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Post by Budleigh on Jan 3, 2010 22:58:50 GMT
This is a fun bit of memorabilia that I recently acquired. As many of you will see advertised in the older programmes, British Railways used to run excursions for the bigger games played in the Fifties and Sixties. This is a small poster advertising the 'special' train running up from Saltash, via Plymouth, for our famous fourth round FA Cup game against Huddersfield in January 1955 and which many of the record crowd of 21,908 would've used to see us go down 1-0. Imagine how many Cornish and Plymouth based football supporters would make that journey for a game these days! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2010 0:24:17 GMT
Imagine how many Cornish and Plymouth based football supporters would make that journey for a game these days! I guess we're talking about the "supporter of football" in the broadest sense here rather than those displaying any particular club loyalty. In those virtually pre-football on TV days - the cup final was shown but few people had "receivers" anyway - the only way of seeing top players would have been to take the extremely rare opportunity of making it along to a FA Cup tie within relatively easy travelling distance. Nor was there a game for Argyle that day who hadn't yet reached the promised land of the top flight (what do you mean? they still haven't to this day?). Indeed, three weeks earlier - on the day we played at Leeds - Argyle played Newcastle in the 3rd round in front of nearly 30,000. You can bet that large numbers would have made the journey from South Devon for that one as well. |
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Post by Budleigh on Jan 4, 2010 9:25:18 GMT
Exactly the point Jon... Even in my days as a football-following youngster if there was an important game on locally, or involving our local teams, I'd want to be there. The Argyle FA Cup semi-final, Exeter City's games against Newcastle & Liverpool amongst others, but today there is no need to travel 'further afield' from your own team to watch other football. It's there on a plate via numerous TV channels. I'm sure that back in the late seventies/early eighties had there been no United game last Saturday I would've been tempted with the Plymouth v Newcastle cup-tie as I'm sure many other South Devon football supporters would've.
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Post by Dave on Jan 4, 2010 17:14:22 GMT
A wonderful poster Leigh and I bet you have many more treasures you will share with us in the future. Dean Edwards has some great old programmes and other bits and pieces of interest to us all and he will bring them down with him and entrust them with me, so I can put them up on the forum.
This poster reminds us of the time when people had to go to games by train or bus, we have talked before about the football specials that Devon General used to run. Was it three from Newton Abbot, I think there were buses from Brixham. Paignton and maybe even Teignmouth.
If you had a family car when I was a kid, then you were indeed lucky and we had one and there were only a few other families in the street I lived that had one. A wonderful Austin A50 the bigger brother to the A35, but like most cars in those days, if suffered from an over heating radiator. I bet many of us older members have had to knock on someone’s door asking for some water to put in the car radiator
Our Barton still goes to all games by train, I wonder how many years he has been doing that and if he knows just how many train trips to games he has made. I bet he could start a great thread with adventures he has had on trains.
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Post by chelstongull on Jan 4, 2010 17:57:33 GMT
Our Barton still goes to all games by train, I wonder how many years he has been doing that and if he knows just how many train trips to games he has made. I bet he could start a great thread with adventures he has had on trains.Looking forward to that one. As the expected take up for my Train and Breakfast trip, perhaps we should all go to an away match by train? Taking in a breakfast somewhere on our trip - along the lines of the photo earlier today, still has be dribbling. |
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Post by jmgull on Jan 4, 2010 18:04:48 GMT
Our Barton still goes to all games by train, I wonder how many years he has been doing that and if he knows just how many train trips to games he has made. I bet he could start a great thread with adventures he has had on trains.Looking forward to that one. As the expected take up for my Train and Breakfast trip, perhaps we should all go to an away match by train? Taking in a breakfast somewhere on our trip - along the lines of the photo earlier today, still has be dribbling. Put me down for that  Do Trains still serve a proper breakfast? |
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Post by Dave on Jan 4, 2010 18:31:18 GMT
I think I will have to arrange the TFF train day out Phil has asked for before, his plan was to just go to Totnes and have a walk, then a few pints.
But as Barton and I know you get a great breakfast in the Signal box cafe on Totnes station, maybe we could do an early morning train ride, have breakfast, then a walk, then a few pints and then back home on the train.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2010 20:10:24 GMT
Our Barton still goes to all games by train, I wonder how many years he has been doing that and if he knows just how many train trips to games he has made. I bet he could start a great thread with adventures he has had on trains.Looking forward to that one. As the expected take up for my Train and Breakfast trip, perhaps we should all go to an away match by train? Taking in a breakfast somewhere on our trip - along the lines of the photo earlier today, still has be dribbling. How about Hereford? One season there was a "bus replacement" between Hereford and Abergavenny which - after the game - started with us having to push-start a very ancient vehicle (driven by a driver who looked in even worse shape). Then, as we arrived at Abergavenny, it was clear the connecting train had left and that our vehicle (and the driver) wasn't going to make it much further. Another bus was found to take us to Newport by which time those who were travelling as far as South Devon were worrying about getting home that evening. To wit a fleet of taxis to take us home and I remember getting out at Taunton with around £88 on the meter - and this was before Hereford dropped out of the league in 1997. Hereford to Taunton (and Paignton for some) without setting foot on a train....not bad, eh? |
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