Blackpool Away - No Trains

[Hermit Crab]

Just a heads up to those going by train to Blackpool. RMT have announced strikes with 14 companies taking action on the 20th, 22nd and 29th of July. All cross border companies are involved, LNER, Avanti West Coast and Transpennie Express. There will be little or no services operating on the East and West Coast Mainlines on the 29th.

[HIBS NUTS]

Thanks i was just about to book 👍🏻

[Cod Boy]

Thankfully going by car

[JammyDoidger]

Bloody joke, you'd think these rail workers were hard done by.

[Hermit Crab]

Bloody joke, you'd think these rail workers were hard done by.


Cry more.

[Bridge hibs]

Do you think theres time to extend the trams to Blackpool 🤪

[SteveHFC]

Just a heads up to those going by train to Blackpool. RMT have announced strikes with 14 companies taking action on the 20th, 22nd and 29th of July. All cross border companies are involved, LNER, Avanti West Coast and Transpennie Express. There will be little or no services operating on the East and West Coast Mainlines on the 29th.

Going to Liverpool on the 20th for the weekend. What other travel options are available?

[gbhibby]

Do you think theres time to extend the trams to Blackpool 🤪

Too many white vans in the way.😁

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Going to Liverpool on the 20th for the weekend. What other travel options are available?

National Express coaches or Megabus.

[hibby rae]

National Express coaches or Megabus.

That's a long day. I remember looking at that option for the last Liverpool CL final. Was actually faster to fly to Polamd and switch, which was also far cheaper than the trains. Although I decided that was too much effort 😂

[HH81]

Why do they strike on weekends surely more disruption is caused on week days?

[penihibs]

Just a heads up to those going by train to Blackpool. RMT have announced strikes with 14 companies taking action on the 20th, 22nd and 29th of July. All cross border companies are involved, LNER, Avanti West Coast and Transpennie Express. There will be little or no services operating on the East and West Coast Mainlines on the 29th.
Do you think that will impact our travel plans going down 28th back 31st ?

[Since452]

Bloody joke, you'd think these rail workers were hard done by.

Stamp their feet and disrupt people's lives until they get what they want

[Hibbyradge]

Stamp their feet and disrupt people's lives until they get what they deserve

Ftfy

[Hermit Crab]

Why do they strike on weekends surely more disruption is caused on week days?


2 Saturdays and a Thursday, They've clearly targeted the golf open and the ashes, Blackpool v Hibs will not even have been considered. :greengrin

[HH81]

Is northern trains running if so I'll be ok 😁

[Hermit Crab]

Going to Liverpool on the 20th for the weekend. What other travel options are available?


Bus mate but they'll be getting booked up quickly.

[Hermit Crab]

Do you think that will impact our travel plans going down 28th back 31st ?


No, you should be fine.

[Hibeewilly]

No, you should be fine.
Do you think there's any chance of the dispute being resolved by then or is that unlikely??

[Pretty Boy]

Bloody joke.

These commies should just accept the changes to their contracts of employment, redundancies, 'modernisation' that they feel will compromise passenger and crew safety and below inflation wage rises without question so I can get to the game by train.

[Mick O'Rourke]

Invoke the Wembley spirit for Blackpool.
My Grandson and Great-grandson already booked travel and hotel for full weekend .
Going down to Blackpool on the Friday.

Maggie T in 1981 banned us fae Wembley and there was also bus,train/underground strike.
Maggie banning us was political.\She hated us until the Falklands. our sojers were useful to her then
She knew more than "a few" would get there and had the Met cops oot in force to tame the hordes,along wae big dugs the size of Shetland pony's.

The SFA got an allocation of tickets for public sale ,an amount that Hibs would give to Hearts for a Derby !!
Yet.and i was there,the previous two London fixtures estimated near 70.000 Scots in Wembley Stadium.
Many thousands of Scots residing in England copped the briefs in 1981 ,for all .Sold them on.
She was wrong. Her eddict was futile .

We had been naughty though in the past.
Well ..with some provocation.
Being grossly overcharged in pubs and hot dog/burger/chip vans
Taking the Michael.they were.
They got turned over and pubs got robbed!
No excuse i know. but feelings did run high and the English right wing press and anti Scottish football pages caused more problems with their doom and gloom scaremongering articles on London being demolished
Lock up your daughters circa the Middle Ages
Gedtting called an effing sweaty sock,makes it difficult to turn the other cheek.

