[Brighton] Travel to the stadium

[Bridcutt]

Hey everyone.

I usually walk to the stadium as I lived near Falmer however I have now moved & I'll be travelling into Brighton via bus for the game tomorrow . I have heard so many horror stories over the years of the trains, the park and ride being a disaster at Mill Road etc. What is the 'best' way to get to the stadium nowadays? Considering getting the 25 from the Old Steine. Trying the train or is it worth going to Mill Road and getting the park and ride?

Walking isn't an option for me timewise

Thanks in advance!

 

[pure_white]

Simply pathetic organization at the station. Got there at 6.30 and then missed the first 20 minutes of the game.

No trains moving.
A 3 car train leaving at 10 past 7
A train out of service stuck in one of the platforms
No information given out over the tannoys

Turns out that the police at the station requested that kick off be delayed, but the FA and PL turned the request down. This is what we were told by the OB at the station.

Bloody useless.

Hard to believe police request refused. Why?

 

[pure_white]

Police made an absolute car crash by giving Palace Fans priority. Why send them via Brighton and not Lewes. Sussex Police have a lot to answer for. Why give a whole 8 car train to Palace when there’s about 200 of them. Then leave thousands in the queue, priorities were all over the shop, a mess.

Cant see how police can force away fans to come down via Lewes. They couldve put all 200 in one carriage, boarded it themselves. Kept fans apart and kept them on train until all other carriages emptied.

 

[pure_white]

Police made an absolute car crash by giving Palace Fans priority. Why send them via Brighton and not Lewes. Sussex Police have a lot to answer for. Why give a whole 8 car train to Palace when there’s about 200 of them. Then leave thousands in the queue, priorities were all over the shop, a mess.

Cant see how police can force away fans to come down via Lewes. They couldve put all 200 in one carriage, boarded it themselves. Kept fans apart and kept them on train until all other carriages emptied.

Police made an absolute car crash by giving Palace Fans priority. Why send them via Brighton and not Lewes. Sussex Police have a lot to answer for. Why give a whole 8 car train to Palace when there’s about 200 of them. Then leave thousands in the queue, priorities were all over the shop, a mess.

Cant see how police can force away fans to come down via Lewes. They couldve put all 200 in one carriage, boarded it themselves. Kept fans apart and kept them on train until all other carriages emptied.

 

[Munkfish]

Total shambles tonight. I’ve just got home to hove. Absolute disgrace. UTA 1-0 to the Albion.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

If the police wanted the kick off delayed then it would have happened, no one in FA or PL is going to say no on a safety call

I’d say they were clearly lying, no such request I doubt was made and it was to appease

 

[Insel affe]

Left the ground 10 minutes after the final whistle and back at the racecourse park and ride in half an hour.
What's not to like.

 

[HantsSeagull]

As others have said - before the game was a car crash. They were prioritising getting the Palace fans to the ground. We queued from 6 pm and didnt move for an hour. Managed to get on a 4 coach train at 7.10 with massive queues still behind us. Missed first minute. Mate who was slightly behind us missed first 20 minutes and the goal. Absolutely pathetic levels of organisation from police/southern fail.

 

[Springal]

As others have said - before the game was a car crash. They were prioritising getting the Palace fans to the ground. We queued from 6 pm and didnt move for an hour. Managed to get on a 4 coach train at 7.10 with massive queues still behind us. Missed first minute. Mate who was slightly behind us missed first 20 minutes and the goal. Absolutely pathetic levels of organisation from police/southern fail.

To be fair that is the police not Southern. But I’m not sure how you queued from 6 and didn’t move. We got there just before 6 and was on a train about 6.40 I think

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Police made an absolute car crash by giving Palace Fans priority. Why send them via Brighton and not Lewes. Sussex Police have a lot to answer for. Why give a whole 8 car train to Palace when there’s about 200 of them. Then leave thousands in the queue, priorities were all over the shop, a mess.

