Peterborough By Train.

[TIL 1010 5,234]

It looks like East Midlands Trains have cottoned on that there will be problems with large numbers of fans wishing to travel by train from Norwich to Peterborough to the cup game on 5th January. They have promised to have extra carriages for the scheduled services and a decision will be made later this week whether to lay on an extra service.

When i went to the box office and bought match tickets on the day of the sell out and followed it with a visit to Thorpe Station to buy train tickets the staff there had no idea that the match was even taking place and were wondering why there was suddenly such a high demand for this particular service.Well ten days later the penny appears to have dropped.

[Matt Juler 208]

[quote user="TIL 1010"]

It looks like East Midlands Trains have cottoned on that there will be problems with large numbers of fans wishing to travel by train from Norwich to Peterborough to the cup game on 5th January. They have promised to have extra carriages for the scheduled services and a decision will be made later this week whether to lay on an extra service.

When i went to the box office and bought match tickets on the day of the sell out and followed it with a visit to Thorpe Station to buy train tickets the staff there had no idea that the match was even taking place and were wondering why there was suddenly such a high demand for this particular service.Well ten days later the penny appears to have dropped.

[/quote]I''ve been in touch with both EMT and Greater Anglia through contacts that I have from organising the away travel for the Capital Canaries.  EMT are trying to do what they can, people may have noticed they now have a 4 car unit on the 17:54 when City are at home on a Saturday, so they are aware of the football.

[Tim Allman 1]

http://twitter.com/EMTrains/status/277101425849413632

 

I did see this conversation on twitter so EMT will have been aware of this for quite some time.

[Howson is now! 0]

I emailed EMT the day of the draw and they replied the next day saying they were already looking into getting extra carriages put on so they knew from at least the day after draw that it was something they needed to address and were already.

[TIL 1010 5,234]

The staff at Thorpe Station had no idea and where asking why so many people were purchasing tickets for Peterborough on 5th.It has taken EMT ten days to go public and make a press statement in tonights Evening News about plans which have yet to be finalised but hey ho they are on the case. [Y]

[......and Smith must score. 1,587]

[quote user="TIL 1010"]The staff at Thorpe Station had no idea and where asking why so many people were purchasing tickets for Peterborough on 5th.It has taken EMT ten days to go public and make a press statement in tonights Evening News about plans which have yet to be finalised but hey ho they are on the case. [Y][/quote]

Well we are talking about the railway here Tilly so should be no great surprise to find that they don''t know what''s going on.Don''t hold your breath about extra carriages as they often fail to materialise ( in which case you will need to hold your breath as you''ll all be shoe-horned in with serious risk of losing a limb if you''re unlucky enough to have left anything dangling out of the window )Perhaps they''ll stretch to an extra train just this once ?

[Miss Jane Marple 0]

I recommend Right Guard just in case, my dears.