National Express: odd new route from Norfolk to London

[jamesontheroad]

Hello all. Planning a trip from Swaffham in Norfolk down to London in August, and the journey planner on the National Express website is returning a new or unusual route...

Normally I'd expect to see the only daily service to London operated by the 496 Cromer > Fakenham > Swaffham > Mildenhall > Stratford > Victoria route (pdf timetable). I'd have thought this would be doubly useful because it passes by the Olympic site.

Instead, the only option is a route I've not seen before and which doesn't appear in the timetable, listed as SH (Shuttle) 012. It runs via Cambridge and Bow into Victoria, skipping Stratford. Is this a new route, or an Olympic diversion? And if so, why divert away from the Olympics?

Thanks!

 

[ATW Alex 101]

It will be bedlum around the olympic area !

 

[Deerfold]

The 012 is a once-a-day extension of the normal hourly 010 Cambridge Service:

http://qube.harlow-college.ac.uk/file.php/479/bus_passenger_news.pdf

 

[jamesontheroad]

The 012 is a once-a-day extension of the normal hourly 010 Cambridge Service:

http://qube.harlow-college.ac.uk/file.php/479/bus_passenger_news.pdf

How odd. Never heard of it. Is it just for the duration of the Olympics? I can't find it on other dates.