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  • Thread starter clint van damme
  • Start date Sep 15, 2025
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clint van damme

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #1
Upon Avon that is, not East London hell hole.
Best was to get from Stratford to the CBS and back on public transport please?
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #2
Train to Leamington then another one to the arena. Takes about an hour and a half.
 

Grendel

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #3
What a way to say you have moved to Stratford-Upon-Avon - like your style
 
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clint van damme

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #4
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Train to Leamington then another one to the arena. Takes about an hour and a half.
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And hour and a half, fuck me. Its only down the road.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #5
Grendel said:
What a way to say you have moved to Stratford-Upon-Avon - like your style
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Fortunately, for the good folk of Stratford, I haven't.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #6
clint van damme said:
And hour and a half, fuck me. Its only down the road.
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I’m really flattered by the offer Clint but please keep your thoughts to yourself.
 
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Ccfc_Addy

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #7
clint van damme said:
Upon Avon that is, not East London hell hole.
Best was to get from Stratford to the CBS and back on public transport please?
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There's a direct bus from SOA to the centre of Coventry, from where you could walk to the station and get the club shuttle bus. It would definitely take longer than the train but possibly less stressful than attempting to cram yourself onto the arena train
 
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SBT

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #8
You might actually be quicker getting public transport from Stratford in east London.
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #9
clint van damme said:
And hour and a half, fuck me. Its only down the road.
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Because of the near 40 minutes wait in Leamington.

It only takes 20 minutes from Leamington to get to the turnstiles.
 
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EalingSB

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #10
The train to the stadium is always packed leaving Cov station, to the point where not everyone can get on - this train comes from Leamington so should get on OK there. I've always got on it on the way back but it is also packed and so infrequent that if you miss it - a la Ed Balls - it's a right pain.
 
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mmttww

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #11
Might be quicker to get a bus, which is mental. X18 takes about an 1hr 20 mins. Scenic route, innit!
 
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rob9872

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #12
Grendel said:
What a way to say you have moved to Stratford-Upon-Avon - like your style
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Alas, poor Clint, I knew him Horratio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
 
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clint van damme

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #13
rob9872 said:
Alas, poor Clint, I knew him Horratio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
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Wondered what you were on a out then, then remembered who Stratfords most famous son after Adge was
 
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Viktor17

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #14
clint van damme said:
Upon Avon that is, not East London hell hole.
Best was to get from Stratford to the CBS and back on public transport please?
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Sadly no real option as fellow cv37! As above train is pain in arse and long!

I just drive, appreciate not everyone can.
 

rob9872

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #15
Viktor17 said:
Sadly no real option as fellow cv37! As above train is pain in arse and long!

I just drive, appreciate not everyone can.
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I read that as "I can pick you up Clint if you bung me a fiver for petrol"
 
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Evo1883

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #16
clint van damme said:
Upon Avon that is, not East London hell hole.
Best was to get from Stratford to the CBS and back on public transport please?
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if you live in Stratford surely you own a helicopter ?
 
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TomRad85

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #17
Evo1883 said:
if you live in Stratford surely you own a helicopter ?
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I did hear whispers that he has a small chopper.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #18
Evo1883 said:
if you live in Stratford surely you own a helicopter ?
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TomRad85 said:
I did hear whispers that he has a small chopper.
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Hale and Pace have entered the chat
 
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mmttww

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #19
Evo1883 said:
if you live in Stratford surely you own a helicopter ?
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TomRad85 said:
I did hear whispers that he has a small chopper.
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I said the internet was a mistake. I was wrong.
 
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torchomatic

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #20
X18 goes all the way to Stratford from the Transport museum.
 
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wingy

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #21
clint van damme said:
Upon Avon that is, not East London hell hole.
Best was to get from Stratford to the CBS and back on public transport please?
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Broken down?
 

clint van damme

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #22
wingy said:
Broken down?
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Happens regularly when I read this forum
 
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blunted

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #23
clint van damme said:
Upon Avon that is, not East London hell hole.
Best was to get from Stratford to the CBS and back on public transport please?
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Stratford London is on the up. V&A East just opened and Cross Rail has upped it's transport links. All the artists priced out of Hoxton and Shoreditch have moved east, quite a few to Stratford. No longer cheap housing but you get a garden and parking.
 

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #24
EalingSB said:
The train to the stadium is always packed leaving Cov station, to the point where not everyone can get on - this train comes from Leamington so should get on OK there. I've always got on it on the way back but it is also packed and so infrequent that if you miss it - a la Ed Balls - it's a right pain.
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Is it too much to ask to have an extra carriage on the Arena train.
 
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rob9872

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #25
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT said:
Is it too much to ask to have an extra carriage on the Arena train.
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I think the platform is part of the issue for safety, although not beyond the realms of man to sort that. Could also put a screen on that opens st the doors like on the underground if numbers on there are also a concern.
 
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oscillatewildly

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  • Sep 15, 2025
  • #26
rob9872 said:
I read that as "I can pick you up Clint if you bung me a fiver for petrol"
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All a bard!
 
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rob9872

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  • Sep 16, 2025
  • #27
oscillatewildly said:
All a bard!
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Shakespeare walks into the pub and tries to order 2 pints of mead. The barman says 'Get out, you're bard'
 
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Brylowes

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  • Sep 16, 2025
  • #28
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Train to Leamington then another one to the arena. Takes about an hour and a half.
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Properly sums up the state of British railways that, an hour and a half to do what, 20 miles.
clint van damme said:
Upon Avon that is, not East London hell hole.
Best was to get from Stratford to the CBS and back on public transport please?
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Could probably get from Stratford, East London quicker.
 
Last edited: Sep 16, 2025
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SkyBluePower

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  • Sep 16, 2025
  • #29
Be Patient for the World Is Broad and Wide ( and change at Leamington)
 
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oscillatewildly

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  • Sep 16, 2025
  • #30
All the world's a Stagecoach, clint. Just over an hour from Mcdonalds Stratford by the look of it.
 
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Mcbean

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  • Sep 16, 2025
  • #31
Sadly although Stratford is a tourist hot spot it’s an absolute fucker to get to ! However you try and if it’s in your way to get somewhere the 16th century bridge often crossed by dick Turpin is still
There holding up the traffic !
 
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GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee

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  • Sep 16, 2025
  • #32
clint van damme said:
And hour and a half, fuck me. Its only down the road.
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It’s absolutely horrendous. 90 minutes is generous too as most don’t align with leamington train. You can cycle there quicker most the time
 
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Kneeza

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  • Sep 16, 2025
  • #33
Just cadge a lift with Doug.
 
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Sep 16, 2025
  • #34
rob9872 said:
I think the platform is part of the issue for safety, although not beyond the realms of man to sort that. Could also put a screen on that opens st the doors like on the underground if numbers on there are also a concern.
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The smallest of the platforms is still big enough to accommodate three carriages.
 

Adge

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  • Sep 17, 2025
  • #35
X18 but it takes about an hour and a half! Does the villages etc ie Wellesbourne/Charlecote/Hampton Lucey and then goes onto Warwick/Leamington/Kenilworth/Warwick University. I used to cycle as it took me about the same time while (trying to) keep myself from seizing up!
 
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