Does anybody remember the Freedom of Anglia Rover?

[Old Yard Dog]

Can anybody help me as I am having a mental block? My missus is confident that we did the Harwich line in 1992, but I haven't coloured it in in my Baker. So I searched through my old ticket box and found a 7-day "Freedom of Anglia Rover" from 1992, a bargain at £29.50, and a contemporaneous saver from Chester to Peterborough.

From this I deduce that the now defunct FoA rover must have extended to Peterborough, unlike today's "Anglia Plus 3 in 7". My question is - did the Freedom of Anglia Rover also extend to Harwich Town (as I can't find a separate ticket for that line)? A second question is were there regular through workings from Ipswich to Harwich in 1992 or did nearly all the Harwich trains go from Manningtree?

 

[Ken H]

Yes. I managed to get one off the guard on a brum-ipswich train as I started at Nuneaton. Went all the way to Ipswich. then felixtowe, back to westerfield, then up to Lowestoft. Across to Norwich then back to peterborough and on to nuneaton.

 

[PeterC]

I remember using the 1970s incarnation for a "staycation" when SWMBO and I had a new mortgage. Back them it certainly did include the Harwich branch as we visited the branch. I can't remember if it went to Peterborough but I don't think that it did as we would probably have visited.