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homeless kid said:
It's a step in the right direction like. But our branch had a few questions about it that were unclear in the initial communication like - does it also apply for people with railcards, what happens if the game is moved to a date you can't get to - can you just get your money back? Stuff like that.

Good to see they're actually trying to help us out though as a lot of train companies just don't want to know about footy fans (probably thanks to our fore-fathers smashing their trains up in the 80s) and would rather not have them onboard.
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I asked about railcards and they said you can't have two discounts on the go at the same time. We have a Friends and Family railcard, so would be able to use that (I believe). People travelling on their own without a railcard would get a 10% discount, groups of three or more would get a 25% discount. If you can't go to the arranged date you would not be able to get a refund as they would then need to be able to sell those tickets to someone else. I can completely see their point on this.

BTP were also at the meeting and they guy said it was his intention that in the future there would be no need for dry trains. It makes sense that if most people have put their details into the Virgin website, they'd need to curb their behaviour, although they stressed that the police would not have access to any information on the Virgin website.
 
Legend said:
Is that actually happening? I'll be taking the train to aways more often if that is the case...
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Definitely happening mate. Virgin were really positive as were BTP. I went along thinking it was going to be all flannel, with lots of restrictions and not something we would use, but they genuinely want to make a good go of this and I think it would definitely encourage people to make more use of the trains.

It ONLY applies to Virgin East Coast trains, and I believe only for London games (although people living in London will be able to use it for home games). They may expand the destinations in the future, so say if you were going to Manchester and you used a Virgin train to York, you could take advantage of the initiative for that part of the journey. Think that's a little way off yet though.

WackyJackyO said:
I heard that discount is additional to any already in place, eg Senior Citizens' railcard. I hope that's true.
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Don't think so mate. I asked specifically about our Friends and Family railcard and he said we couldn't get the 25% in addition to our 1/3 off.

Hopefully there's another meeting before it gets rolled out so we know exactly how it will work.
 
marsey said:
I asked about railcards and they said you can't have two discounts on the go at the same time. We have a Friends and Family railcard, so would be able to use that (I believe). People travelling on their own without a railcard would get a 10% discount, groups of three or more would get a 25% discount. If you can't go to the arranged date you would not be able to get a refund as they would then need to be able to sell those tickets to someone else. I can completely see their point on this.

BTP were also at the meeting and they guy said it was his intention that in the future there would be no need for dry trains. It makes sense that if most people have put their details into the Virgin website, they'd need to curb their behaviour, although they stressed that the police would not have access to any information on the Virgin website.
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I've got a railcard anyway so won't be using this and although it's a good idea, the bit about not being able to make the re-arranged date = no refunds will put a lot of our branch members off using it. If the game is moved to Monday night or even Friday night then it makes it a non-starter for most of us.
 
QUOTE="Eddie Hitler, post: 20780194, member: 24296"]Berra be moved to the Sunday. I'm on days On the Saturday and cant get a bastard holiday[/QUOTE]
Im on nights that weekend! Tried to book it off and can't as It's fully booked up :evil: i cant even go sick. Pissed off is an understatement
 
Well I've managed to bloody book a weekend away so Monday night for me.
 
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