timbo
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Post by timbo on Sept 22, 2010 7:18:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2010 22:17:02 GMT
I think we’ve now got the message from Timbo’s programmes that Torquay United did a fair amount of travelling over Easter 1958. Long journeys? It was ever thus and we’ve asked before about the extent to which the team travelled by rail as opposed to road in those days. Hardly a surprise the club opted for train travel to the Potteries when you consider the road journey from South Devon fifty-odd years ago - a single by-pass (around Exeter – were there others?), thereafter through the middle of towns. Relying, no doubt, on the driver’s knowledge of how best to get through Bristol and the West Midlands (Kidderminster and Wolverhampton, perhaps, just like my trip to Molineux last night?).
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Post by merse on Sept 22, 2010 22:30:27 GMT
 If they relied too much on the trains these days Barty they'd probably end up back on a rail replacement bus anyway. I heard the team trained at Luton Town's training ground last Friday afternoon which was slightly at odds with the "report" I saw on here about them being stuck in a motorway traffic jam somewhere near Swindon on the morning of the match. That Brighton programme brings back memories of the old "three game Easters" and I well remember travelling on one rather "sad" trip when in the early eighties we played at Reading on Good Friday, overnighted in Nottingham (which "closed" to all night revelry for once) and then played at Scunthorpe's Old Show Ground the next day. Then it was back to Devon and a Monday morning fixture against someone I can't recall ~ phew!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2010 22:57:01 GMT
If they relied too much on the trains these days Barty they'd probably end up back on a rail replacement bus anyway. Speaking of footballers on trains, I've never forgotten the look of dread on Liam Brady's face when he boarded a Preston-bound Sprinter full of Evertonians after an Everton v West Ham game in the late 1980s ("no good looking for first-class, Liam lad!"). Happily each was enjoying the other's company by St Helens.... |
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