Why did that happen ? Last time I went to Palace home I got on a train to Lewes at Burgess Hill. It was full of Palace fans. There were police on the train but they didn’t interfere with everyone changing at Lewes. They didn’t stop people using Lewes or Falmer stations. What was different about last night ?

 

[zefarelly]

No idea what the problem was @ Btn before ther game, but the longer they held a growing crowd the more volatile the atmosphere got.
after the game I got to Btn pretty quickly. Again, people management at the station was shit so I went to the Albert for neck oil and eneded up getting a cab home.

The Police were fine, it's the trains that are the problem.

 

[southstandandy]

Just arrived at the Amex - lovely and quiet here. What's the fuss? When's kick off again?

 

[heathgate]

Wet night..... nephew lives up in the Bates Estate,...wet, busy, evening games call for Zone D parking permit allowing parking in Barcombe road almost as far as Coldean lane ... 4 of us made the 15 minute walk to our seats in good time...... got back to the car at 2206.... Back in Worthing at 2240.... damp, but happy.

 

[atomised]

Yep, exactly this.
I had a few beers in the Nelson, got to Brighton station around 5.50, and was pleased to be inside and at the front of the queue by the door barriers. "Job done" I thought, especially when a train rolled in. So we waited. And waited. And waited. After about 20 minutes of nobody moving I asked plod what was going on, and he said there was a train arriving from London, the Palace fans would be escorted straight from that onto the waiting train.

I can understand that, but having got there at 5.50, it was bloody annoying not to get on a train till pushing 6.30. Why not more trains ?? I can only imagine the queue behind must've been maHOOsive. Glad I got there when I did.

A lovely post-match 40 minute wait in the rain at Falmer as well (3 trains going the other way before the one to Brighton turned up).

Its SO lovely travelling to and from the Amex these days, isn't it.

must've been in that same queue. got on a train eventually just before 630 having waited for nearly 40 minutes . was a nightmare with a few thankfully decent but noisy palace fans near the front

 

[tronnogull]

Since we've somewhat moved on to travel away from the game, I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the massive queues for the Mill Road P&R. I did my usual clap em off, have a pint and a chat, watch the highlights and rolled out in the rain to the queue. Usually it isn't too bad by then but yesterday it was a long wait in the rain. Finally got on a bus at 10.55....

 

[worthingweird]

Didnt like being penned up for an hour, nearly went home...

 

[Hotchilidog]

I went to the station as soon as I stopped work at 5.30, so glad I did. This game is always chaos. The irony was this should have been on a saturday this season when things are so much easier to manage. Midweek it's a real pain with the sort formation trains

 

[heathgate]

Since we've somewhat moved on to travel away from the game, I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the massive queues for the Mill Road P&R. I did my usual clap em off, have a pint and a chat, watch the highlights and rolled out in the rain to the queue. Usually it isn't too bad by then but yesterday it was a long wait in the rain. Finally got on a bus at 10.55....

No bendy bus option with higher capacity.....they were phased out due to no ongoing maintenance and spares availability.

 

[attila]

I normally cycle but have a lung problem (too much shouting plus bad cold!) and so was on the train, can only echo what everyone else has said, I got there at 6pm and was there just in time for March's goal. Ridiculous.

 

[Tony the Pony]

Since we've somewhat moved on to travel away from the game, I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the massive queues for the Mill Road P&R. I did my usual clap em off, have a pint and a chat, watch the highlights and rolled out in the rain to the queue. Usually it isn't too bad by then but yesterday it was a long wait in the rain. Finally got on a bus at 10.55....

Mill Road was a nightmare both before and after the match. The buses from Crawley that are used at weekends were obviously not available, so replaced with coaches. However you can't have standing passengers on a coach, hence a lot fewer on each coach, resulting in massive queues in the pouring rain!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

No bendy bus option with higher capacity.....they were phased out due to no ongoing maintenance and spares availability.

. . . plus they were discharging horrible diesel pollutants into the air, to the extent that the local council had banned them from being used in central Brighton.