Train To Old Trafford On Sunday!

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WarryToffee

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Hey Guys,

Is anyone planning to get the train to the match?
If so, has anyone got the times of the trains leaving from Manchester Oxford Road to the ground itself?

Cheers
WarryToffee
 

flag a cab (if there's a couple of you), will only be about six quid.

unless they rip you off, which they won't as they'll probably support city.
 
I live in Birchwood and presume that it would be easy getting the train to Oxford Road or Piccadilly then another train to the ground.

(Already tried googling)
 
Ooooh birchwood. I worked there for 6 months and am still having counselling.

But yeah, trains go direct from the station there to Oxford Road. If that was your question.... I forgot to read it properly.
 

I know trains to go to Manchester and i know trains run to the Man Utd ground on matchday but my question was - does anyone have the times which they will be running on a Sunday!
 
try "journey planner" manchester.

What I would do, is get off at oxford road. Walk down Oxford road to the library. Get on the tram going the out of town way (every 6 minutes or so). Get off at the stop for old trafford.

Cheap and cheerful.
 
lived in manchester for some seven years.

in this neck of the city centre there's manchester art gallery, manchester library and manchester catherdral is over yonder (well its the other side really)

What is noticable is how Liverpool's versions (as we seem to not only have twice of what Manchester has) are so much better and bigger. Our Liverpool library is [Poor language removed] wonderful. Manchester library is good but doesn't hold a candle to it. Manchester art gallery is a bit naff all told. The exhibition space at the top is nice, but the tate and the walker piss all over it.

As for the catherdrals, please. The contentious modernist stylising of paddys whigwam and the huge monolithic splendour of the anglican compared to a well fashioned church the size of half a block of flats. We have nightclubs in Liverpool bigger than Manchester catherdral.

Still, I like manchester for all that. Friendly people, good laugh.

Can't do us for civic buildings though, still, they never got all that slave trade money.
 

leonbil said:
lived in manchester for some seven years.

in this neck of the city centre there's manchester art gallery, manchester library and manchester catherdral is over yonder (well its the other side really)

What is noticable is how Liverpool's versions (as we seem to not only have twice of what Manchester has) are so much better and bigger. Our Liverpool library is [Poor language removed] wonderful. Manchester library is good but doesn't hold a candle to it. Manchester art gallery is a bit naff all told. The exhibition space at the top is nice, but the tate and the walker piss all over it.

As for the catherdrals, please. The contentious modernist stylising of paddys whigwam and the huge monolithic splendour of the anglican compared to a well fashioned church the size of half a block of flats. We have nightclubs in Liverpool bigger than Manchester catherdral.

Still, I like manchester for all that. Friendly people, good laugh.

Can't do us for civic buildings though, still, they never got all that slave trade money.
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I can safely say that I've never, ever seen a library or it's contents described in such a fashion.

Hat's off to you Leonbil. (y)
 
TX Bill said:
I can safely say that I've never, ever seen a library or it's contents described in such a fashion.

Hat's off to you Leonbil. (y)
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I used to bunk off school and go into Liverpool library and read all day.

I was a weird kid.

But even if you don't read the scale of the place is impressive. Combined with the quietness.
 
There's not just one major library in Manchester though. There's over 20. Some are bigger than the 'Central' library.

Tate does indeed pish all over much of Manchester's galleries but the Whitworth is up there with the best.

Libraries gave us power; but pubs gave us beer.

Bless them all.
 
the whitworth?

Has it still got the textiles exhibition on, the one they haven't changed for nigh on a decade.

The problem with the Whitworth - and I visited regularly, whilst I lived in Manchester, is that they have the same stuff on all the time.

There's a good Paolozzi, a great Peter Blake piece and a Picasso print (although there's thousands of them) and one of several copies worldwide of Hamiltons 'swingeing 60's' and a few abstracts - other than that pretty ropey if you ask me- although the setting is nice.

To be honest, the permanent exhibition is a little weak and the occasional exhibitions are often worse.

Just my humble opinion. Compare to the Tate or the Walker, neither the Whitworth or Manchester Gallery match up - although the manchester gallery has a gorgeous Francis Bacon Painting and a classic if somewhat hurried Modigliani (one of the ones he knocked off dead quick in order to pay his rent and buy absinthe in his local café - if you look close to it you'll see that there are hairs from his cheap brushes in the paint).

Much prefer the galleries, both public and private in Liverpool. As far as other libraries in Manchester, I've been a few, but then Liverpool has loads as well, I was just comparing the ones in the city centres.

(Chinatown is better in Manchester, as is shopping if that's your bag)
 

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