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Steve Firth wrote:
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Anyone have any experience of this ?

Only about 50% of the population of Chelmsford.

Difficult ?

No, but Chelmsford is a dump, and most of the villages around are the
sort of places where brothers marry their sisters at the age of 11.

There is talk among the people of Chelmsford of another station being
built north-east of the town, near the villages of Springfield and
Boreham, to add capacity.

Among the knowledgable the talk goes roughly like this: "You know that
new station? There's not a cat in hell's chance of it ever getting
built".

Unfortunately Chelmsford is currently deciding where to place extra
housing based on the fact that the station is going to be built.

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On 5 Dec 2005 05:50:09 -0800, wrote:

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

Wimbledon - Liverpool Street - Chelmsford.

Sounds horrible - but I wreckon 1.5 hours ???

Liverpool St Chelmsford is an easy and fast route. You also have the
option of picking up most Chelmsford trains at Stratford.

On the Wimbledon leg you can go London Bridge or Waterloo. From
London Bridge you can walk or 'bus to Liverpool St. From Waterloo you
can take the drain to Bank then Central Line (or 'bus or walk) to
Liverpool St. Or you can walk over the river and take Circle from
Embankment. Or you can take Jubilee to Stratford. This sounds
complicated, but the great plus is the number of options. Unless the
system is completely down, you'll get there.

I live at Ilford, on the Chelmsford Liverpool St line. Sometimes I
have to be in Wimbledon by 10.00 a.m.. I'm safe as long as I'm on a
train at Ilford soon after 9.00. Ilford Stratford Bank Waterloo
Wimbledon.

In article , Tom
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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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Steve Firth ha scritto nel messaggio


No, but Chelmsford is a dump,

With the world's greatest baptist church, Broomleigh Baptist Church.

http://broomleigh.name/

and most of the villages around are the sort of places
where brothers marry their sisters at the age of 11.

You can tell the Chelmsford virgin, because she can run faster than her uncle.
Rather that, than have Atheist trash polluting our town.

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David Boothroyd ha scritto nel messaggio


Unfortunately Chelmsford is currently deciding where to place extra
housing based on the fact that the station is going to be built.

Just as long as none of it is wasted on the poor, eh comrade?

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In article , Ian
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Transport Direct http://www.transportdirect.com/ reckons
[...]
I have no
idea if this is accurate, but it is funded by the Department of Transport.

You might want to Google for previous examples of the, um, interesting
ideas thrown up by Transport Direct.

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