A train kicks up the snow at Eccles. Photograph Simon Parker
Mark Shields
Saturday, January 19, 2013
2:12 PM
Bus and train services are running well across Norfolk and north Suffolk today, but passengers have been warned of possible minor delays to their journeys because of the weather.
Greater Anglia trains are still running a full schedule but engineering works are proceeding as planned, meaning changes to some services. The last train of the day from Ipswich to Norwich will be replaced by a bus service.
East Midlands Trains is also running a full service, but has reminded passengers to allow extra time getting to and from stations. Any passengers with tickets for use yesterday can carry them over and use them today.
Norwich Airport is open and all flights are scheduled to depart on time.
Anglian Bus is operating a full timetable apart from the following services:
004 - Not serving Shotesham
122 - Intwood only. No Brettingham Avenue
123 - No Thieves Lane or Salhouse Bell
124 - No Pilson Green and Burlingham Road only in South Walsham
165 - No Cambridge Road or Edmonton Close
587 - No estate or Poringland Church, bus turning at Bugdens roundabout
999 - No Mousehold Street and only picking up at first stop on Pettus Rd
Norfolk Green is running a full service apart from the Coasthopper not serving Burnham Overy Staithe, and the 10/11 service is not serving Princess Drive in Hunstanton.
Sanders Coaches is running a full timetable today as expected.
All Norfolk Park and Ride services are operating as normal.
First Buses has reinstated a number of full services, having previously been serving only main roads on Norwich services.
All buses in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft are operating as normal, and the X1 service is subject to only slight weather-related delays.
The amended Norwich services are:
Service 11/11A - Full route being operated from 9.30am, but will not serve Dragonfly Lane
Service 12 - Full route being operated from 9.30am.
Service 13/13A - Full route being operated from 9.30am.
Service 14/14A - Full route being operated from 9.30am but will not serve Thieves Lane in Salhouse.
Service 15/15A - Full route being operated from 9.30am.
Services 21/22 - Full route being operated from 1.30pm.
Service 23/23A (Lodge Farm via Dereham Road - City Centre - Heartsease via Salhouse Road, Woodside Road, Plumstead Road) - Terminating at Medical Centre Longwater Lane. Will not serve Norwich Road, West End, Long Water Lane, Costessey Estate or Lodge Farm.
Service 24/24A (Queens Hill main estate roundabout - City Centre - Thorpe Sainsbury’s via St Williams Way) - Will not serve Queens Hills further than the main roundabout and the Thorpe St Andrew estate.
Service 25/25A - Full route being operated from 1.30, but cannot serve Northfields, de Hague Road or North Park Avenue because they are too dangerous for buses to operate.
Service 28 - Full route being operated from 10.30am
Service 29/29A - Full route being operated from 1.30pm
Service 36 - Full route being operated from 10.30am
Service 37 - Full route being operated from 10.30am
Service 38 - Full route being operated from 10.30am
Service 39 - Full route being operated from 10.30am
To read a forecast from Weatherquest’s Chris Bell, follow the link to the top right of this article. Alternatively, to access Weatherquest’s twice-daily podcasts, visit the www.edp24.co.uk homepage and follow the link.
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1 comments
Still cant work out why the buses arn't serving norwich road costessey Its clear and I've seen plenty of big lorries using it get a grip first
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david106
Saturday, January 19, 2013