TRAIN DISRUPTIONS TO WEMBLEY

[GR10 LFC]

I know someone has posted on the Carling Cup thread but could be missed so starting a new thread to make people aware:

National Rail Enquiries - Current Service Alterations

An engineering train has derailed at Winsford.

Because of this, the following alterations will apply until further notice:

Trains are currently unable to run between Preston / Liverpool Lime Street and Crewe

Passengers travelling between Liverpool Lime Street and Crewe / London Euston should travel via Chester or Manchester Piccadilly.

Passengers travelling between Runcorn and Crewe / London Euston should travel by replacement bus service to Crewe

Passengers travelling between Wigan North Western or Warrington Bank Quay and Crewe / London Euston should travel via Manchester Piccadilly.

 

Virgin Trains advise that passengers travelling to Wembley Stadium for the Carling Cup Final should consider driving to Crewe, Stafford or Stoke-on-Trent and using alternative services from those stations.

To find out whether this will impact your journey and to get alternative options planned for you, please use the National Rail Enquiries real time Journey Planner, or call TrainTracker on 0871 200 49 50.

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[Randy Marsh]

Just been to Lime St, no rail replacement busses at all. Had to spend a wedge on taxis back to ours to pick up the car and drive to Crewe. Absolute fucking disgrace.

[Strontium]

Someone should be shot for this. Literally.

[Block109'er]

Looks like I'll be going from Manchester Piccadilly :-(

[Furmedge]

Jump a Wirral line train to Chester, trains to London from there I've heard.

[DAgger]

This from the NR:

 

An engineering train has derailed at Winsford.

 

Because of this, the following alterations will apply until further notice:

 

Trains are currently unable to run between Preston / Liverpool Lime Street and Crewe

Passengers travelling between Liverpool Lime Street and Crewe / London Euston should travel via Chester or Manchester Piccadilly

Passengers travelling between Runcorn and Crewe / London Euston should travel by replacement bus service to Crewe

Passengers travelling between Wigan North Western or Warrington Bank Quay and Crewe / London Euston should travel via Manchester Piccadilly

 

 

Ticket acceptance

 

Passengers may use:

 

Merseyrail services between Liverpool and Chester

First TransPennine Express and Northern Rail services between Liverpool and Manchester

Arriva Trains Wales services between Chester and Crewe

 

 

Virgin Trains advise that passengers travelling to Wembley Stadium for the Carling Cup Final should consider driving to Crewe, Stafford or Stoke-on-Trent and using alternative services from those stations.

 

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Good luck to everyone travelling.

[gkmacca]

Good luck to everyone - hope you get there in good time. I bloody HATE rail travel these days. It gets worse rather than better.

[Randy Marsh]

Managed to pick up one at around ten from Crewe. Absolutely chocker, people stood all the way. This country is shambolic.

[Strontium]

Fortunately the charter service was unaffected, apart from being 45 minutes late. That said, it was 90 minutes late coming back when there were no line issues.

 

*tuts like Alan Partridge*

 

This country...

[JER]

When you let idiots like Richard Branson loose on our national trains, what do you expect?

[brucespanner]

FUCKING THATCHER AND FUCKING SELLING THE COUNTRY DOWN FUCKING THE RIVER, FUCK THE HARRIDAN AND THE FALL OUT FROM PRIVATISATION. SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SHIT, ANOTHER STRIKE AGAINT LIVERPOOL AND THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.

 

I'LL DANCE A JIG WITH DRINK IN HAND THE DAY THAT FUCKER GOES OFF TO FELLATE EL DIABLO FOR ALL ETERNITY, CUNT!!!!!

[dudek#1]

Fuck me a train derailed... it's not like they planned it is it?

[Block109'er]

All's well that ends well...

 

Laughing at all the Police at Manchester Piccadilly shitting themselves when 500 Liverpool fans all turned up in the space of about 15 minutes.

 

Anyway got there in good time and if you were lucky enough not to have your tickets stamped there or back (as I was) get on the phone to the train company and get a full refund, citing the disruption.

[Redder Lurtz]

Fuck me a train derailed... it's not like they planned it is it?

 

Thatcher derailed it. With the corpses of dead coalminers.

[The Bugged Out]

it was john major who sold off the railways

[Strontium]

Not sure I can blame any politician, past or present, for the 30 minutes we were stuck at Crewe while coppers arrested six people on the train for singing racist songs.

[Scott_M]

Assume with it being a record Carling Cup attendance, everybody got there one way or another.

[Whelan]

Not sure I can blame any politician, past or present, for the 30 minutes we were stuck at Crewe while coppers arrested six people on the train for singing racist songs.

 

If you stopped at Rugby you were on the same train as me! Was it the South Parkway one?

 

If so, I wondered what went on as they were in the next carriage. I thought it was a fight as they looked like they wanted to scrap as they stepped off the train.

[Redder Lurtz]

Not sure I can blame any politician, past or present, for the 30 minutes we were stuck at Crewe while coppers arrested six people on the train for singing racist songs.

 

Frankly I'm astounded that you can't see that was obviously Andrew Lansley's fault. All of it. Blinkered people like you disgust me.

[Yozzer]

I was on the South Parkway one, didn't half piss me off on the way back having to wait for some gobshites to be taken off the train.