The TA didnt even stop for a rest at Derby !! THey went all the way !!
THey descended on London in our tens of thousands ,tickets or not /Loads of pubs closed
Many camped in Trafalger square with cairry oots and bathed and shaved in the fountain.
Granted, we had some real bamsticks who took advantage of off licenses who were short staffed !!

Two modes of transport i recall leaving Edinburgh for Wembley.
One a flat bed coal lorry adapted with sides and soft furnishings on the floor and a hap to keep motel guests dry !
Toilet facilities were en suite mobile over the side pal !
The other transport was an old furniture/house removal van outlayed with matresses ,sleeping bags ,ghetto blaster, a few chairs tied to the sides and make shift bar !
Farting was taboo.resulting in removal of some beer vouchers until a show of remorse and "i wont do it again! promise.


I left Edinburgh on my own .early on the Friday morning.
Got a local bus a bit of a way down the A1 and then got the thumb oot.��
Eventually got to the Cannon/ O'Rourke household,our 1st Cousins place in Kingwood Road,Fulham.
and also over a way in Putney> Loooong day!
Dry as a stick ,feet swollen, knackered, but i made it.
Went to the Cottage pub near Fulham FC for a livener or 4 and i sneaked into Wembley the next day
Again ! Great seats !!

I jumped a train at Kings Cross on the monday to get home/
Guards never cracked a light . They didnt care .They just wanted us celtic hordes oot of London
The weekend was over and we beat them on all fronts !!


Anyway let this article (among other stories) tell the run up to all this and the game.
YE CANNAE BAR US FAE WEMBLEY !!


https://norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2021/06/18/the-beebs-top-pundit-scottish-pens-invaders-futile-bans-flower-of-scotland/

[MWHIBBIES]

Bloody joke, you'd think these rail workers were hard done by.

They're spot on. Always push for better conditions and pay. Hope they win big.

[Bob1875]

Up the RMT ✊🏼

[marinello59]

They're spot on. Always push for better conditions and pay. Hope they win big.

:agree:

[Bristolhibby]

Unity is strength.

I’ll be driving from Wiltshire. Staying over, back down the next day.

J

[JamesHFC]

Glad that our first Europe game is on the 27th. Down to Blackpool on the Friday & back on the Monday. Going to be an expensive month.

[Mick O'Rourke]

Up the RMT ✊🏼



solidarity 👍 🤜 🚉

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

That's a long day. I remember looking at that option for the last Liverpool CL final. Was actually faster to fly to Polamd and switch, which was also far cheaper than the trains. Although I decided that was too much effort 😂

Aye, it's about the only other option for a day trip though. Never went as far as checking times.

[BobMilne]

Stamp their feet and disrupt people's lives until they get what they want


Solidarity

[BoltonHibee]

If you wanted a cheap stop over. The Norbreck Castle hotel. It’s around £30 a night including breakfast. Absolute ****hole but cheap.


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[blackpoolhibs]

If you wanted a cheap stop over. The Norbreck Castle hotel. It’s around £30 a night including breakfast. Absolute ****hole but cheap.


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To be fair, the crusty sheets appeared after you slept there.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

If you wanted a cheap stop over. The Norbreck Castle hotel. It’s around £30 a night including breakfast. Absolute ****hole but cheap.


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Interesting reviews on Trip Advisor! 😉

[Kojock]

To be fair, the crusty sheets appeared after you slept there.

Crusty sheets? It was like trying to sleep between two giant Ryvita Crackerbreads 😂

[Jones28]

Stamp their feet and disrupt people's lives until they get what they want

Piss poor attitude.

[Scouse Hibee]

Going to Liverpool on the 20th for the weekend. What other travel options are available?

I would drive.

[Stubbsy90+2]

Bloody joke.

These commies should just accept the changes to their contracts of employment, redundancies, 'modernisation' that they feel will compromise passenger and crew safety and below inflation wage rises without question so I can get to the game by train.

:agree:

Always find it quite incredible that people think it’s the workers doing something wrong here.

Pretty much the whole bloody country needs to grow a backbone and strike.

[SteveHFC]

National Express coaches or Megabus.

National Express booked. Going to be a long day. :greengrin

[Scouse Hibee]

National Express booked. Going to be a long day. :greengrin

It certainly is, do you not fancy the drive?

[SteveHFC]

It certainly is, do you not fancy the drive?

5 of us going down mate and none of us drive. So bus only option. :greengrin

[Scouse Hibee]

5 of us going down mate and none of us drive. So bus only option. :greengrin

👍 Good luck 😀

[penihibs]

No, you should be fine.

Thanks buddy, hopefully.

