Sandhills station

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I suppose you could walk up to kirkdale, but that’s not ideal if you’re going back to the city centre

 

[Lanolin]

Kirkdale, Bank Hall and Sandhills.

Now we are down to one, with more fans and less options of alternative travel.

You can't count Sandhills as being close to Goodison without counting Moorfields and James Street (and Kirkdale come to think of it) as close to BMD.

 

[PhilEFC]

It'll need a garrison of shock-police on some match days. Because the aways that turn up mob handed will need minding. Funnelling 90% of 52k people through one small train station is (having said that out loud) stupefying dangerous.

Plus they have to factor in away fans. There will be chaos.

 

[Ragnar]

Kirkdale, Bank Hall and Sandhills.

Now we are down to one, with more fans and less options of alternative travel.

Bank Hall and Sandhills aren’t exactly walkable lad. And if that’s the case we may aswell say it’s now Sandhills, Moorfields, and Central.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

certainly where on street parking would cause minimal impact to residents or businesses that would be close dat match time. as a wool with only 1 train home option for a midweek evening game, travelling by car is the only realistic option at the moment for midweek games, defo the case for an 8pm kickoff cup game that may go on later than normal

I think I might just keep parking where I usually do and eating the extra walk

 

[PhilM]

Bank Hall and Sandhills aren’t exactly walkable lad. And if that’s the case we may aswell say it’s now Sandhills, Moorfields, and Central.

I can walk from Kirkdale to Goodison in 12-15 minutes, which is the closest in walking distance. Bank Hall is about another 5-8 minutes on top of that walk.

The Soccer Bus currently goes to Sandhills and takes a fair percentage of fans. BMD to Bank Hall is close to 30, and Kirkdale is 35-40 minutes.

The point being that the distribution between stations is now far less. Without my lad, the walk to Moorfields is doable, but with him it's pretty unfair on his legs.

 

[Charro]

Unfortunately merseyrail is the worst rail network in the county and will collapse under any extra demand.

Rotherham has his head in the sand. He’s caused this with rushing through the new trains when they weren’t ready and the implementation of head bolt lane has been a disaster and trains are constantly delayed or cancelled.

 

[MACCA75]

Bank Hall and Sandhills aren’t exactly walkable lad. And if that’s the case we may aswell say it’s now Sandhills, Moorfields, and Central.

I walk to Goodison from Bank Hall, thousands do.

I think the new stadium to Moorfields sounds like more of a trek though

 

[PhilM]

Unfortunately merseyrail is the worst rail network in the county and will collapse under any extra demand.

Rotherham has his head in the sand. He’s caused this with rushing through the new trains when they weren’t ready and the implementation of head bolt lane has been a disaster and trains are constantly delayed or cancelled.

 

[Charro]

It’s certainly one of them.

 

[Walken]

It about 25 mins to walk into town you flabby whingers

 

[Harryflashman]

It about 25 mins to walk into town you flabby whingers

I wasn’t lucky enough to get drawn out but I’ve walked it quite a few times since they started the ground and it took me that 25 mins . We’ll probably plan to have a pint to break it up on most match days but 25 mins doesn’t seem excessive to me .

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

It about 25 mins to walk into town you flabby whingers

I used to walk from Mount Pleasant to Goodison and back

This will be a breeze

 

[Harryflashman]

Not lucky enough to go but Based on mates who went and photos I’ve received and seen online I’m beyond excited about this now .

 

[Lanolin]

I walk to Goodison from Bank Hall, thousands do.

I think the new stadium to Moorfields sounds like more of a trek though

Google says a 29 minute walk for the former and 31 minutes for the latter. Can't imagine that 2 minutes being a dealbreaker.