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Sheffield Wednesday fans can take the train from Sheffield straight to Cardiff for this Sunday’s play off final at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium thanks to Central Trains.

Central Trains will provide a special 500 seat train that departs from Sheffield at 09.40 hours; it runs non-stop to Cardiff arriving at 12.51 hours. The train returns from Cardiff at 18.05 hours arriving back in Sheffield at 21.44 hours.

Tickets for the special train will go on sale at Sheffield station from 10.00 hours on Saturday 28th May. Tickets can only be bought in person at Sheffield Station and will be sold on a first come first served basis (to a maximum of 10 per person). The return fare will be £55 for adults and £27.50 for children.

Fans should note that; only holders of the special tickets will be allowed to board the train. Alcoholic drinks will not be allowed on board.

Lets hope it's more organised than the cup final.

I know some fans who travelled down to the FA cup final last week. On the way back they were due to change at Birmingham New Street and connect with a train there. Their train was delayed by a few minutes and some plonker decided to let the train that they were supposed to connect with at Birmingham go. They had to wait over 3 hours for the next train.

The excuse they were given is that the other trains was operated by another rail company and it would have costed something like £150 a minute to hold the train up.

Normal scheduled trains will leave on time regardless of connections. If the train were to wait it would inconvenience the passengers allready on who would then become late, and the train would get later and later as it would miss it's path, especially at junctions. The operator can also get fined for deliberately delaying trains.

However the football special is a direct non-stop train exclusively for Sheffield Wednesday fans going to Cardiff, so there is no connections to miss!

Originally posted by Andy C
FROM CENTRAL TRAINS WEBSITE

Central Trains will provide a special 500 seat train that departs from Sheffield. The return fare will be £55 for adults and £27.50 for children.
Alcoholic drinks will not be allowed on board.

Anyone remember the "Inter city Owl" for Wednesday ite's?
I went return to Exeter for £6, Took beer on the train and got absolutly ratted.
Never saw a kick off the match!.

Good old days :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Andy C
Normal scheduled trains will leave on time regardless of connections. If the train were to wait it would inconvenience the passengers allready on who would then become late, and the train would get later and later as it would miss it's path, especially at junctions. The operator can also get fined for deliberately delaying trains.



Well, they were told that the train could have been held up but it was not cost effective on that occasion due to it been another train company. The train company also refused to put taxis on so this meant that the football fans got home almost 4 hours later than they should have and at 3:45am.

As I said, the football specials were direct and non-stop, so that problem wouldn't, and didn't, occur.