Checked the policy for broadcasting staff on trains, standard class must be used except when its written into their contract that they are allowed to travel in first. Its normally though what the production manager deems appropriate for the person's status.
Many stars who smoke however refuse to travel by train as they can't smoke en-route. Some of the most expensive productions however will fly their talent around the country by helicopter but this is very rare.
Moira Stuart on a Chiltern Mark 3 set last year (never knew she was a 68 basher, did you!?).
As I got off a Manchester - Euston train at Crewe the entire Aldershot Town FC team boarded.
Beat that for famous!
And just last month, I was on the same Eurostar as Glenn Hoddle and saw him when we disembarked at St Pancras.
I shared a Virgin first class coach with the Boreham Wood football team on their way to Barrow one Saturday last winter. They got on at Milton Keynes & got off again at Crewe to travel back south after hearing that the game had been called off. The players weren't happy because they'd have to travel by minibus when it was rearranged for midweek.
Not that it counts but flew from Heathrow to Plymouth on Brymon Airways with John Prescott when he was Labour Transport spokesmen pre 1997, travelling down to do an Any Questions in Plymouth. The flight crew asked him to keep the Heathrow link open to the South West. In Government - He didn't.
Was he sweating?
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Why would a football team even consider a train over a coach? The cost difference must be horrific.
Speed, comfort, time, conveninence? A block booking for 30/40 people might offer decent savings
( PS have you ever tried driving to Barrow? It takes ages)
Lets see...
- The guy that runs Jodrell Bank
It would be about £800 for a coach for that single journey but probably less given they'll have regular bookings. Would be fine if the ground was outside the station but it'll incur a coach trip in Barrow then. It's absurd.