Stansted Express to return to four trains per hour

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• Peter says:

  18 Sep18 September 07:05

  “Unexpected touches” somehow reeks of involuntary sarcasm, along the lines of, so how will you disappoint me today?
  I wonder if it’s always graphic designers who text the marketing blurbs?

  • Dubious says:

    18 Sep18 September 09:00

    Sounds like they’ll be installing Japanese toilets! Either that or they’ll be some new hashtag movements!

• X2000traveller says:

  18 Sep18 September 07:30

  And the Hamptons are a pretty uneven bunch as well.

  Sounds like this is essentially a Hamton minus the hot breakfast items (which are normally v basic).

• ChasP says:

  18 Sep18 September 07:48

  As there are around 20 flights scheduled to land after 23:00 inct the last at 23:50
  How many passengers a day will miss the last train ?

  • Dubious says:

    18 Sep18 September 09:10

    I read the times in the article as the period of 15-minute frequency, rather than for all operations.

    The last train is currently scheduled to depart the airport at 23:59. I suspect (but maybe wrong – find out tomorrow) that there will be a subsequent train at 00:30 the next day.

    We don’t know for sure yet because the timetable for Monday 11 December is not released until tomorrow.

    • John says:

      18 Sep18 September 09:16

      The working timetables are up and there is a train at 0030

  • SamG says:

    18 Sep18 September 09:27

    Stansted also has a healthy set of coach operators and at that time of night there will likely be no traffic and the coach will drop you in London in a variety of locations which are likely more convenient for where you need to be than Liverpool St anyway.

    I usually used the coach for these dead early/late flights when I was a youngster (and Luton!)

    • ADS says:

      18 Sep18 September 14:17

      yes, when you just miss a train, and it’s a 30 minutes wait … usually quicker to check the National Express departures

    • Londonsteve says:

      26 Sep26 September 10:41

      Not only that but during the early hours the coach is virtually as fast as the train. The Stansted Express is a one trick pony: not very express services to Liverpool Street and Tottenham Hale (only useful if the tube is running or you live close to the station).

• Chris R says:

  18 Sep18 September 08:02

  Perhaps Hilton should focus on improving consistency across their core brand first. Genuinely put off booking Hilton’s these days as I’m never sure as to the standard of the hotel

  • JDB says:

    18 Sep18 September 08:52

    All hotel brands need to pay more attention to their existing hotels, but the real focus currently is on more new brands/hotels so bad owners let hotels deteriorate and just rely on the brand. It will come back to Vite the brands eventually but currently it’s guests suffering. Marriott is seemingly the least bad with a certain element of discipline, but still not really very serious. Hotel owners get caught out on this when they seek to sell the hotel/transfer the contract when the brands will insist upon corrective measures where necessary before consenting.

• The Original David says:

  18 Sep18 September 08:04

  Is the “Stansted Express” different from the regular Greater Anglia services, or are normal tickets (inc Railcards etc) valid on both?

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    18 Sep18 September 08:36

    Normal tickets valid. It just stops at fewer stations.

  • John says:

    18 Sep18 September 09:02

    It’s just some words painted on the side of the train. Legally and operationally there is no difference from any other GA service/route

    • ADS says:

      18 Sep18 September 14:16

      but price wise it’s very different !

      21 quid for 47 minutes !

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  18 Sep18 September 08:27

  I was in Liverpool Street on Friday getting the train to Harwich for the boat to Holland and I noticed the Stansted Express was leaving from the high numbered platforms when they always used to leave from the low numbered platforms. I don’t know if that was a one off or typical now.

  • John says:

    18 Sep18 September 09:13

    If you’re talking about the 1840 LST-SSD on Friday, it is normally scheduled for platform 5, but that was blocked (by a failed train?) so it was routed into platform 12

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      18 Sep18 September 09:52

      That’s likely the one

• modestpointscollector says:

  18 Sep18 September 09:41

  The biggest issue with issue with the Stansted express is that it part of track seems to have faults on it constantly. I commute regularly on the Norwich line out of Liverpool St. which doesn’t seem to have nearly as many issues for some reason. We had a work colleague who used it (or tried to) regularly and he’s been stranded at Stansted or Liverpool St on a number of occasions, and had to catch an emergency Uber or try and bundle onto the National Express coach just to try and get home, and sometimes he’s just been stuck in London. Not sure if anyone has any figures but it puts me off using it as it’s just not that reliable.

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