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[Albion] Trains to Brighton…….straight down the middle…..



jonny.rainbow

Well-known member
Oct 29, 2005
6,847
Yeah, I've witnessed it many times, people fighting their way back from a wrong turn.

Oh and I like the megaphone lady doing her thing.
That is genuinely surprising considering most people getting the train to Brighton post match will have arrived by a train from Brighton pre-match on the opposite platform. Why they would think to go up over the ramp to the platform they got off on earlier is baffling.
 




Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
20,756
Eastbourne
That is genuinely surprising considering most people getting the train to Brighton post match will have arrived by a train from Brighton pre-match on the opposite platform. Why they would think to go up over the ramp to the platform they got off on earlier is baffling.
I am with you all the way there!
 




schmunk

Why oh why oh why?
Jan 19, 2018
10,360
Mid mid mid Sussex
That is genuinely surprising considering most people getting the train to Brighton post match will have arrived by a train from Brighton pre-match on the opposite platform. Why they would think to go up over the ramp to the platform they got off on earlier is baffling.
Because a significant number of people attending the match are STUPID.

A recent survey found that ALMOST HALF of people have below-average intelligence.
 














zefarelly

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 7, 2003
22,789
Sussex, by the sea
Because a significant number of people attending the match are STUPID.

A recent survey found that ALMOST HALF of people have below-average intelligence.
Add to that they're pissed as farts, vacant on bugle and staring at phones its a bloody miracle many make it as far as the train station.

paddling in the shallow end of the gene pool is harmless .
 


oneillco

Well-known member
Feb 13, 2013
1,322
I'm happy that she's there directing people but I also wish that she'd stop using that monotonous tone of voice. If you have a typical long wait it gets very irritating...
 






Kenn

Member
Jun 15, 2023
35
That is genuinely surprising considering most people getting the train to Brighton post match will have arrived by a train from Brighton pre-match on the opposite platform. Why they would think to go up over the ramp to the platform they got off on earlier is baffling.
Because Falmer station normally has one entry/exit. When the Brighton trains arrive pre-match that is still the case so it's a reasonable assumption - especially for away fans - that you would re-enter that way after the game and cross the footbridge inside the station - as would be the case at any other time.
 


GJN1

Well-known member
Nov 4, 2014
1,548
Brighton
Because a significant number of people attending the match are STUPID.

A recent survey found that ALMOST HALF of people have below-average

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin​

 


jonny.rainbow

Well-known member
Oct 29, 2005
6,847
Because Falmer station normally has one entry/exit. When the Brighton trains arrive pre-match that is still the case so it's a reasonable assumption - especially for away fans - that you would re-enter that way after the game and cross the footbridge inside the station - as would be the case at any other time.
I’ve arrived on the train from Lewes and alighted at Falmer and on the Westbound platform side many times. No need to cross over the very small bridge between platforms. It would be incredibly impractical and unsafe to herd a trainload of people that way.
 






Kenn

Member
Jun 15, 2023
35
I’ve arrived on the train from Lewes and alighted at Falmer and on the Westbound platform side many times. No need to cross over the very small bridge between platforms. It would be incredibly impractical and unsafe to herd a trainload of people that way.
You were talking about people arriving from Brighton pre-match on the eastbound platform and not needing to be guided post-match. Why have you changed what you're saying?
 
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jonny.rainbow

Well-known member
Oct 29, 2005
6,847
You were talking about people arriving from Brighton pre-match on the eastbound platform and not needing to be guided post-match. Why have you changed what you're saying?
I am referring to your assertion that there is a one-way exit system for all arrivals at Falmer Station. This is not the case in my experience.

With regards to my original point, I reiterate that it seems bizarre to me that people who arrived at Falmer from Brighton would head back to the same platform they arrived at if they were heading back to Brighton after the game.

This is why I find it strange they need to have someone with a loud hailer telling people not to go back up the ramp to the platform they arrived at. It makes no logical sense to do that.
 


Jack Straw

I look nothing like him!
Jul 7, 2003
7,115
Brighton. NOT KEMPTOWN!
I've got this flippin' ear-worm now.
To the tune of that bit of Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror",
"Trains to Brighton- straight, down the middle"!
 








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