With five hours to go, Paddington Station in London is swamped in green jerseys as Irish supporters look to hop the train to the Welsh capital.
God speed to those people. Let's hope British Rail has laid on an adequate number of trains.
Jamie Mintern has sent us in this photo of scenes at Paddington Station. This was the scene roughly an hour ago.
The invasion begins. Huge queues of Irish fans in London waiting for train to Cardiff for France game #RWC2015 pic.twitter.com/6E7J3sT6V8
— Adrian Rutherford (@arutherfordNI) October 11, 2015
Seems like most of Ireland is on the train to Cardiff from London this morning! #Paddington pic.twitter.com/GK3V47Z8Jd — Peter Bailey (@peterwb1) October 11, 2015
Massive queues at #paddington for the train to Cardiff #coybig #RWC2015 pic.twitter.com/09PlsGO6iP
— Fintan Gillespie (@fintangillespie) October 11, 2015
The 9.30 train from #Paddington to #cardiff on Sunday hasn't seen such a crowd in years! #irevfra#rwc2015#irfupic.twitter.com/JGutGuCU0l — David Slattery (@DavidJSlattery1) October 11, 2015