In message , at 20:46:03 on Thu, 12 Dec
2013, Mizter T remarked:
https://www.stanstedexpress.com/offers/advance-fares

These are a bit different from regular Advance fares elsewhere on the
railway in these respects...

* They allow travel on *any* Stansted Express service on the specified
date (i.e. you are not restricted to travel on a particular train at a
specified time).

* They must be purchased 7 days before travel.

* They are not quota limited (at least there's no suggestion they are).

* No Railcard discounts.

* They're issued as either an "e-ticket" (aka print at home) or an
"m-ticket" (in this instance, as a simple SMS/text message) [2].

* Whilst this isn't explicitly spelt out anywhere I can see, it seems
they're only available from the Stansted Express website.

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.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 20:46:03 on Thu, 12 Dec
2013, Mizter T remarked:
https://www.stanstedexpress.com/offers/advance-fares

These are a bit different from regular Advance fares elsewhere on the
railway in these respects...

* They allow travel on *any* Stansted Express service on the specified
date (i.e. you are not restricted to travel on a particular train at a
specified time).

* They must be purchased 7 days before travel.

* They are not quota limited (at least there's no suggestion they are).

* No Railcard discounts.

* They're issued as either an "e-ticket" (aka print at home) or an
"m-ticket" (in this instance, as a simple SMS/text message) [2].

* Whilst this isn't explicitly spelt out anywhere I can see, it seems
they're only available from the Stansted Express website.

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.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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.
--
Roland Perry

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.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 13:04:03
on Fri, 13 Dec 2013, remarked:

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?

When a 2-car turned up for my trip to Cambridge yesterday it confirmed
my suspicion - I'd only seen 2-car all week. The first day was last
Sunday, and I thought it might have been a substitution due to being a
Sunday, but it appears to have carried on all week.

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.

They were using 3-car on the Peterborough-Ipswich too (quite a step up
from when the service was run with a dogbox). Today I'll try to look out
for specific trains.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 08:01:47 on Sat, 14 Dec
2013, Roland Perry remarked:

They were using 3-car on the Peterborough-Ipswich too (quite a step up
from when the service was run with a dogbox). Today I'll try to look
out for specific trains.

All three (CambridgeNorwich and PeterboroughIpswich) just now were
3-car. So the 2-car I've been seeing all week do seem to be the odd ones
out, if this keeps up all day.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 08:01:47 on Sat, 14 Dec
2013, Roland Perry remarked:

They were using 3-car on the Peterborough-Ipswich too (quite a step up
from when the service was run with a dogbox). Today I'll try to look
out for specific trains.

All three (CambridgeNorwich and PeterboroughIpswich) just now were
3-car. So the 2-car I've been seeing all week do seem to be the odd
ones out, if this keeps up all day.

The 2-car units are meant for the Cambridge-Ipswich service these days. Use
of 3-car units on Peterborough-Ipswich is normal. They used to carry on to
Colchester or Liverpool St. The ending of services into Liverpool St (From
Lowestoft if not from Peterborough) released enough 3-car units to cascade
them to the Cambridge-Norwich service and 2-car units to end the use of
single car trains on Cambridge-Ipswich.

--
Colin Rosenstiel