Drinking on the Saturday night train?

[Trainbrainpain]

Just took a train home. Absolutely crammed 3 hour journey north. It seems that Saturday night trains have just become a giant travelling pub. Loads of drunk stumbling men (football fans) with bags and bags of alcohol and takeaway food.
People vaping, playing music on speakers, shouting in the aisles , arguing, singing, and everything else you’d expect from a crowded pub on a Saturday night.
But really not a safe or pleasant situation for the families with young children , or people just wanting to travel in peace.
For the price of the ticket, aibu to expect a more regulated experience? I wish they’d ban alcohol consumption on trains.

late night trains were just like this as far back as I can remember going back to the early 1970s. I wouldn’t expect any different if I chose a train on a Saturday night.

Alright Nervous Nerris. It's never been like that in my experience. People are generally really kind to him, striking up conversation with him, even after a few drinks. Maybe especially after a few drinks. Most recent was a train packed to the rafters with Northampton rugby fans. Lovely people and very funny.

Why are you sneering at pp for being nervous, when clearly you're describing an altogether milder, safer and more wholesome journey than the ones being discussed on the thread? People are describing sexual harassment and violence, vomiting and urinating in the aisles. Not a jolly encounter with some mild mannered chaps behaving like gentlemen.

How depressing. I spent a month in Lisbon as a student many years ago and stag parties are not something I associate with my time there at all. I'm guessing this change just may have something to do with Lisbon's explosion in popularity with foreign tourists.

I'm sure many on here would think it's great that more and more cities outside the UK are getting to experience the fun of our drinking culture.

When you let people drink on the train that's what you get im in Australia and it's illegal here always has been

Precisely. This was not a happy atmosphere. It was volatile . Less happy chappy, more 2am kebab shop vibes.

“Nervous Nerris”

So patronising.

Being in a confined space with drunk, loud, rowdy men chanting and shouting, not observing personal space - some of whom are likely coked up - who do not have ANY self awareness, consideration for others, or even think how it might be uncomfortable for the people around them and you write “Nervous Nerris”?

Was it you on my train? Because how can you be here defending such yobbish behaviour.

ah ye olde vomit comet

If you are to ban alcohol then you need it not just to be on the trains. No sales on the stations for starters.

It might be less if more football matches were 3pm kick offs, which are now a rarity in the Premier League and fewer in other divisions. At least without early evening kick offs, many fans would have left in the early evening.

I love a few train tinnies on a girls night out.