Re: GF Train /metro : Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:56 am  

Honestly I live in Sale and get the metro all the time to United games and such and its really not that bad.
Options are: Queue for up to 20 minutes or so for the packed metro back into town (Only 4 stops)
Walk down to deansgate - 30 Minutes or so with a lot of other people. No safety issues at all.

The metro isnt as bad as people are saying at all. Yes its busy but your going to a sporting event with 70,000 odd in attendance so its going to be busy everywhere. There will be many metrolink people on the platform organising people into each section of the metro so I wouldnt worry too much about your littleuns.

Come on Warriors!

Re: GF Train /metro : Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:42 am  

Abacus wrote:

On your return journey there will be a MASSIVE scrum to get on the Metrolink northbound platform for trams returning to Manchester - skip the scrum follow the signs for the southbound platform to Altrincham and take the next tram soutbound to Dane Road, cross over to the empty northbound platform and away you go....simples!

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brilliant.......will do

Re: GF Train /metro : Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:59 am  

How's long the Metrostink journey from Old Trafford back into the centre?

Re: GF Train /metro : Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:09 pm  

THE last time i visited in 2001 i was experiencing the biggest ever que to go on a tram! and even when i got to piccadilly the train was like a tin of SARDINES my advice go on a coach or in the car

Re: GF Train /metro : Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:14 pm  

10-15 mins between OT and the city centre on the Metro.

Re: GF Train /metro : Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:22 pm  

Hopefully Metrolink have now figured out that there's an event on, and put more or bigger trams on the line. This wasn't the case the previous times Wigan have been there, so they just had the normal 2-coach trams on, and the queues were horrendous.

Re: GF Train /metro : Mon Sep 27, 2010 1:32 pm  

Easier solution, a pint or several in the Trafford after the match, let the crowds die down!

Re: GF Train /metro : Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:20 pm  

i would avoid the tram coming back, went the muse gig at the LCCC and we saw the queue and walked the other way for a taxi.

Re: GF Train /metro : Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:49 pm  

Grand Final travel options:

1. Car
2. Train
3. Coach
4. A 12-seater stretched Disco Jeep, complete with its own karaoke and smoke machine