London Banter - View Single Post - Commuting from Liverpool Street to Chelmsford

John · December 7th 05, 05:09 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.transport

In article , Tom
Anderson writes
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 wrote:

Actually - what I am really interested in is can I do this from SW19
(Wimbledon) ?

Ah.

Wimbledon - Liverpool Street - Chelmsford.

Sounds horrible - but I wreckon 1.5 hours ???

That sounds broadly right. It's the Wimbledon - Liverpool Street bit
that's going to hurt; once you're at LLS, Bob's your uncle. The obvious
route in is to take the District, then change to the Circle somewhere
before Tower Hill; the other options would involve getting into town and
onto the Central line, but i don't think that's going to be any quicker.

A lot of trains on the Great Eastern stop at Stratford these days; there
might be some advantage in doing Wimbledon - Stratford - Chelmsford;
perhaps a train to Waterloo, then Jubilee line to Stratford. You still
have to ride the peak to Waterloo, and probably to Stratford too, but you
don't have to go via the middle of town.

The good news is that the extra length of your journey, relative to normal
into-London commutes, means that you'll be setting off earlier anyway, so
you might get through town before the worst of the peak hits. If you're
lucky.

tom

You might want to check the fares, etc. - it may be cheaper to buy daily
tickets from Liverpool Street because they count as off peak than a
season. My kids go to Chelmsford against the peak and it works out well
over £50 a year cheaper to go to the station each Sunday and buy a
week's worth of tickets than it is to buy them a season ticket.
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John Alexander,

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