This page last modified on Sunday 26 September 2004
This trip presents a rare opportunity for you to ride the DEMU along the attractive 49-mile East Suffolk line from Ipswich to Lowestoft. This is a classic rural route, of which few have survived the last half-century of rationalisation.
Our tour starts at Hastings and picks up at the usual stations via Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, then at Sevenoaks, Bromley South and Kensington Olympia. We then travel around north London to Stratford before running along the Great Eastern main line via Chelmsford, Colchester and Ipswich.
From there we run via Diss to Norwich, our final destination. After a break of about three hours, we will commence our return journey by way of Lowestoft — the most easterly station in Britain — where we will make a short photographic stop. From Ipswich, we retrace our outward route back to Hastings.
These are the confirmed timings received from Network Rail.
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Travel at a seat with a table, with refreshments provided throughout the trip plus a meal with wine on the way home. Seating is likely to be in a DEMU trailer coach; payment of the additional £5 supplement assures travel in Tunbridge Wells power car.
A £5 supplement should be added to individual (not bay) fares for travel in power cars: Tunbridge Wells (Club Class), or Mountfield (Standard Class). Capacity is limited.
Our train includes a Buffet Car; a selection of hot & cold snacks and drinks will be available throughout the day at reasonable prices. There will also be a trolley service.
Smoking is not permitted in any part of our train.
Standard Class: A limited amount of seating is still available in all vehicles; please telephone […] to check availability and to make any booking at this late stage.
Club Class bookings have now closed, with every seat taken.
Postal and telephone bookings for this trip have now closed, and the trip has taken place.