I dont think thats true with a game attendance of 75k, Im sure the FA cup or Charity Shield would have had more visitors through Euston so Im more than convinced they are used to that amount of footfall. I travelled this year from Wembley Central as opposed to previously doing Wembley park. I thought the staff at Euston and Wembley Central done fantastic job even having staff stood in Wembley High St? with tannoy and placards diverting Euston passengers down a side street in the pouring down rain.

On the otherhand your dealings up north at crewe etc with busses and replacements isnt good and would have hated it to be me, Sorry to hear your day started bad. Im glad for you all the middle bit went to plan

No. That's what they're called.

Thing is our train was NEVER destined for Euston its was going direct to Wembley Central. So instead of having 2 trains from Crewe with just a few normal passengers on they had 2 sardine canned trains with hundred upon hundreds of extra fans on.

How would you know??





you spend a lot of time on the wigan board dont you!?!

ive already sussed you Jonny re what i said to your irish mate

According to tonight's WEP few problems going down, no problems on the return train. Not what I heard

Wins first prize for "Understatement of the year 2011"

Bank Holiday w/ends and train travel don't mix, booked on a well known local coach firm, organiser of which has insomnia when tickets to Challenge Cup Final go on sale, smooth journey going down, sevices at Warwick rammed but that's to be expected, getting off the coach park at Wembley was a bit like getting off the car park as Castleford but with coaches instead of cars ! Smooth journey home, glad I didn't have to drive.
A long but very satisfactory day.

An investigation into this is underway and I expect to hear back from the train company sometime tomorrow and we will then contact all fans who had booked the train to give a full explanation etc. In no way do Wigan Warriors want fans to suffer and we will be taking all possible action with the charter company who were paid to provide the service well before the event.

We will contact you again soon with information and please accept our apologies for all the issues of Saturday.

Mr G Warburton

Did you all get there though?

reporter must be guessing then.

i was on the platform waiting for a different charter train , when the announcement came over the tannoy, advising passengers from the Warriors charter train to board the next train and change at crewe for Euston.
Fans who had paid 50-75 quid for seats were stood like sardines all the way to London, via a replacement bus from warrington to crewe i believe.
The journey from Euston to wembley was describes as "the journey from hell" by people who had travelled that way.

i know all this from chatting to people on Wembley Central concourse as both sets waited for their return charter, which they had been assured was running as normal on the return journey.

30 minutes later, they were ushered to the undergrond platform......guess what?
contrary to the papers report, the train HAD been cancelled.

Fans had a great day ruined......and a full return of money would be in order, not from the club, but from the firm they chartered off.

Who knows? Some of the fans were clearly distressed as the lack of infomation from both stewards and station staff was staggering.

Here's what really gets my goat though..............

A DB Schenker spokesman said: “The service was disrupted [size=150two hours before departure [/sizedue to an operational incident.

Yep so at approx 5.30am they knew there was a problem yet it was only announced at 8am (the train was due to leave Wigan at 7.38am!) that the train had been cancelled.

Although I was on the Mayfair train I was still saddened & disgusted at the treatment of my fellow fans on the so-called "official" charter train.

DB Schenker is a freight company & are only responsible for their locomotive & it's driver, the rest is up to the charter company. I don't know which charter company the club used as their are several companies that can provide the coaching stock & other staff required for a charter train. Mayfair used Rail-Blue Charters who in turn also used DB Schenker for the locomotive & driver.

its shocking that nobody has asked how the poor guard is . was he drunk

No, he was a Warrington fan so obviously had NOTHING to celebrate

Geoff Warburton has been a tremendous help to us over the years. Always very kind, and can't do enough for fans who need it.
I'm not sure if it his responsibility to be on call for this kind of event, perhaps someone from the club should have been available, but from my experience Geoff will be mortified that people have been let down.

Nope I got an armed escort onto a train once

Good news for anyone that was caught up in the train debacle. Letters and cheques are to be posted out within the next 3-4 days. Dont know how much theyre for though.

did any one get a refund yet?

3-4 days from Monday!!!!!

Correction a nice little cheque for 60% of the train cost just popped through the letter box. Once again well done Wigan RLFC for looking after the fans!!!

perhaps i knew something you didn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a wise man once said to me

"What dust want? A big f@cking orange?"

a wiser man said "aye but peel it for me first pie man"

Ney he didn't.

yes i did!