Trains

[Ronnie the Rep]

Get a bus to Stockport. Plenty of trains from there into town.

its not getting into town thats easy. its the train from manchester to salford. there is only 1 a hour. and it is always FULL of students. would make sense to run 2 a hour or even a bus?

That is absolutely bollocks.

There are 3 or 4 trains an hour from Picc/OxRd/Deansgate up til 11pm on a week day. You can walk from Piccadilly station to Salford Uni in 30 minutes. Less if you get the Metrolink across town to Market Street and walk from there. There are two regular, frequent bus services from Piccadilly Gardens to Salford Crescent.

Not to mention the rest of them that go from Victoria/Shudehill.

You should try going in the opposite direction, it's FULL of commuters before it even gets to Crescent. And by full, I mean you can't even get on it sometimes, often because they're ignorant twats and won't move down the train no matter how loud you shout at them, and a lot of idiots congregate near the doors just because they're getting off three stops later. As a tall bloke, I relish the morning shove. Get with it and start shouting at people, and just stick out your elbows as you pass if they won't move. And then do it again as you get off at the next stop. It's liberating and very funny.

haha. I'm tall as well and do exactly the same on the London Tube

 

[baldmosher]

haha. I'm tall as well and do exactly the same on the London Tube

It's the only reason that I relish going to London although in my experience they're so used to it that they are usually quite compliant and move down without thinking. It's just elsewhere they think that standing room only is some kind of hate crime against the commuter

I have single-handedly exported the "standing on the right" principle to Manchester, I fucking love haring down the escalator to Fairfield Street screaming "SCUSE ME!!!"

 

[bennyboy]

I travel a lot to Edinburgh and Glasgow and the overcrowding only lasts until Preston.Stood as far as Preston and have always got a seat from there.What Manchester station does this Virgin train leave by the way.