major train chaos on cc final day?

[graveyard johnny]

have heard the train companies are advising people not to travel by train that bank holiday weekend in to London as they have planned to do lots of line work that weekend? without any consideration for our blue ribbon event, if this is true it must be time to move away from Wembley and the dump we call a capital and have a total re structure of the cc

[GUBRATS]

Just now, graveyard johnny said:

have heard the train companies are advising people not to travel by train that bank holiday weekend in to London as they have planned to do lots of line work that weekend? without any consideration for our blue ribbon event, if this is true it must be time to move away from Wembley and the dump we call a capital and have a total re structure of the cc

What's a train ?

[paulwalker71]

Is this simply a re-post from last season?

[Father Ted]

Network Rail have done that almost every year for the past ten, bar one, the RFL though insisted on  the C Cup Final being on that weekend. With the move to July 1st it looks like they've finally seen sense. 

[Dave T]

15 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

What's a train ?

Very good

[Oliver Clothesoff]

It wouldn’t be Challenge Cup Final day if there were trains running. 

[Futtocks]

Bank Holidays are always awful times to travel by train. It has been years since I even considered using the network over the Easter weekend, for instance.

[graveyard johnny]

wasn't there a day when trains were special laid on for Wembley and the cc or is that a dream from the past that I once had?

[deluded pom?]

21 minutes ago, paulwalker71 said:

Is this simply a re-post from last season?

No. Apparently the All Party RL Group were supposed to be asking the rail company involved about it.

[Oxford]

5 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

wasn't there a day when trains were special laid on for Wembley and the cc or is that a dream from the past that I once had?

Yes!

[graveyard johnny]

Just now, Oxford said:

Yes!

yes there was, or yes it was a dream?

[Essai Machine]

11 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

wasn't there a day when trains were special laid on for Wembley and the cc or is that a dream from the past that I once had?

It happened all the time in the 80's .

Normally the Queen commanded the Mallard and The Flying Scotsman be taken out of retirement to cope with increased Northern rail traffic .

One year they shipped the Shinkansen Bullet Train over from Japan to cope with the vast numbers of Pie-Eaters !

[graveyard johnny]

6 minutes ago, Essai Machine said:

It happened all the time in the 80's .

Normally the Queen commanded the Mallard and The Flying Scotsman be taken out of retirement to cope with increased Northern rail traffic .

One year they shipped the Shinkansen Bullet Train over from Japan to cope with the vast numbers of Pie-Eaters !

stand up roy hudd

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

Heard it was the East Cost line this year and anyone travelling from Yorkshire needed to travel from Sheffield. Thought the West Coast main line to Euston was supposed to be ok this year, we bought our tickets a few weeks ago and nothing was mention about the West Coast main line, has this changed?

 

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

Kings Cross Station is closed both Saturday (24th) and Sunday (25th) with no trains running south of Peterborough on those 2 days.

[Pudsey]

Lner not running trains into London so we will be missing our first cup final in years. 

[Manx RL]

53 minutes ago, Essai Machine said:

It happened all the time in the 80's .

Normally the Queen commanded the Mallard and The Flying Scotsman be taken out of retirement to cope with increased Northern rail traffic .

One year they shipped the Shinkansen Bullet Train over from Japan to cope with the vast numbers of Pie-Eaters !

Vast numbers of pie-eaters or numbers of vast pie eaters?

[Leyther_Matt]

1 hour ago, Pudsey said:

Lner not running trains into London so we will be missing our first cup final in years. 

Trains still running fine to St Pancras via Sheffield so better than the complete no-go that has been Euston in recent years for those travelling from the north west. 

 

1 hour ago, graveyard johnny said:

wasn't there a day when trains were special laid on for Wembley and the cc or is that a dream from the past that I once had?

Wigan charted their own train for a final earlier this decade. Would be an interesting link up for the RFL to look at but I think the focus is generally on National Express because of their sponsorship deal with Wembley. 

1 hour ago, Cumbrian Fanatic said:

Heard it was the East Cost line this year and anyone travelling from Yorkshire needed to travel from Sheffield. Thought the West Coast main line to Euston was supposed to be ok this year, we bought our tickets a few weeks ago and nothing was mention about the West Coast main line, has this changed?

 

All fine on WCML, we’re travelling down on Saturday morning from Wigan and back to Manchester on Monday (for religious reasons however I will only be attending the Challenge Cup Final if Leigh make the 1895 final though)

[DiH68]

If Hull make it to the final it will be a nightmare. Does it mean you'd have to get a train from Hull to Sheffield, then one from there to St Pancras? Kind of annoying when Hull actually has it's own train service to London, Hull Trains, which you won't be able to use

[deluded pom?]

5 minutes ago, DiH68 said:

If Hull make it to the final it will be a nightmare. Does it mean you'd have to get a train from Hull to Sheffield, then one from there to St Pancras? Kind of annoying when Hull actually has it's own train service to London, Hull Trains, which you won't be able to use

I wouldn't touch Hull Trains with a barge pole Di. It's gone from one of the best services in the country to one of, if not, the worst.

[Bod]

Engineering work near Milton Keynes all weekend so a reduced service in and out of Euston.

[wilsontown]

It could be fun, that's for sure. LNER's helpful advice for the weekend is do not travel. EMT via Sheffield and St Pancras would be possible, but will have the usual bank holiday traffic plus large numbers of refugees from the ECML. I'm travelling on Friday evening and coming back via Manchester on the Sunday so should work out OK, especially as it now appears I will need to fly out of Manchester for work on the Monday anyway...

[gingerjon]

So … you'll just have to change in Birmingham onto the Chiltern line which actually stops at Wembley Stadium?

Or is that up the spout too?

EDIT

Just looked. Chiltern are increasing capacity for trains running to Wembley Stadium that day.

Stop moaning.

[wilsontown]

Hull Trains will apparently be running a limited service into St Pancras, but I would expect it to be very cosy.

[deluded pom?]

1 hour ago, wilsontown said:

Hull Trains will apparently be running a limited service into St Pancras, but I would expect it to be very cosy.

It might also burst into flames half way there if indeed it actually turns up at Paragon.