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Date: 22 June 2006 09:46:03
How many Take That fans does it take to mess up a train timetable???
Answer: A millenium stadium full!!!
I never imagined it might be helpful to check the events guide for the Millenium stadium before planning an evening trip to Cardiff. How wrong I was...
Last night the city was swarming with thousands of 20 and 30 year old fans of one of the worst boy bands ever (though its a tough call, there are so many...) taking a nostalgia trip back to the 90's. Thankfully they all dissappeared into the stadium about 7.30, but then reappeared a few hours later, filling every street and the station forecourt... which was set up as if for a major sporting event, with barriers and individual queues for each train. Trains being more full than usual I don't think many people actually made it onto them, but west Wales (incuding Swansea) did not seem to be as popular a destination as others (fewer Take That fans here obviously!!!) so the queue was fairly non-existant by the time I joined it. Which was nice.
In future, I recommend scanning the listings in advance, at the very least to work out when to get to the station to jump the queue.