travel without going through london

sandraroffey

can any one help here?? does anyone know of a train route that will get me from bognor regis to ipswich, without having to go through london. long shot i know but i have been looking on the national rail site and it always comes up as via london. thanks for any help. and advice.xx

jamesbrownontheroad

sandraroffey wrote: »

can any one help here?? does anyone know of a train route that will get me from bognor regis to ipswich, without having to go through london. long shot i know but i have been looking on the national rail site and it always comes up as via london. thanks for any help. and advice.xx

Go to https://www.nationalrail.co.uk and instead of entering your search terms straight off the bat, click on 'Advanced Search'.

Then enter your search terms and select Avoid: London (all stations).

It's a minimum of five connections from what I can see, but all same-station platform-to-platform changes. I presume you want to avoid lengthy cross-London tube / bus transfers between stations?

daveyjp

Is it because you do not want to change stations in London?

You will be able to do something, but it will take you most of a day and will be a planning headache.

One option just looking at the railway map:

Bognor - Brighton to Bedford or Luton (this goes through London, but is a direct service) - Leicester - Norwich - Ipswich!

sandraroffey

that could all be a problem. hours and hours and round the houses. but thanks to you all.

maybe get into london victoria on the train and get the coach out, but seems pointless.

Comstock

What's the actual problem with crossing London?

Comstock

EDIT- ignore me

Comstock

OK this is the best I can do. Listen very carefully, I vill zay this only vonce.....

1) Get from Bognor to London St Pancras. It's two changes at Barnham and Three Bridges.

2) Change from St Pancras to Kings Cross. At least this avoids crossing London.

3) Kings Cross to Cambridge

4) Cambridge to Ipswich


Not perfect, but proberbly the best you can do under the cirumstances. If you tell me when you want to go, I'll get you a full set of times.


(I'm a former NRES operator from back when it was UK based....)

sandraroffey

wow. this looks better. nothingspecific set just yet but when it is i will get back to you on here. cant thank you enough.xxxx

and bring back british based train service helpers. please.xxxx

was trying to avoid multi changes on the underground. hate the underground at the best of times but several changes???? think you may have cracked it.