Any Reds living on t'other side of t'Pennines?

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  1. gaz

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    How do you get to matches? Has anyone found a cheap route using trains?
    I've recently moved to Chorley & it's £33 return!
     
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    I used to go Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield, Sheffield to Barnsley. Not sure how much it is now but it takes about 1 hour 20 minutes.

    Whichever way you go, you'll have to go through either Sheffield, Huddersfield or Leeds. It's not the easiest journey by train.

    Drive now though.
     
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    Bored in my lunchbreak so had a look - the £33 is via Manc P and Sheffied you can get it down to £30 going via Manc V and Huddersfield 2 and a half hours each way either route The London Tykes (whats left of them) can get there quicker and for similar money! - think a car looks a better option at least an hour quicker each way and the cost will be similar
     
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    I did the return journey on £17 of diesel on Sunday, thing is I like to have a drink with the lads, so driving kind of gets in the way of that!
     
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    Buy your train tickets in advance. 11:20 and 12:20 train from Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield are a fiver on 20th December for Orient game. Return train to Manchester is a fiver on 19:10 or 20:10. Standard return to Barnsley from Sheffield is £5.10. Standard return from Chorley to Piccadilly is £8.70. £23.80 for the lot.

    It'll be the same for every game. All done on Red spotted Hanky.

    Get a lift to and from Manchester from Chorley and it's £15.10.
     
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    Cheaper to go to Huddersfield for me than Sheffield
     
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    I live closer to Euxton train station than I do Chorley, trains go to Liverpool from Euxton so that could be an option
     
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    Do we allow people from Lancashire into Oakwell...
     
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    Haha! I'm not from Lancashire, just lived here since end of August!
     
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    Its like Ebola its catching...
     
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