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London to Norwich Fares

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Felix A

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Towards the end of 2018 I was looking at London to Norwich fares on Trainline and it looked like you could get advance singles for £10 each. Now it seems to want me to buy an off peak return for £56.70 . These tickets I'm looking at are for the 9th of Feb and I've looked at fares for 9th March and they look the same. Can someone explain what has gone on / am I doing everyting completely incorrectly.

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Felix
 
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On 9 Feb I can see £10 fares on the 0458 and 1933.
 
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Engineering works between Liverpool Street & Romford on the 9th February might be affecting the advances?

9th March the line is closed between Liverpool Street & Shenfield
 
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Kite159 said:
Engineering works between Liverpool Street & Romford on the 9th February might be affecting the advances?

9th March the line is closed between Liverpool Street & Shenfield
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Kite159 is correct. The Advance fares are only valid on Greater Anglia services. So you need a journey that is GA all the way, despite the engineering work. That applies for the Norwich - Shenfield (GA train), Shenfield - Newbury Park (GA rail replacement bus), Newbury Park - London Liverpool St "transfer" (London Underground, but an Advance ticket is valid on these too). It also applies to Norwich - Ely - London Liverpool St journeys when all the legs are on GA, but quite often they involve CrossCountry or EMT or GTR, so GA advances are not available on these. I suspect that quite a lot of Advance availability has been removed too.
 
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Trainsplit is suggesting a flexible ticket to Ingatestone, and then an Advance from there to Norwich.
 
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ok thank you everyone for the quick replies. I'll try some other dates and other websites and let you know how I get on. Though I did have a llok at 9th March and it seems to be the same situation there. Is this as a result of more engineering works?
 
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And since nobody else’s mentioned it, don’t use Trainline! They charge booking fees on most journeys which you won’t pay booking direct with Greater Anglia or indeed any other train company, and sell the exact same fares.
 
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island said:
And since nobody else’s mentioned it, don’t use Trainline! They charge booking fees on most journeys which you won’t pay booking direct with Greater Anglia or indeed any other train company, and sell the exact same fares.
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Exactly. On top of that the ticket booking part of the Greater Anglia website is a branded version of the Trainline so will be exactly the same.
 
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