[Bristolhibby]

:agree:

Always find it quite incredible that people think it’s the workers doing something wrong here.

Pretty much the whole bloody country needs to grow a backbone and strike.

Anyone notice in the media disputes are always presented as "Bosses offered workers 3% but unions demanded they be paid more", never "Workers offered to work for 6% but bosses demanded they work for less".

J

[wazoo1875]

Anyone notice in the media disputes are always presented as "Bosses offered workers 3% but unions demanded they be paid more", never "Workers offered to work for 6% but bosses demanded they work for less".

J

Absolutely the case, I’ve been through it myself recently. Thankfully it never got to a strike but we had voted unanimously to go on one. This is adversely affecting me as I’d not long shelled out 95 quid for a return train ticket. 8 of us going down, I’ll drive now and one other will need to do the same. I’d back the workers 100% all the way though. Hopefully be a good weekend anyway.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

National Express booked. Going to be a long day. :greengrin

Hopefully the WiFi will work. 😊

[007]

Could organise a bus and have a Jolly Boys' Outing.

https://i.ibb.co/NtS6sCx/30775905611-5df9ca715a-c.jpg (https://ibb.co/n6Csbmr)

[.Sean.]

I seen something saying that the trains might be fine as it’s not the drivers that are striking or something along those lines? :confused:

[DaveF]

I seen something saying that the trains might be fine as it’s not the drivers that are striking or something along those lines? :confused:

If it's hermit posting the original train info you can be certain all services will be affected, given he works on the railway.

[Hermit Crab]

I seen something saying that the trains might be fine as it’s not the drivers that are striking or something along those lines? :confused:


Guards, station dispatch staff, ticket office staff will all take industrial action on these dates so there will be a very limited service, probably between the hours of 7am-5pm and even then these train can be amended or cancelled at very short notice with trains terminating short of their destination etc, just depends on how many 'managers' they can find to break the strike. My advice is either don't travel or go down the night before.

[.Sean.]

Guards, station dispatch staff, ticket office staff will all take industrial action on these dates so there will be a very limited service, probably between the hours of 7am-5pm and even then these train can be amended or cancelled at very short notice with trains terminating short of their destination etc, just depends on how many 'managers' they can find to break the strike. My advice is either don't travel or go down the night before.
So I take it there’s no danger normal services will be running so I’m best to try and get a refund on the train tickets and book on a supporters bus?

[Hermit Crab]

So I take it there’s no danger normal services will be running so I’m best to try and get a refund on the train tickets and book on a supporters bus?


It definitely won't be a normal train service, as for a supporters bus I'll leave that up to you to decide.

[Bishop Hibee]

Is it time for the Golden Eagle to soar once more? 🚐

[Hermit Crab]

Is it time for the Golden Eagle to soar once more? 🚐


You'd rather not go than go on one of those scrappers they call buses.

[Hibiza]

Invoke the Wembley spirit for Blackpool.
My Grandson and Great-grandson already booked travel and hotel for full weekend .
Going down to Blackpool on the Friday.

Maggie T in 1981 banned us fae Wembley and there was also bus,train/underground strike.
Maggie banning us was political.\She hated us until the Falklands. our sojers were useful to her then
She knew more than "a few" would get there and had the Met cops oot in force to tame the hordes,along wae big dugs the size of Shetland pony's.

The SFA got an allocation of tickets for public sale ,an amount that Hibs would give to Hearts for a Derby !!
Yet.and i was there,the previous two London fixtures estimated near 70.000 Scots in Wembley Stadium.
Many thousands of Scots residing in England copped the briefs in 1981 ,for all .Sold them on.
She was wrong. Her eddict was futile .

We had been naughty though in the past.
Well ..with some provocation.
Being grossly overcharged in pubs and hot dog/burger/chip vans
Taking the Michael.they were.
They got turned over and pubs got robbed!
No excuse i know. but feelings did run high and the English right wing press and anti Scottish football pages caused more problems with their doom and gloom scaremongering articles on London being demolished
Lock up your daughters circa the Middle Ages
Gedtting called an effing sweaty sock,makes it difficult to turn the other cheek.

The TA didnt even stop for a rest at Derby !! THey went all the way !!
THey descended on London in our tens of thousands ,tickets or not /Loads of pubs closed
Many camped in Trafalger square with cairry oots and bathed and shaved in the fountain.
Granted, we had some real bamsticks who took advantage of off licenses who were short staffed !!

