More Trains From February 7th

Greater Anglia is adding more weekday services in anticipation of more people travelling after Plan B restrictions are lifted.

More trains will run on all the main routes into London Liverpool Street from Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford, Southend Victoria, Cambridge, Bishop’s Stortford and Hertford East.

The intercity service between Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester and London Liverpool Street will become half hourly for most of the day, only operating hourly for parts of the evening.

A normal regional weekday service will operate, including four additional peak services on the Norwich to Great Yarmouth line, which will be reinstated.

The Stansted Express service between London and Stansted Airport will continue with mostly two trains an hour but with three trains an hour at certain times.

The company has seen a steady increase in passenger numbers since the Government lifted Plan B restrictions – including removing work from home guidance – with numbers expected to grow in coming weeks as companies prepare to welcome workers back into offices.

Greater Anglia’s commuter numbers are expected to reflect widely reported changes to working patterns, with people doing a mixture of working from home and going into the office, and mid-week days being the most popular for travel.

Jamie Burles, Greater Anglia managing director, said: “We’re pleased to be to welcoming customers back, whether they’re travelling to work or school and college, or for a fun leisure trip. We’re aiming to match the number of services we run to the number of passengers using them.

“We’re asking passengers to continue to wear face coverings on our trains and stations, following government advice to wear them in busy places.

“We look forward to seeing more and more people travelling by train again over the months ahead and to providing the best possible service for them.”

Greater Anglia’s weekend timetable remains unchanged.