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Greater Anglia and Network Rail staff complete Three Peaks By Rail Challenge for charity
Greater Anglia and Network Rail staff complete Three Peaks By Rail Challenge for charity Four hardy Greater Anglia and Network Rail colleagues joined forces to raise more than £5,000 for charity by completing the Three Peaks By Rail Challenge.
Greater Anglia adds braille stickers to smartcards for visually impaired customers
Train operator Greater Anglia has been offering free braille stickers for visually impaired customers’ smartcards ahead of World Braille Day, which takes place today. The clear braille stickers can be applied to Greater Anglia smartcards, and allow customers, including those who have sight difficulties, to differentiate between cards in their wallets.
Train operator creates online virtual tours to improve accessibility for disabled customers
Train operator Greater Anglia has launched online virtual tours for its entire new train fleet that are particularly aimed at helping disabled customers who are wanting to check how accessible their journey is. A first for the rail industry, the virtual train tours have been designed for all of Greater Anglia’s new train types to support journey planning, give customers a clearer picture of what they can expect on board and reduce anxiety about travelling.
Rail Strike Travel Advice | Greater Anglia
If you’re a monthly or longer Season ticket holder, or activated a Flexi Season pass for a strike day, you can claim a strike day back if you decided not to travel with Delay Repay. Please select the ‘Did Not Travel’ option when filling in your claim. You’ll just need to tell us the outward portion of your trip only (not return journey) to claim a full day of your ticket. If your journey is delayed on the day after a strike day, you can claim Delay Repay compensation in the usual way.
Britain’s most easterly bus stop
Sunday 5th September 2021 I visited Britain’s northernmost bus stop in July 2018. It’s on Unst, the furthest north island in the Shetland archipelago, in the small hamlet of Valsgarth. It was a great trip. I turned my attention southwards in 2019 and visited Lizard Point in August that year to check out Britain’s most southerly bus stop. It was another great trip.
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Greater Anglia Opens New Sidings
© Greater Anglia The biggest infrastructure project in Greater Anglia’s history, the Norwich Victoria sidings, are now fully operational. Greater Anglia has opened new sidings outside of Norwich to help store its new trains when they are not running. They are located adjacent to the mainline and feature four new tracks. There is sufficient space to store up to four 12-car trains. Greater Anglia parked its first train in the sidings on 3 March.
Piano hits the right notes at Norwich railway station
Passengers using Norwich railway station have been treated to some musical delights while travelling, after a customer donated a piano. Ross Garden, who runs Hurn Chemist on Unthank Road in Norwich, kindly donated a piano, which now stands near WH Smith on the concourse. Mr Garden got in touch and offered the piano after seeing similar successful schemes at airports and rail stations across the world.
Why don’t rails get hot in Europe?
The truth is, they do! However, in countries which have been traditionally hotter than ours, rails are stressed to be able to withstand higher temperatures. Rails in the UK are stressed to 27 degrees, the UK mean summer rail temperature. The rail can withstand some degree of change in temperature either side of this.
Service Disruption Wickford-Southminster
Due to engineering works not being finished on time between Southminster and Wickford the line is closed. Disruption is expected until 07:30 26/06. Train services between Wickford and Southminster have been suspended. The Southminster to Wickford service has been suspended due to incomplete track repair work.
Record passenger numbers on Suffolk’s rural rail lines
As the second Suffolk Day approaches, Greater Anglia has revealed figures showing that over the last five years 15% more people in the county are using their local rail lines. Record numbers travelled on Greater Anglia’s East Suffolk Lines train services last year, with the lines recording their highest ever number of passengers.
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Due to a major track fault at London Liverpool Street station, preventing the operation of trains into two platforms, there will be alterations to some Greater Anglia peak services for the rest of this week, up to and including Friday 15 June.
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Due to a major track fault at London Liverpool Street station, preventing the operation of trains into some platforms, it is likely that there will be alterations to some Greater Anglia peak services on Monday 11 June. Plans are due to be finalised this evening, but some services on the routes from Norwich, Ipswich, Harwich, Clacton, Braintree, Colchester, Chelmsford, Southminster and Southend to London are expected to be affected. Off peak services are scheduled to run as normal.
Travel all the way into London by train for many summer weekends
It’s possible to travel all the way into London by train from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex for most weekends in the summer. From Saturday 11 June, Network Rail is pausing engineering works on the mainline at weekends for much of the summer. Jamie Burles, Greater Anglia managing director said: “We want to make sure customers know when there isn’t engineering works on our lines so they can take advantage of faster travel into London by train.
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