Two modes of transport i recall leaving Edinburgh for Wembley.
One a flat bed coal lorry adapted with sides and soft furnishings on the floor and a hap to keep motel guests dry !
Toilet facilities were en suite mobile over the side pal !
The other transport was an old furniture/house removal van outlayed with matresses ,sleeping bags ,ghetto blaster, a few chairs tied to the sides and make shift bar !
Farting was taboo.resulting in removal of some beer vouchers until a show of remorse and "i wont do it again! promise.


I left Edinburgh on my own .early on the Friday morning.
Got a local bus a bit of a way down the A1 and then got the thumb oot.��
Eventually got to the Cannon/ O'Rourke household,our 1st Cousins place in Kingwood Road,Fulham.
and also over a way in Putney> Loooong day!
Dry as a stick ,feet swollen, knackered, but i made it.
Went to the Cottage pub near Fulham FC for a livener or 4 and i sneaked into Wembley the next day
Again ! Great seats !!

I jumped a train at Kings Cross on the monday to get home/
Guards never cracked a light . They didnt care .They just wanted us celtic hordes oot of London
The weekend was over and we beat them on all fronts !!


Anyway let this article (among other stories) tell the run up to all this and the game.
YE CANNAE BAR US FAE WEMBLEY !!


https://norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2021/06/18/the-beebs-top-pundit-scottish-pens-invaders-futile-bans-flower-of-scotland/

Brill .

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Is it time for the Golden Eagle to soar once more? 🚐

I've no idea what this relates to. 🤔

[hibby rae]

Aye, it's about the only other option for a day trip though. Never went as far as checking times.

Iirc the route I saw starts/ends in Liverpool then crosses England to hit the east coast before heading north. Was like an 8 hour journey or something

[Carheenlea]

The Tartan Army of the 70’s & 80’s sounds more akin to the modern day Old Firm wreaking havoc and leaving a trail of mess and destruction behind them.

Different times perhaps. I recall listening to Off the Ball on the way back from Hampden in the wake of the ‘16 Cup win where condemnation of the pitch invasion was being rained on us from all corners. Stuart Cosgrove then defended us by highlighting the sheer hypocrisy of guys like Chick Young who were sticking the boot in big time and calling us a disgrace, while previously boasting about invading the pitch at Wembley in ‘77 and proclaiming the scenes as some sort of pinnacle of Scottish national pride. You can’t have it both ways!

[Mick O'Rourke]

[QUOTE=Carheenlea;7380161]The Tartan Army of the 70’s & 80’s sounds more akin to the modern day Old Firm wreaking havoc and leaving a trail of mess and destruction behind them.

Different times perhaps. I recall listening to Off the Ball on the way back from Hampden in the wake of the ‘16 Cup win where condemnation of the pitch invasion was being rained on us from all corners. Stuart Cosgrove then defended us by highlighting the sheer hypocrisy of guys like Chick Young who were sticking the boot in big time and calling us a disgrace, while previously boasting about invading the pitch at Wembley in ‘77 and proclaiming the scenes as some sort of pinnacle of Scottish national pride. You can’t have it both ways![/QUO
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Well Carheenlea
The Old Firm(0r oldco) back in the 70s /80s was far worse than you see now./
Apart from the zombies of the new club destroying and defacating on George Square not so long ago, fighting wae the polis,anaw.
I was in Newcastle a few weeks after the orange /blue hordes destroyed their city centre in 1969.
Glaziers were still fitting pubs,shop,and office windaes fur weeks/
For some time,it was very risky for young innocent Scots to go to Newcastle toon for a night oot,due to those imbeciles trashing the place.

No
The London trouble was more being ripped off economically,than fletching the superior orange tribe,we are the people,muscles
Get oot oor way or else!

Up West /Soho,Scots fans.many first timers, got taken to the cleaners for drink and food ,also getting conned in boozers for drinks they hadn't ordered and threatened with violence by beefy bouncers !
Bar in Shaftsbury Ave once got turned over after bouncers walloped a couple of guys .This was lunchtime !!
i could go on.
My Cab driving London cousins made sure i went to a Scot friendly boozer down their way.
That was the 70s, i attended every wembley from 69 to 81.
Then the organised guys moved in. Casuals from clubs throughout the UK would meet up.
Me? I would just sit by the Thames in some nice Fulham and other waterfront boozers and let them get on with it !!
Happy Days at Wembeley !
!:singing: Ye kin stick yer wembley tickets up yer ar :singing:se !

And i lift my glass to the Late Great Gordon McQueen,who gave us all a great moment to aye remember.

[O'Rourke3]

Is it time for the Golden Eagle to soar once more? [emoji604]It would probablt take us to Hampden.

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