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Title: Exeter Football & Rugby Matches On The Same Day = 'Chaos' Post by: Bob_Blakey on October 22, 2012, 13:21:16 Apparently there were lots of very unhappy people on Saturday afternoon/evening when the Avocet Line service seemingly failed to cope with a, not unexpected, higher than usual number of customers:
http://www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read/s548.htm?1098,13588102 (http://www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read/s548.htm?1098,13588102) Although FGW may not have covered themselves in glory, some of the comments are pretty ridiculous. Title: Re: Exeter Football & Rugby Matches On The Same Day = 'Chaos' Post by: phile on October 22, 2012, 17:01:32 FGW could only have covered themselves in glory if they had more trains available to them.
Title: Re: Exeter Football & Rugby Matches On The Same Day = 'Chaos' Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on October 22, 2012, 20:55:08 first are normally very very good at providing road transport to assist with volumes for the rugby, i would be surprised if they didn't provide any this time, i wonder how many of these people actually turned up with enough time to purchase tickets, as for the station being closed i wonder how many of the regular users buy tickets online or walk straight upto that self serve machine then are surprised when the ticket office is closed ::)
Title: Re: Exeter Football & Rugby Matches On The Same Day = 'Chaos' Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on October 22, 2012, 20:56:16 also just to add... i recall fgw using a hst for this service once and it being near empty, so cant win i guess
Title: Re: Exeter Football & Rugby Matches On The Same Day = 'Chaos' Post by: vacman on October 26, 2012, 13:35:40 Normally I would agree with the shortage of units argument however, on a saturday evening there are plenty of spare units in the Exeter area!
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