please don't use the train

infoman

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please don't use the train

« on: September 13, 2022, 04:06:22 »

Burnley will have 5,500 football followers heading to Preston(25 miles away) on tuesday night

Two return services at 22:56pm with a three car unit
and a bus replacement service at 22:57pm

Advise has been issued don't travel to the match by train.


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Ralph Ayres

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Re: please don't use the train

« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2022, 21:03:27 »

That's progress. In years back they'd at least have tacked an extra unit on.


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grahame

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Re: please don't use the train

« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2022, 22:30:17 »

Quote from: Ralph Ayres on September 17, 2022, 21:03:27

That's progress. In years back they'd at least have tacked an extra unit on.

I don't know Burnley and the railway there these days .. but so many long platforms are shorter now - with out-of-use bits from Clifton Down via Trowbridge and Melksham to Sea Mills ...


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