Today, Portsmouth F.C. played away at Doncaster.
I got the 1128 EMR service from Derby to Sheffield and noted several Portsmouth fans onboard who changed at Sheffield onto the TPE service for Doncaster.
When I returned after 1800, again I noted Portsmouth fans at Sheffield boarding the EMR London service but even more strangely, several travelled on the 1856 XC service, which I was on.
Wouldn't the obvious way have been Portsmouth - London, then Kings Cross - Doncaster and vice versa?
To return via Birmingham and presumably Reading seems a ridiculously convoluted way of getting back to Portsmouth after 1900 in the evening.
What would the attraction of these routings be? would they actually work out cheaper?
I got the 1128 EMR service from Derby to Sheffield and noted several Portsmouth fans onboard who changed at Sheffield onto the TPE service for Doncaster.
When I returned after 1800, again I noted Portsmouth fans at Sheffield boarding the EMR London service but even more strangely, several travelled on the 1856 XC service, which I was on.
Wouldn't the obvious way have been Portsmouth - London, then Kings Cross - Doncaster and vice versa?
To return via Birmingham and presumably Reading seems a ridiculously convoluted way of getting back to Portsmouth after 1900 in the evening.
What would the attraction of these routings be? would they actually work out cheaper?