale underground after the game.

 

[el punal]

[MENTION=687]Carrot Cruncher[/MENTION] was, I'm assuming, heading back to Southampton and I saw him at Tottenham Hale underground after the game.

I didn’t see him, which was a shame as I got on the 11.35 out of Waterloo, full of Spurs fans thinking how wonderful they were, and what a beautiful stadium they have with all their wonderful facilities and gizmos. Then I mentioned that they didn’t have padded seats . . . .

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Indeed we are. If you say Barnham three times then the train terminates as if by magic. Then the fairy godmother waves her magic wand and a Blue Star bus appears with a driver who happens to have the strongest Welsh accent you’ve ever heard. Land of my fathers, boyo!

Would the bus be driven by Dave from Barry Coaches?

 

[el punal]

Would the bus be driven by Dave from Barry Coaches?

Could be!

 

[Nottseagull]

Hindsight is a wonderous thing!

Ah, there’s the rub!

Sorry if it looks like I'm rubbing it in but hindsight has nothing to do with it
A minute's foresight at half time would have made you realise that you could have actually caught the 2235 from Waterloo, thereby getting to Southampton as early as 23:49 (74 minutes is pretty good going for London to Southampton.)

This 3-minute journey is actually shorter than the time you would have spent stationary in those other seven stations!

 

[pasty]

Northumberland Park to Liverpool St was a decent option in terms of getting away but the journey was slow. 23:16 from VIC, eventually left around 23:30 and then ran slow for most of the journey arriving Shoreham just before 01:00. Tedious and feeling tired today....

If you wanted Victoria, you should have got off the train from Northumberland Park just one stop down at Tottenham Hale then got the Victoria line to Victoria. That's my 3 days a week commute.

 

[el punal]

Sorry if it looks like I'm rubbing it in but hindsight has nothing to do with it
A minute's foresight at half time would have made you realise that you could have actually caught the 2235 from Waterloo, thereby getting to Southampton as early as 23:49 (74 minutes is pretty good going for London to Southampton.)

This 3-minute journey is actually shorter than the time you would have spent stationary in those other seven stations!

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That’s right, kick a man when he’s down!

 

[Nottseagull]

That’s right, kick a man when he’s down!

Actually Bank to Waterloo is only a 2 minute journey because the driver has to walk the length of the shuttle train in order to drive the return journey and arrive back at Bank 5 minutes after leaving it (6 minute service from both stations in the late evening). It's only 2 kilometres, so you could have probably walked it faster than..... OK, that's enough, I'll stop now

 

[el punal]

Actually Bank to Waterloo is only a 2 minute journey because the driver has to walk the length of the shuttle train in order to drive the return journey and arrive back at Bank 5 minutes after leaving it (6 minute service from both stations in the late evening). It's only 2 kilometres, so you could have probably walked it faster than..... OK, that's enough, I'll stop now