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FOOTBALL SPECIALS – THE HIGHS AND LOWS

STEVE COYNE LOOKS BACK AT WHEN THE TRAIN TOOK THE STRAIN TO GET FANS TO GAMES…

LOOKING BACK

Looking relaxed: Burnley supporters on a League Liner

IT WAS the 20th October, 1965. I was 11-years-old attending my first away game.
I travelled by train with my Dad from Coventry to Bolton Trinity Street to attend Bolton Wanderers v Coventry City in the old Second Division. The fare was 25s for adults and 17s for ‘Juveniles’. Although I didn’t realise it at the time I, and the other 500-or-so passengers, were part of a pioneering initiative.
At a time when the issue of f...

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