Greater Anglia has announced it will be running additional trains before and after Sunday’s East Anglian derby against Norwich City at Portman Road.

Prior to the match the additional services are:

07:20 Norwich to Ipswich, calling at Diss and arriving in Ipswich at 07:58
08:15 Norwich to Ipswich, calling at Diss and arriving in Ipswich at 08:57
09:08 Norwich to Ipswich, calling at Diss and arriving in Ipswich at 09:46
10:30 Norwich to Ipswich, calling at Diss and arriving in Ipswich at 11:08

After the match:

14:25 Ipswich to Norwich, calling at Diss and arriving in Norwich at 15:07
15:10 Ipswich to Norwich, calling at Diss and arriving in Norwich at 15:52

The normal scheduled hourly Sunday service between Norwich and Ipswich will also be operating.

“We know this match is very important to thousands of our customers, which is why we are running additional trains,” James Steward, area customer service manager for Greater Anglia, said.

“We always want to support large local events where possible and make it easy for people to travel to by train.

“Trains will run with the maximum number of carriages. Our new trains are longer and have more seats. However, we would ask everyone to be patient while boarding as we are expecting very high passenger numbers on these services.”

Photo: Blair Ferguson

flykickingbybgunn added 17:16 - Sep 29 Dont care about the Lowestoft to Ipswich trains then ? Last time they was standing room only after Brampton. This was added to at Halesworth and Darsham. Then the train went straight through Saxmundham, Wickham, Melton and Woodbridge without stopping because they were already full. You have been warned.
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Ipswich1970 added 17:35 - Sep 29 The wife has messaged Greater Anglia direct, to whinge about this. They clearly do not care about Ipswich fans from Lowestoft. They have replied & the feedback is going to their Train Planning Team.
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dyersdream added 18:06 - Sep 29 What about trains from essex !
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EatonBlue added 18:28 - Sep 29 The Head of Greater Anglia in Norwich is a Norwich fan.
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Writtleblue added 18:56 - Sep 29 The train from Chelmsford stopped at Colchester and then buses, hope that doesn't happen next week.
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Edmundo added 19:03 - Sep 29 It'd be good if they actually thought about this every home match for Town (and the other team in Anglia's area): one or two extra carriages would ease the crush and add revenue. I just don't get why services like this aren't nimble enough to think of it.
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Roystontown added 20:03 - Sep 29 So just the usual Mumbai express from Cambridge then
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philpott2 added 10:09 - Sep 30 Baldock/Royston to Cambridge, then Cambridge to Ipswich getting more packed as we go (infrequent that they are). Then carnage to return, way too few carriages and trains!
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