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LFW Travel Guides — Britannia Stadium, Stoke City
LFW Travel Guides — Britannia Stadium, Stoke City
Monday, 15th Oct 2012 22:05 by Clive Whittingham

The usual travel, ticket and drinking tips for the QPR fans heading to Stoke City for our Premiership match on November 10.

Ground Name: Britannia Stadium

Capacity: 28,383

Address: Stanley Matthews Way, Stoke On Trent, ST4 4EG

Telephone: 0871 663 2008

Ticket Office: 0871 663 2007

By Car

It's 160 miles and three hours (give or take) up the M1 and M6 from Loftus Road for this one and the ground is one of the easier ones to find when you do arrive. Leave the M6 at junction 15 and then join the A500 towards Stoke. Follow that past the junction with the A34 then leave at the next slip road to join the A50 towards Derby . Move into the left hand lane immediately and use the slip road with the ground visible on the right.

 

Worth bearing in mind, and we've been caught like this before, that if you're in the south car park then it's all rather different, and you're likely to be stuck in a big queue of cars through the village of Trentham. For that you'll need to turn right onto the A34 from the A500 instead of passing over it. Follow the A34 to the first roundabout and turn left onto the A5035 Longton Road which then goes over a small humpback bridge. You will eventually find a traffic light junction leading onto Sir Stanley Matthews Way which leads through an industrial estate to the ground and the south car park. Last time we did this on a Saturday the queues were horrendous.

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Parking

There are plenty of little side roads waiting to be developed into industrial estates that we have parked on before, although apparently the parking wardens have become a little fussier since our last visit. The Screwfix Direct base offers 300 spaces at £4 each located at the A50 end of the Stan Matthews Way , postcode ST4 8GR. There are large car parks at the stadium charging £5 – usual associated traffic problems before and after the match.

 

Train

A choice of trains for this one: faster and more expensive Virgin services, or the much slower but usually much cheaper London Midland trains. Both run out of Euston to Stoke-on-Trent. The single tickets on Virgin are £24 which means a £48 round trip, and coming back you’ve no choice but to book one of those. However going north in the morning try the 0846 with an 1113 arrival tme for an £8 ticket or the 1046 arriving at 13.13 for a £12 one.

From the station it's a two mile walk, mostly uphill towards the end. Shuttle buses run every 15 minutes from Glebe St (right out of the station, down Station Rod, right at the lights along Leek Road , over the A500 and into Glebe Street ) and taxis are readily available. To walk to the ground you can again go right out of the station and right at the lights along Leek Road but then go left on to the tow path by the canal and follow that until you see the ground and serving footbridges over the water and railway line. The guide says it's half an hour.

 

Coach

The official club coach, leaving Loftus Road at 9am and the Target Roundabout at 9.30am is sold out. There are still seats on the LSA coach which leaves the Springbok at 9am and is priced £25 and £15 concessions, with an extra £5 charge for non-members. Call Gary ASAP on 07506 028 189 to book your place there.

Tickets

Rangers have 600 tickets remaining for this game priced £25 adults, £19 seniors, £15 for under 17s and £12 under 11s. There are also four wheelchair spaces and 20 ambulant disabled tickets, priced: £19 adults and seniors, £15 under 17s and £12 under 11s. Tickets are currently available to members with 30 loyalty points or more and will go on general sale in the morning.

Pubs

As ever with out-of-town grounds pubs in the immediate vicinity are few and far between. There’s a Harvester right next door. Last season Rangers fans were met at the station by a huge amount of police handing out leaflets directing them five minutes down the road to the university bar which is the designated watering hole for away fans and comes with bus transport up to the ground after 2pm. If you’re arriving by train the Beer in the Evening lists more than 20 pubs within half a mile of the station, click here for the full list.

 

Links >>> Stoke official website >>> Detailed fans’ guide

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