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Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 12:55 pm
by Chelmsford Swimmer
I'm on the the 07:48 from Kings Cross to Hartlepool this weekend, that's the easy bit. Getting to Kings Cross from Chelmsford to catch it is a bit more difficult. Anyone else in the same boat be aware:
A12 CLOSED Junctions 16 to 13 (Margaretting Bypass).
No trains between Witham and Shenfield, Bus replacement.
No Central Line between Leytonstone and White City.
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 1:26 pm
by spen666
Elizabeth Line is running Shenfield to Liverpool St I believe, so taxi Chelmsford to Shenfield or rail replacement bus?
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 1:28 pm
by bethnalgreenboy
This might work bus from Chelmsford to Billericay. Billericay to Liverpool St
Then Underground to King's Cross
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 1:50 pm
by Chelmsford Swimmer
bethnalgreenboy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 1:28 pm
This might work bus from Chelmsford to Billericay. Billericay to Liverpool St
Then Underground to King's Cross
I agree, that was already my planned route, an early start. Thank You.
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:21 pm
by The Mindsweep
I'm going from Colchester and avoiding all that replacement bus stuff by going via Ipswich, Peterborough & Darlington.
Slow and a few changes but I'm on my own and like to read and listen to music. Looking forward to a relaxing day. I'm over 60 and it cost me £54 return which I feel is very reasonable.
I have an hours wait at Thornaby on the way back but there's a Weathpoons less than 10 mins walk from the station and plan to have my dinner there.
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 3:18 pm
by Constanza
The Mindsweep wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:21 pm
I'm going from Colchester and avoiding all that replacement bus stuff by going via Ipswich, Peterborough & Darlington.
Slow and a few changes but I'm on my own and like to read and listen to music. Looking forward to a relaxing day. I'm over 60 and it cost me £54 return which I feel is very reasonable.
I have an hours wait at Thornaby on the way back but there's a Weathpoons less than 10 mins walk from the station and plan to have my dinner there.
Have to say, that sounds like a perfect day.
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 6:20 pm
by The Reverend
Constanza wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 3:18 pm
The Mindsweep wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:21 pm
I'm going from Colchester and avoiding all that replacement bus stuff by going via Ipswich, Peterborough & Darlington.
Slow and a few changes but I'm on my own and like to read and listen to music. Looking forward to a relaxing day. I'm over 60 and it cost me £54 return which I feel is very reasonable.
I have an hours wait at Thornaby on the way back but there's a Weathpoons less than 10 mins walk from the station and plan to have my dinner there.
Have to say, that sounds like a perfect day.
Wetherspoons and perfect day do not belong in the same sentence
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:14 pm
by EliotNes
From the title I thought the cricket season might be starting early, it's cold and wet enough for the start of the cricket season
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:29 pm
by Scuba Diver
The Mindsweep wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:21 pm
I'm going from Colchester and avoiding all that replacement bus stuff by going via Ipswich, Peterborough & Darlington.
Slow and a few changes but I'm on my own and like to read and listen to music. Looking forward to a relaxing day. I'm over 60 and it cost me £54 return which I feel is very reasonable.
I have an hours wait at Thornaby on the way back but there's a Weathpoons less than 10 mins walk from the station and plan to have my dinner there.
Great commitment. Respect to you, and enjoy the day.
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 7:12 am
by EH16
The Mindsweep wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:21 pm
I'm going from Colchester and avoiding all that replacement bus stuff by going via Ipswich, Peterborough & Darlington.
Slow and a few changes but I'm on my own and like to read and listen to music. Looking forward to a relaxing day. I'm over 60 and it cost me £54 return which I feel is very reasonable.
I have an hours wait at Thornaby on the way back but there's a Weathpoons less than 10 mins walk from the station and plan to have my dinner there.
Opposite direction for me. 10AM from Edinburgh, change at Newcastle. Into Hartlepool at 12.28. £35.50 return (with my senior railcard). I too will be on my own and am happy reading or to listening to some music. All going well I should be home in Edinburgh about 9PM.
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:45 am
by Harlow
We did Morpeth to Edinburgh last year, it is a fabulous journey along the coast.
But you guys making all this effort, brilliant, you sound like my kind of people
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:22 am
by RedDwarf 1881
Respect to everybody who's going there tomorrow . Fingers crossed we can come away with the 3 pts .
Re: Essex to London this Saturday
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:44 am
by Type high
The Mindsweep wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:21 pm
I'm going from Colchester and avoiding all that replacement bus stuff by going via Ipswich, Peterborough & Darlington.
Slow and a few changes but I'm on my own and like to read and listen to music. Looking forward to a relaxing day. I'm over 60 and it cost me £54 return which I feel is very reasonable.
I have an hours wait at Thornaby on the way back but there's a Weathpoons less than 10 mins walk from the station and plan to have my dinner there.
Doing it in Style. Like it have good day, as for me,myself and 2 sons going by car them doing the work