The trains and Coventry station platform queue situation (5 Viewers)
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The Great Eastern
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Sssshhhhh..... Otis will buy all those tickets too....
Otis
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Really do not like contactless cards at all.
Anyone who steals your card can lots of fun with £30 purchases.
Otis
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Everything in Nuneaton is a bit slower.
Nick
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When my wife worked in a shop, they had a young lad start and a Romanian fella came in and kept buying £25 of ciggies over and over again and the lad didn't realise... He must have been out pick pocketing and rinsed them.
Otis
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I find it a retrograde step in terms of personal security.
Otis
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I fear someone pinching it though, or you lose the card.
Anyone could use it.
Wilkinson have had many cases of people keep coming in and using them and they have been suspicious, because those involved have looked down and out homeless, druggy types (no not Willenhall people).
Red House Coaches
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Just got my train tickets. Going by Chiltern as Cov station was a right mess for the 'Checkout' last year and is going to by far worse on Monday.
All the Brummies going for a Bank Holiday dayout in London, from New Street and International, will be arriving by bus - right in the middle of where our lads will be queuing.The 'music' fans are going to wandering around in a state of chemically induced fuge and the Virgin staff (judging by last year) aren't going to have a clue what to do. It'll be carnage.
Chiltern - as they did last year - have issued a revised timetable for Monday, with extra trains from Warwick and Leam, calling at Wembley, then going on into central London (Marylebone) - for us serious drinkers who don't like the Green Man lager.
Pile over to Leamington is my advice, if you're going by train.
Otis - Chiltern tickets are refundable if you buy too many. But their seats are upholstered if you sh*t yourself.
All the Brummies going for a Bank Holiday dayout in London, from New Street and International, will be arriving by bus - right in the middle of where our lads will be queuing.The 'music' fans are going to wandering around in a state of chemically induced fuge and the Virgin staff (judging by last year) aren't going to have a clue what to do. It'll be carnage.
Chiltern - as they did last year - have issued a revised timetable for Monday, with extra trains from Warwick and Leam, calling at Wembley, then going on into central London (Marylebone) - for us serious drinkers who don't like the Green Man lager.
Pile over to Leamington is my advice, if you're going by train.
Otis - Chiltern tickets are refundable if you buy too many. But their seats are upholstered if you sh*t yourself.
Covskyblue
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We have booked the rugby to Euston train ... is Coventry on the same line?
Anybody have any experience of getting the train from rugby last year ?
Anybody have any experience of getting the train from rugby last year ?
North York’s Blue
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Sounds like it’s going to be chaos at Cov station; thankfully get to avoid all that. 35 mins by train straight into Harrow-on-the-hill.
lifelongcityfan
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Most trains that stop at rugby come from the north via nuneaton. Cov trains do travel thru nuneaton, but typically the fast ones do not stop
SKYBLUES90
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No but I was on the virgin train from Cov last year which stopped at Rugby.
Train was absolutely mobbed with no room whatsoever, train pulls up at Rugby, doors open and there’s a bloke stood there with a Leicester top on, never have I seen someone’s arse drop like this poor guy, all friendly banter but he got fairly abused.
Safe to say he probably didn’t make it down to London with the 50 odd trains behind all the same.
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Did they just let everyone jump on whatever the next train was at Cov last year?
Nick
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Yeah, I was the 8.50 I think. Got there about 7.30 and had a few cans waiting, there was a massive queue so they just sort of put you on the train where there was space when you got to the front of the queue. Think I ended up on a train at about 10.
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Oh Christ! Did not realise it was that bad! I’ve got a train at 10:21 won’t be rocking up at 10:20 then!
Otis
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You can have my ticket if you want.
That goes earlier and is first class too. 
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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You can have my ticket if you want.
Knowing you it probably goes in about 20 minutes!?
Nick
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The whole of the main station bit was full of people, then it went outside and then down the side and around the car park. Even if your ticket was for the 9.15 train you werent getting through.
Take plenty of beers with you, or if it's anything like last year you can just drink the 3/4 full ones that people were strangely leaving. Had never seen anything like it. People were baffled when we asked what was up with it. It got to the point I took a picture to try and shame one.
No idea who the legend on the platform was.
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I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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First beer will be at Euston at about 8pm like last year, I’m keeping the same superstitions that saw us win last year!
Nick
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Think I was asleep by then.
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Not a surprise when you’re putting lager in on your weetabix!
Nick
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It was a one off occasion where it was acceptable to stand outside the train station before 8AM with cans of beer. It needed the most making of it.
Otis
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I have one at 7.21. Gets in at 9.10.
fernandopartridge
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I'm going from Manchester just to avoid Cov station. If that ain't commitment I don't know what is.
hill83
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I ended up losing a tenner cancelling my ticket but as my mate just said. Sat in cov train station carpark at 12pm dying for a piss or in the green man 8 pints in, no brainer for £10.
Somerset Sky Blue
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I'm going from Somerset to avoid the queues - that's commitment!
rupert_bear
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Train chap on the radio said there are 2 trains an hour Monday instead of the usual 3 plus one special. Not a lot is it, Don’t know how many a train holds but by the above figures going to take a few hours to shift all the fans.
Otis
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Well my tickets are specific trains only. Valid only on those particular trains.
itsabuzzard
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If anyone on your train's got an ounce of decency, they'll give up their seat for your better half.
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