Bulletin: Is train really the Sardine Express?
Tuesday 2nd March 2010, 12:20PM GMT.
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Feature writer Ben Bentley decided to find out whether Arriva Trains Wales services from Birmingham and Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury really deserve the tag ‘sardine express’.
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Try again on the 1725 from Wolverhampton on Saturday after a Wolves game and you’ll see the true scale of the problem.
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Try it on a Sunday, when London Midland can’t be bothered to put ANY trains on, when there’s the German Christmas Market and the Clothes Show Live on at the NEC.
That WAS hell. So bad, the train could not pick up anyone after Telford. And it was a stopper…
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same here standing room only in the days of dragonian h@s rules why is it allowed once full
with seated passengers it should move off after all you cannotfill a bus till they are standing on heads remember grayligg? had that train been overfull there would have been mass casualties
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