East Coast nightmare diversions on 5th November!

[Malton Seadog]

Further to my last post regarding arriving back in the UK at Stansted and booking advanced tickets - I decided to play it safe and booked the first part of my return journey home to Doncaster.

I leave Stansted at 18:25 and arrive at Peterborough at 19:10. Great - thinks I. Now all I need to do is book the short hour-long leg back up to Doncaster.

Sadly - I overlooked quite severe engineering works on the ECML. The Peterborough to Doncaster stretch is scheduled to take over 2 and a half hours, and will be diverted via Lincoln and I believe Newark (before reversing back out towards Lincoln again...).

So - my question is - Peterborough to Doncaster by any other route? Possible or not worth the hassle? I'd rather not get home at 11pm when I'm at work the next morning...

 

[sonic2009]

You could go Peterborough - Leicester - Sheffield - Doncaster but that would take longer!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

You could go Peterborough - Leicester - Sheffield - Doncaster but that would take longer!

Having checked the routeing guide, the only permitted routes I can see are via the ECML or via Lincoln...

 

[sonic2009]

Having checked the routeing guide, the only permitted routes I can see are via the ECML or via Lincoln...

I knew that i was mentioning another way that the OP could take using Advance Tickets

 

[ainsworth74]

Assuming that you have a Peterborough to Doncaster ticket then the valid routes are:

1. Direct trains from Peterborough to Doncaster
2. Mapped Routes
   Peterborough - Doncaster:
   • EE
   • ER

The maps show that basically only permitted routes are via the ECML or those that travel via Lincoln. So on a [stn]PBO[/stn] to [stn]DON[/stn] ticket you don't really have any other options.

 

[sonic2009]

Malton Seadog are you looking for Advance Fares or Walk Up Fares?
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Further to my last post regarding arriving back in the UK at Stansted and booking advanced tickets - I decided to play it safe and booked the first part of my return journey home to Doncaster.

I leave Stansted at 18:25 and arrive at Peterborough at 19:10.

The 1825 arrives in Peterborough at 1950..

Giving you the 2037 arriving Doncaster 2312

If you did travel via Alternative Route going via Leicester you would get in at 2251 so really only 20mins saving!

 

[yorkie]

A through fare of £18.45 is available from Stansted [SSD] to Doncaster [DON], depart 1825 arrive Doncaster 2312. Specifying "avoid Chesterfield". It's marginally cheaper splitting as the 1825 from SSD to Peterborough alone is £6 and from there, the 2037 to DON alone is £11.25. Prices shown are as on EC website, but with web discount. Earlier trains are about half the price of the 2037 for some reason.

 

[Malton Seadog]

Thanks all.

Forgot to mention I have a 16-25 railcard, and I've only bought the Stansted-Peterborough so far at a whopping £3.25!

I'm considering staying over on the Saturday in Peterborough and going back Sunday...

 

[amarkr]

I share your pain as was intending to travel home on the last east coast train from London that night (and it is not even listed at the moment). To avoid uncertainty of how long it will take or whether it will even run, I am going to slouch up the MML (in first class as its only going to cost an extra £2!).
Had a quick look and the advance fares are not yet available for the sunday and I wonder if they are considering continuing the engineering work into the next day? If so, it might be just as well to get on home on saturday night!

It turns out the last trains from KingsX is 20.00 to Newcastle and 19.30 to Leeds, so very glad I booked the later train from St Pancras.
The Leeds train takes a stagering 4h 16 and is overtaken by the 19.55 MML departure and Doncaster can be got to quicker than the 20.00 with a change between Derby and Sheffield onto a following XC train.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

...and will be diverted via Lincoln and I believe Newark (before reversing back out towards Lincoln again...).

A thought here: Do these trains reverse and call at Lincoln twice en route from Peterborough to Doncaster or do they use the very rare curve from Boutham junction to Pyewipe Junction after the Newark call...??

 

[mm333]

The blockade is between Newark and Grantham, so there'd be no need to do the Boultham-Pyewipe curve.

Newcastle-London trains will probably be going Doncaster-Gainsborough-Lincoln-Sleaford-Spalding-Peterborough.

Leeds-London trains will probably be going Leeds-Doncaster-Retford-Newark-(reverse)-Lincoln-Sleaford-Spalding-Peterborough.

Hull Trains are keeping their calls at Grantham, so look like they're going Doncaster-Retford-Newark-(reverse)-Lincoln-Sleaford-(reverse)-Grantham-Peterborough.

Not sure what GC will be doing.