Away Game Travel

[West Acton]

Anyone ever done the old football specials???? guessing they were fun in an odd kind of way!!!

I would like to see the club/clubs hook up with the train companies and try and get some deals on reduced travel on the trains. Tended to go by car in recent years but going to try and do a few more on the train this season but the prices are an absolute joke

I read somewhere return tickets for Yeovil are £10 at the current time!!!!!!!

MYU any chance we could set up a sticky for cheap train prices to away games when we come across good deals so we can all try and take advantage???

[Factamondo]

young wests it was a 'pleasure' sitting in stinking carriages with broken windows for hours on end.....give me a helicopter/plane/stretch limo every saturday!

[West Acton]

How far did you travel on one mate???

During the recent heatwave a fully air conned carriage would have been magnificent

[UpperP]

young wests it was a 'pleasure' sitting in stinking carriages with broken windows for hours on end.....give me a helicopter/plane/stretch limo every saturday!

Was all good fun back in the 70's/80's.

Decent S class merc or similar & definitely not white. Much more classy than them stretch limo's.

[suttonhoops]

Those were the days daphne knocking out the sandwiches in the cage with Vic keeping guard.

[Ed the Ball]

I remember one year early 80's coming back from Leeds on a special, for half of the way back we were locked in the parcel cage!
I was only 14-15 years old and remember looking up to the olders.
Great times 1981-84

[OldOakHoop]

Remember going up to Carlisle during the 82/83 season with Vic and John (Smirnoff) Proudlock on board. On arrival we slipped the escort and soon discovered the place was full of heathens! By the time we eventually got back to Euston they literally had to pour us all out of the train. Happy days indeed.....

[QPRWEBBIE]

Went to many places on the rattlers in the 80's, taking the light bulbs out to hurl at other supporters at Crewe station on the way back. We gotbthebwindows smashed in just outside Liverpool on the way to the milk cup semi in 86, they were the good old days and will forever stick in me head.

[loneranger]

Remember going up to Carlisle during the 82/83 season with Vic and John (Smirnoff) Proudlock on board. On arrival we slipped the escort and soon discovered the place was full of heathens! By the time we eventually got back to Euston they literally had to pour us all out of the train. Happy days indeed.....

Remember proudlock having to be put in a luggage trolley when we got into Crewe years ago.he was decent aint seen him for ages.

[WCE]

Remember proudlock having to be put in a luggage trolley when we got into Crewe years ago.he was decent aint seen him for ages.

He's still around and goes to games but a lot more slimmer these days. Remember him walking down Wembley high road after certain game in 86 with a 6ft milk bottle and trying to get on the 18 bus, think the driver said no chance.

The specials were a great crack, cheap travel, loads of drink and always looked good at the other end with a mob full of lads getting of the train.

[lymehoop]

I do recall on one occasion one of our female supporters obliged one of our upstanding constabulary, in cattle class obviously

[Since1971]

Yeah great days indeed. Did a lot of travelling on the official trains in the 80's. Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, where didn't we go!
Those old trains were old even then. There was a camaraderie amongst fans and those running the trains, we all remember Daphne B.
Anyone go to Crewe that night we broke down and didn't get there until just before half time. There fans were singing 3:0 and of course we didn't believe them as we beat them 8:1 in the first leg.
Many things can be remembered like coming back from Grimsby when we were promoted to Div 1 and at Lincoln some Posh fans were giving it large as our train slowly went through the station.
Then to their horror it stopped and some of our fans got off and the Posh fled ........ LoL Great memories.

[OldOakHoop]

Was also on that delayed train to Crewe - what a night. Used to work a a steward on the official trains (free travel!) with the likes of Mick Eastwood, Vic, Kev Elder, the late Pete Dale, etc. Great times indeed. Regarding John Proudlock (who drank in the Pavillion at the time), anyone remember the banner at an England away game - "Paralytic Proudlock's Pavillion Army".....

[loneranger]

Was also on that delayed train to Crewe - what a night. Used to work a a steward on the official trains (free travel!) with the likes of Mick Eastwood, Vic, Kev Elder, the late Pete Dale, etc. Great times indeed. Regarding John Proudlock (who drank in the Pavillion at the time), anyone remember the banner at an England away game - "Paralytic Proudlock's Pavillion Army".....

Cant place that one but Remember the pic of him in the star I think with red England shirt. Think it had "England's number 1 pisshead" on the back.

[Trellick]

Anyone else on the new years day special to Derby in 1977?
Game got postponed late on and we got taken back to Euston where loads of us then got a train to watch watford for some reason , via a jewellers with a broom!