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Cook77
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Post by Cook77 » Fri Oct 21, 2016 6:27 pm

Anyone know why the team traveled up today on the train are they hard up
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Re: Travel

Post by hallamblue » Fri Oct 21, 2016 8:18 pm

I'd say it's less tiring tbh than coach or flying ( takes you over 2 hrs to get through terminal at Stanstead when I flew to Newcastle game, so much hanging around). On a train they can get up and walk around can't they.
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Post by Charnwood » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:19 pm

It's not an easy journey from Ipswich - Newcastle and certainly not possible without changing lines either in London or Cambridge/Peterborough. It could be that some of these stations "on the way" suited some of our players better than leaving from Ipswich?.....

That said, players travelling by train is very much something from the past and a long way from those days in the 60's when I used to collect players autographs at Ipswich Station as players arrived and departed from Ipswich Train Station.
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Re: Travel

Post by bluepeter » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:24 pm

i did a few specials back in the day.Bristol rovers and Preston springs to mind.500 pizzed up town fans having it big.TWTD
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Re: Travel

Post by hallamblue » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:30 pm

Anyone remember the Supports train called The Blue Arrow?
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Re: Travel

Post by Shed on tour » Sat Oct 22, 2016 6:01 am

hallamblue wrote:Anyone remember the Supports train called The Blue Arrow?

Yep the first time I went to Newcastle I used it. After being stuck in a traffic jam on the A1 yesterday wish it was still running! :lol:
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Post by hallamblue » Sat Oct 22, 2016 10:19 am

That's the major problem with the A1 Shed isn't it. Get an accident on there and there's no other route you can use to get off it.

Hope the lads put up a good show today.

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Re: Travel

Post by herforder » Sat Oct 22, 2016 12:12 pm

Hope everyone who stayed up there last night had a good time - great place to be for a night out! Similarly, all those travelling today - safe journeys.

Be fantastic to come home with something like a point! COYBs! :D
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Re: Travel

Post by arana peligrosa » Sat Oct 22, 2016 2:57 pm

Wouldn't if have been possible for the team to fly from Stansted to Newcastle ? Prestwick is only some four miles from St James Park and a direct route, but was it Marcus Evans couldn't supply the funds available to allow it ?
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Re: Travel

Post by Charnwood » Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:35 pm

I thought I'd been on every Town "Blue Arrow" Special but clearly not as I didn't go on the trip to Newcastle. Those were definitely brilliant days out.
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Re: Travel

Post by Shed on tour » Sun Oct 23, 2016 3:28 am

Charnwood wrote:I thought I'd been on every Town "Blue Arrow" Special but clearly not as I didn't go on the trip to Newcastle. Those were definitely brilliant days out.
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It was around 1973-74 time. I remember we lost 1-0 but was still a great day out on the Special.
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Post by Charnwood » Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:02 am

Shed on tour wrote:
Charnwood wrote:I thought I'd been on every Town "Blue Arrow" Special but clearly not as I didn't go on the trip to Newcastle. Those were definitely brilliant days out.
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It was around 1973-74 time. I remember we lost 1-0 but was still a great day out on the Special.
That would explain things, I got married in November 73 and bought our first house in May 74, I was probably saving hard. I was also playing Saturday afternoon football at that time.

When did the Blue Arrow start and finish, can you remember Shed?
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Re: Travel

Post by Bluemike » Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:15 am

Cook77 wrote:Anyone know why the team traveled up today on the train are they hard up
A bit odd really as they travelled by coach, saw them myself.
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Post by herforder » Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:46 am

Might have been better had they not travelled at all!
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Post by marko69 » Sun Oct 23, 2016 12:21 pm

bluemike wrote:
Cook77 wrote:Anyone know why the team traveled up today on the train are they hard up
A bit odd really as they travelled by coach, saw them myself.
:lol: first laugh of Sunday.
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