the dates for next years closure of the railway tunnel on the mainline between
london and norwich have been announced. the tunnel on the london side of
ipswich station will closed from 11th july 2004 until the 5th september
2004.
full details can be found on
the anglia railways website but the main bits of information are that buses
will run between ipswich and manningtree from where trains to london will be
running for the ipswich and stowmarket crowd. those unlucky enough to come from
diss or norwich have to go via cambridge which will be fun for all
concerned.
anglia are claiming that the run to manningtree will add around 30 minutes each
way to the journey but personally i would be budgetting an hour extra. just the
logistics of running enough buses between the stations at peak times will be
too much for anglia to handle. i am either going to rent in london for the
duration if i am still working in the city or, hopefully, not be affected by
the whole issue.
