Greater Anglia have announced that they will be introducing a reduced timetable from Monday 23 March, as everyone across Greater Anglia works flat out to provide transport for people delivering essential services. With the coronavirus situation, customer demand has reduced, whilst staff availability in Greater Anglia and Network Rail Anglia has also started to be affected, making changes to the timetable necessary – as they need to provide a timetable that they can continue to offer on a consistent basis.
The timetable that will operate from Monday onwards is closer to a Sunday timetable, but with extra early morning and later evening services, to deliver an effective public transport service for key workers. Reducing the number of trains in service also creates opportunities for additional cleaning activities on trains, and in depots, and allows more targeted cleaning at stations.
The service level will deliver enough seats to meet the current demand levels and the timetable will be kept under regular review to react to any further developments.
The entire Greater Anglia team is absolutely committed to keeping the region moving, while also keeping themselves safe.
Details of the reduced timetable are available on the Greater Anglia website. An outline summary of the route by route frequency is shown below:
Half-hourly
Hertford East to Stratford
Southend to London
Hourly
Norwich to London intercity services
Ipswich to London (in addition to the intercity service)
Clacton to London – but no services to or via Colchester Town
Cambridge to London
Norwich to Cambridge – trains will not run through to Stansted Airport, so passengers can change at Ely or Cambridge for onward connections
Norwich to Sheringham, Norwich to Great Yarmouth and Norwich to Lowestoft
Ipswich to Lowestoft, Ipswich to Felixstowe and Ipswich to Cambridge
Thorpe-le-Soken to Walton-on-the-Naze
Manningtree to Harwich
Marks Tey to Sudbury
Witham to Braintree (shuttle all day with no direct trains to London)
Wickford to Southminster
Stansted Airport to London
Two-hourly
Ipswich to Peterborough
Greater Anglia have advised that will continue to do all they can to provide an excellent service for everyone who does travel by train and to support customers, colleagues and the communities they serve, during this challenging and difficult period.
