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National Express East Anglia First Class, thetrainline.com and raileasy.com

2008-07-03

For the past year I have been travelling standard class to Norwich on National Express East Anglia to get to City College to work on RUGroom. This morning I am catching the (surprise surprise, late running) 7.07 from Witham to Norwich and might miss my connection for the last part of my journey to Great Yarmouth. Anyway, booking the tickets for the trip yesterday from thetrainline.com it was more cost effective for me to travel First Class on the way up, and Standard on the way back. The ticket I have for this trip (which National Express will nodoubt check the usual four times they seem to inspect) cost £16 First Class as opposed to over £20 Standard Class purchased at the station (no standard tickets were available for this train on thetrainline.com, I guess the few limited discount tickets had already sold. The return journey standard ticket has cost me £6.00, bargain. This is the first time I have used thetrainline.com for a long time after it became virtually impossible to explain a ticketing error to various representatives in a thetrainline.com oversees call centre by phone. Thetrainline.com might be a cost effective way to buy train tickets cheap, so long as you make no cha…

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