Re: East Suffolk Line through to London yesterday

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:31:32 GMT, Jon Combe <joncombe@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:47:26 -0500, David Jackman wrote:
>> The V Festival was taking place near Chelmsford over the weekend,
>> generating a lot of extra passengers.  There are capacity problems
>> between London and Chelsmford on some of the Lowestoft services already:
>> with all these extra passengers a three car set risks being hopelessly
>> overcrowded.
>>
>> Details currently on the NXEA site linked off
>>
>> http://www.nationalexpresseastanglia.com/tickets_timetables/
>service_updates
>> /v_festival_liverpool_street_chelmsford_ipswich__1
>>
>> (link will split and page will probably be deleted by Monday)
>>
>> Saturdays timetable shows some Lowestoft services running normally
>> (e.g.07.38), some replaced by an extra train Liv St-Colchester and the
>> main train running non/limited-stop (11.38 retimed 11.46) and others
>> replaced by a connection (09.38, 13.38, 18.58 return) - though in each
>> case the connection is shown to "make".
>
>Thanks for the information David. There were posters at Liverpool Street
>regarding the V festival but simply stating there were 6 trains per hour
>provided and listing the times, but no mention of the impact this had on
>the Lowestoft services. I was on the 09:38 from Liverpool Street and it
>very definitely did not make the connection!
>
>I'm a little puzzled as to why this should impact the service heading
>south though given the festival was I believe a 2 day affair? The service
>I was on (16:58 from Lowestoft) is listed as going through to London even
>on this revised schedule,but did not do so, terminating at Ipswich and
>passengers directed onto the 18:42 from Ipswich instead.
>
Some people only go to V for 1 day rather than camping out for the 2
days. Returning to London there was a service of 8-car 321s about
every 10mins until the early morning. As David said a 3-car 170
interspersed with that wouldn't have been able to cope.  I went
through Liv St on Saturday and it was manic - they had loads of RPIs
sitting at trestle tables outside the booking office to supplement the
main booking office windows (it didn't help that 3 windows were closed
for refurbishment and glas removal).
--
Ken
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