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National Express East Anglia Information

National Express East Anglia is a train operating company and brand name of London Eastern Railway Ltd in the United Kingdom. It is part of the National Express Group and was branded as ‘one’ from 1 April 2004 to 26 February 2008. It provides local, suburban and express services from Liverpool Street station in the City of London to destinations in the railway franchise known as the Greater Anglia network, stretching from north and east Greater London to Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk in East Anglia.

The area names from the former franchises were initially retained by the new franchise. However, all services other than Stansted Express were later branded simply ‘one’, reflecting the union of the five smaller franchises into one single franchise. This led to passenger confusion as they were unable to establish for example whether the announcer was saying the 07:20 "one" service would be delayed, or the 07:21 service. On 12 November 2007 it was announced that, as part of a company-wide re-branding exercise, National Express would change the name of the company to National Express East Anglia

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National Express East Anglia Service patterns

In off-peak times, there are three or four trains per hour to and from Kings Cross. The following details apply to weekday operations.

The franchise began on 1 April 2004 and is due to run until 31 March 2011. It combined the services previously operated by Anglia Railways, First Great Eastern and the West Anglia (WA) division of WAGN. The large franchise was created in order to improve efficiency and reliability as part of a move to reduce the number of train operating companies providing services from a single London terminal. As a result of the new franchise, the number of operators on the Great Eastern Main Line was reduced, with the company operating most services on the line.

Routes formally run by Anglia Trains

Intercity services to Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich as well as local services in Suffolk and Norfolk
Bittern Line (Norwich–Cromer–Sheringham)
Breckland Line (Norwich-Ely (continuing to Cambridge)
East Suffolk Line (Ipswich–Lowestoft)
Ely to Peterborough Line (Ely-Peterborough)
Felixstowe Branch Line (Ipswich–Felixstowe)
Ipswich to Ely Line (Ipswich-Bury St. Edmunds, continuing to Ely/Newmarket-Cambridge)
Wherry Lines (Norwich–Great Yarmouth / Lowestoft)

Routes formally run by Great Eastern

mainline services to Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich and Clacton-On-Sea
mainline ‘metro’ service London Liverpool Street-Shenfield
Upminster Branch Line (Romford–Upminster)
Shenfield to Southend Line (Shenfield-Southend Victoria)
Crouch Valley Line (Shenfield–Wickford–Southminster)
Braintree Branch Line (Witham–Braintree)
Gainsborough Line (Marks Tey–Sudbury)
Sunshine Coast Line (Colchester-Clacton or Walton-on-the-Naze)
Mayflower Line (Manningtree–Harwich)

Routes formally run by West Anglia

Lea Valley Lines (London to Seven Sisters / Tottenham / Chingford / Enfield / Cheshunt). Also services on the Hertford East Branch Line
local services from Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport
Stratford to Stansted Airport
West Anglia Main Line London – Harlow – Cambridge (and limited service to Kings Lynn)

National Express East Anglia Fleet

The company operates a fleet of Class 153, 156 and 170 DMUs for the local lines, with Class 315, 317, 321 and 360 EMUs for the mainline commuter services, and Class 90 locomotives with Mark 3 coaching stock for the intercity services.

Much of the rolling stock is in need of modernisation; class 150s have been replaced by 153s and 156s from Central Trains. The Class 170s are used predominantly on longer services, as they have slower acceleration than the Class 153 and 156 stock, meaning they cannot stick to the timetables of the many local lines.

As of 2008, the Class 360s are being debranded, and are wearing a lilac livery with white doors. The 'Great Eastern' vinyls are being taken off. The Class 315, Class 317 (those in the ‘one’ livery) and Mark 3 units are also being debranded- ‘one’ logos have been removed, and the distinctive "rainbow" car ends painted over with the same blue as the rest of the body, and more recently have an interim National Express East Anglia branding on, the same style as used on former GNER Mk3s and Mk4s.

The Government's rolling stock plan will see the franchise take on additional Class 321s from London Midland. National Express will also secure the order of new build EMUs for its services in West Anglia to Stansted Airport, which will allow the release of a number of Class 317 units.

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