The Anonymous Widower

Greater Anglia Get It Together

I travel to Ipswich regularly to see Ipswich Town play.

My last two tickets cost me £34.95 and that was made up by buying a Senior ticket from the Zone 6 boundary (Harold Wood) to Ipswich and then upgrading it to First.

Yesterday’s ticket was much simpler in that it was a Senior First Class ticket all the way and back for £32.60.

I’ve just looked it up the 19th of October, when Ipswich play Burnley and I can now buy one on-line for £32.60.

it also looks like that for a Tuesday night match, I can get an Off-Peak First Return to Ipswich for the same price, provided I leave before 16:30.  I don’t remember that being possible before.  i could of course be wrong. The only returns to Ipswich I can find in my credit card statements are £34.95.

It looks like the price has got down for me and I’ll now be able to avoid the queues at Liverpool Street station on a Saturday morning, by buying my ticket on-line. I’ll also have time for a proper lunch before I travel.

That’s progress.

I’ve never found any fault with the staff on the trains to Ipswich, but today they seemed to have gone up a gear in cheeriness. The steward was also offering more than the usual single complimentary drink with your First Class ticket.

I have no complaints and let’s hope it all gets even better.

For instance, it is known that Herculean efforts are sometimes needed to keep the Class 90 locomotives on top form. As passengers generally like the smooth riding Mark 3 coaches, could a small injection of the new Class 88 locomotives, allow some Norwich services to be extended to Great Yarmouth, as they used to be in the past. Would they also enable proper trains to be run to Bury St. Edmunds and Lowestoft?

September 29, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Sport, Transport/Travel | Class 88 Locomotive, Ipswich, Mark 3 Coach, Trains