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Ipswich (A) 22nd September

AlexAnder
AlexAnder Posts: 480
edited June 2012 in Match Day Travel
Went to book train tickets and seems you have to go via Billericay for some reason. There's no direct service from Lpool Street to Ipswich on that day!
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  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Went to book train tickets and seems you have to go via Billericay for some reason. There's no direct service from Lpool Street to Ipswich on that day!
    Change at Colchester via Witham?
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Can also go London to Cambridge then onto Ipswich
  • wallin58
    wallin58 Posts: 174
    I live in Cambridge it's dirt cheap to ipswich
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Match tickets are £40 a pop for this game, I was being told yesterday.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,065
    There are no planned engineering works showing for that day as far as I can tell. So I'm holding fire, as the advance tickets aren't even on sale yet from what I can see & certainly not at a cheap rate.

    http://www.greateranglia.co.uk/engineeringworks
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Match tickets are £40 a pop for this game, I was being told yesterday.
    I think I saw £39.

    Sod that.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,065
    edited July 2012
    2011/12 advance prices in The Cobbold Stand end tier (where away fans go) were :-

    Cat C £30
    Cat B £31
    Cat A £34

    So it depends what Cat we are. I'd say A or B & then we'll have to see. But I'd say £35 max. There are only 1900 places so they can afford to push up the prices.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    I hope we charge them the same.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,253
    Checked on National Rail Enquiries. You have to go Liverpool to Billericay by train then bus to Witham and then train to Ipswich, takes just short of two hours...sod that.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,253
    Thats Liverpool Street by the way.

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  • Crusty54
    Crusty54 Posts: 3,237
    edited July 2012
    The National Rail site still shows a bus service from Billericay to Witham on the 22nd.

    Abellio who now run the service have agreed to reduce the number of weekend shutdowns and as noted above their site shows normal service,

    Might be worth a phone call to confirm
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,200
    Went to book train tickets and seems you have to go via Billericay for some reason. There's no direct service from Lpool Street to Ipswich on that day!
    A tad inconvenient but only adds about 40 minutes to the journey by train.

    Tickets at the moment only available up to 8/9
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    http://www.footballgroundguide.com/ipswich_town/
  • AlexAnder
    AlexAnder Posts: 480
    sorted it. London Lpool Street to Cambridge then Change to ipswich
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,111
    Was looking forward to this as I've not been Ipswich before.
    Now have to decide between this and a weekend in Glasgow for Burns v Mitchell.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,074
    sorted it. London Lpool Street to Cambridge then Change to ipswich
    Getting £33 for that option, that what you saw ?
  • Norfolk_Addick
    Norfolk_Addick Posts: 2,289
    Keep an eye out on nationalexpress.com and thetrainline.com. They often do deals for about £8 each way from London to Norwich/Ipswich.

    Gutted I can't go to that match being one of my local games as I'm on holiday. Also missing the Palace match. Bad timing.
  • AlexAnder
    AlexAnder Posts: 480
    With a YP railcard I got :
    10-58 lpool street to Cambridge 12-08
    19-04 cambridge to lpool street 20-13
    this was £12-55 for a return
    then
    12-43 Cambridge to Ipswich 14-00
    17-19 Ipswich to Cambridge 18-39
    this was £10-50 for a return.
    hope that helps se9, £33 sounds about right without a railcard
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,074
    Cool, cheers. Trying to decide between this and Forrest for my September away game, things are pretty tight financially right now I reckon all in all this one may work out quite a bit more (when match tickets are taken into account)
  • AlexAnder
    AlexAnder Posts: 480
    Yeah match tickets are rumoured to be expensive

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,065
    With a YP railcard I got :
    10-58 lpool street to Cambridge 12-08
    19-04 cambridge to lpool street 20-13
    this was £12-55 for a return
    then
    12-43 Cambridge to Ipswich 14-00
    17-19 Ipswich to Cambridge 18-39
    this was £10-50 for a return.
    hope that helps se9, £33 sounds about right without a railcard
    3 hours jeez. It's normally just over an hour & even busing it from Billericy to Witham it still only takes 2 hours. I reckon adult prices will reduce to 2x£8 singles = £16 or about £11 if you have a YP railcard.
    If I went by train, bearing in mind the above I would still not go via Cambridge. Sorry Alexander.
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,320
    Cambridge is definitely the long way round

    Billericay - Witham isnt that bad a journey but then again who wants to be a bus w*nker :)
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,995
    Weren't tickets something like £28 last time we played there? Gotta be £30+ now.

    I've only been the once ('98 playoffs) but thankfully I'm busy that weekend.
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Trains back to normal for this now, no engineering work.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,074
    Trains back to normal for this now, no engineering work.
    Still showing rail replacement to/from Billericay on National Rail ?
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Trains back to normal for this now, no engineering work.
    Still showing rail replacement to/from Billericay on National Rail ?
    They've changed it again, bastards

  • cafcjack
    cafcjack Posts: 2
    edited July 2012
    http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en&sessionID=TLJJP13P1_1220047187&requestID=1&tripSelector4=1&itdLPxx_view=detail&tripSelection=on&command=nop&calculateDistance=1
  • charltonaddickedmatt
    charltonaddickedmatt Posts: 1,257
    Going to this. My old ops manager at work is a Ipswich fan. Told him i'd meet up for a few beers, looking forward to it as i haven't done there ground yet
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,200
    Cambridge is definitely the long way round

    Billericay - Witham isnt that bad a journey but then again who wants to be a bus w*nker :)
    A bit of a pain having engineering works but only adds 40 mins to the journey. A good away trip though on the booze front.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,200
    Greater Anglia have now released their advance purchase ticktets

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