Special Trains for FA Cup Semi final

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    I am looking into the possibility of running a special train/s for our game at Wembley and am in touch with Virgin Rail(corporate hire division).

    My contact at Virgin has contacted me in the last hour to tell me that because our game has now been confirmed as the Saturday evening game on the 12th April(BBC originally said it w 3:00pm Sunday) that they would not be able to offer a charter service for that day.

    There are planned engineering works on the main West Coast line, so on Saturday the 12th Virgin will be running a bus service from Stafford to Warrington Bank Quay.
    He went on to say that transferring charter passengers onto busses and back again would be totally impractical and cost prohibitive, he also added that this could change closer to the date and he would keep me informed.

    So be aware before booking, if any train charter company advertise a Wembley service that day, like the ones advertised last year, they probably will not run.

    EDIT, because of another thread

    Sorry I forgot to say the planned engineering works are to take place between 6:00pm on the Saturday and 6:00am on the Sunday morning and will not disrupt travel outside these times, it will only cause problems for those travelling back to Wigan after the game on Saturday, I also think it only effects the special train charter travel and other routes like via Manchester may not be a problem.

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