London Banter - View Single Post - Cheaper 'Advance' tickets on the Stansted Express

[email protected] · December 13th 13, 06:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
10:41:52 on Fri, 13 Dec 2013, remarked:
Even if they don't get many points for their trains (including the
Stansted Express which is painfully slow, although they are quite new
and clean) Greater Anglia have introduced quite a lot of ticketing
innovations. Far more than any other TOC I can think of.

Indeed. They have revolutionised my arrangements for business trips to
London.

And talking about their trains, they appear to have downgraded the
Cambridge-Ely-Norwich service to 2-car trains at the recent timetable
change. During the day that won't be too much of an issue, but if
it's a permanent thing, in the rush hours I can foresee quite a bit
of over- crowding especially between Cambridge and Ely.

Are you sure it wasn't just an occasional instance? They have 8 three-car
units, bought for the Anglia franchise and 4 two-car units bought for the
Cambridge-Norwich service launch in 2002.

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Colin Rosenstiel