I booked the travel for my trip to Norwich in the middle of March, at the time the really cheap tickets were released.
The journey back on Friday no problem, all booked. However, I couldn’t find any cheap tickets for the journey up on the Monday.
I knew that given it was the bank holiday it might be a little more problematic to get up, but it’s only when I checked the tickets available and realised that they were nearly five times as expensive as the cheap ticket that I suspected something more complicated was going on.
So how was it recommending I make my journey from Liverpool Street to Norwich (bearing in mind the sensible answer is the hourly direct train).
First walk from Liverpool Street Railway Station to the Underground. Catch the tube to Kings Cross St Pancras. Walk from the tube station to Kings Cross. Catch the train from Kings Cross to Peterborough. Change at Peterborough for a train to Ely (changing part way for a replacement bus). Change at Ely for another train across to Norwich (changing part way again for a replacement bus).
If that was the suggested route, what where they doing to the direct route to make that more complicated.
Today I found out!
From Norwich, so the reverse was true from London, catch the train to a random station between Colchester and Romford. Get off there at take a 45 minute coach ride to a random tube station at the far end of the Central line. Catch the central line into Liverpool Street.
All well and good.
Except large parts of the central line were closed for engineering works meaning that there was a heavily reduced service and yet more replacement busses.
Can someone remind me of this the next time I book to start a holiday during a Bank Holiday Weekend!
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