Kneedown
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Mrs Kneedown once served the Leicester City team, along with Caudio Ranieri to St Pancras, although it was the day prior to the match.
They weren't catching the train from Kent to Cumbria - it's been mentioned numerous times in this thread that they were catching the train from Euston to Lancaster.
They're not a part time club.Assuming they don't all live on Euston Road, they've still got to get to Euston. It is 80 miles from Dover so even if many of them are based in and around London, that's no good for a part time club.
Obviously they travel First Class and usually reserve a complete carriage.Manchester United do (or did until recently) often travel to games in London by train, from Stockport as a rule.
Last away game BPA won was ironically at Bradford City in Feb 68.In the good old days of the late 1960s, when Bradford were still in the fourth division and there were still through workings to the SouthWest, I came across our hapless team on such a train somewhere south of Birmingham. Our manager, the late Laurie Brown asked "Off to the match like?" and promptly gave me a complimentary ticket when I answered in the affirmative. But our full back, the late Gary Hudson said "You're not coming to watch us are you? You must be bloody mad!". I had been Gary's form prefect a couple of years earlier. Needless to say, Exeter won 4-2, part of Bradford's 56-game run without an away win in the FL (which was suspended rather than ended when we got booted out in 1970 with a lot less sympathy than Bury).
Last away game BPA won was ironically at Bradford City in Feb 68.