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:hehe: Bit chaotic at Cardiff General this morning, our train cancelled, advised to get on a train to Newport to get a connection, all sat on there (and stood, hanging off the roof akin to a Bombay express). That was then cancelled, got off and are now on a train to Reading to get a Southampton connection, all good fun though:hehe:
I keep getting images in my mind of Michael Palin. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Is Michael Portillo there ?Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
That two Michaels, coincidentally I’m with my mate, Michael O’Leary:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
If you are with Michael O’Leary why aren’t you flying to Southampton ?Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
He gets that at passport control every holiday he goes on:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
We are on the 9.30 train , it’s chaos, lots of women were going to the bath Xmas market, that weren’t quite expecting to be standing all the way, some if are lot are stupidly pissed already
last year I got the train back home from seeing my mum, and amount of Very pissed Welsh woman on the train going to the Bath Christmas markets were frightening and it was about the same time as yours ( 9.30 ) These were woman of a wide range of ages, from 20's upto 50's , some couldnt hardly stand, it was akin to going to a Tom Jones gigQuote:
Originally Posted by pipster
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Originally Posted by splott parker
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Originally Posted by splott parker
Cardiff General :facepalm:, that's old skool, keep up with the times it's Central, General would probably be considered risky and colonialist !!!
Absolute fecking shambles. My boy and his 3 mates were booked on the 08:51 from STJ. Absolutely rammed so guard told them to wait for the 09:51 which had the same result. What with Cardiff away and also Bath Markets surely this could have been planned better with extra trains!!
In the end I had to drive them to Bath Spa as this was the only way they were getting on the train to Southampton with shoppers disembarking at Bath Spa.
Would also help if the conductors used the train tannoy to ask passengers to move to the centre of the carriages as noticed everyone was congragated by the doors and not budging.
May as well driven them to Southampton and tried getting in the home end.!!
.... are few and far between in the UK" :angry:
Transport for Wales is a crock of shite.
Kudos to all you travellers today, hope you are rewarded with a victory for all your efforts :ayatollah:
Yep this probably wasn’t the wisest away trip to do by train! Fair play to the train companies they put out the advance warnings about avoiding Bath this weekend. The service to Southampton via Reading is a much more pleasant service although more expensive. I imagine the return trip will be much more of a lottery!
We went via Reading…horrendous!! Had to sit in the toilet with the door open due to overcrowding. Luckily a mate had room on a bus home, which is where we are now. Friends texting us with news of shocking overcrowding on the train home. Mick Lynch is right, invest in more rolling stock rather than pacifying shareholders with huge dividends. How can any company sell more tickets than there are seats available? A theatre or cinema couldn’t do it and have patrons stood packed in the aisles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grangenders
airlines do, normally above 10% of seats are overbookedQuote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
On the 6.10 from Southampton it’s fecking rammed now some idiot gets on atarts arguing politics and instantly regrets it
There were idiots waiting for that train who were throwing beer bottles at Southampton fans on the next platform - and hurtling onto the train when it arrived without letting families get off it. Disgraceful behaviour.Quote:
Originally Posted by pipster
Yep and they’ll all be on cctv hopefully, lots of people on the piss
Not going to put up a link but i see some of our female bluebird fans making us look stupid today . twitter is full of people making commentsQuote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
When at Newport the chant from a few was ‘Id rather live in Gaza than Newport’
Which the police took great offence at
I drove today to avoid the disaster that was waiting to happen on the trains.
Jesus Southamption have worse traffic control than Cardiff. Over an hour to do less than a mile trying to get away. It was after 6.30 before we got to the outskirts of the City.
Can you imagine the usual suspects on here if that was being chanted by supporters of an English club!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by pipster
Anyone from this MB ?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cardiff fans trying to get at the Southampton fans at St Mary’s today… 🙈 <a href="https://t.co/Cgj5ZfqBgB">pic.twitter.com/Cgj5ZfqBgB</a></p>— Football Away Days (@FBAwayDays) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBAwayDays/status/1731019877744332960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Arseholes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Led by two women :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
That was Mrs HaB back in the late 80s lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Yeah I can, despite the awful trains, the train driver refusing to work 12 minutes over time at Bristol , the fact we were outclassed by Southampton, still had a good day out. Some idiot trying to talk politics on the train and then realising he shouldnt have. All in all after a few pints and a day out with the lad and his mates - it wasnt too bad - Ive had worse over the years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Scary….a bit like a night match at millwall 85 ish:biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Last week you were a self-proclaimed champion of freedom of speech. Surely if there was one person on that train who would stand up for someone exercising his right it would be you rather than calling the guy an idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by pipster
I didnt speak to him, just watched as he thought he could convince a whole train carriage of pissed up city fans to believe in his politics. Plenty of city fans (exercising their right to free speech) told him to the shut the F up.
It didnt take him long to realise he would have been better waiting for the next train...
Well, At least (Going by the politics forum) We know that JamesWales got home safe after his rant on the Train :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by pipster
Very good but I would guess that the paragon of free speech that is Pipster would be less understanding of a drunken mob exercising their collective rights to free speech by intimidating a bloke to shut the f?ck up if James started an anti-Drakeford rant or if someone was bellowing out anti-vax slogans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto