Day Return to Leyton Orient

Last updated : 17 January 2009 By Shrimpers24
TICKETS

£20 Adults, £13 seniors, students (with ID), under 16's and unemployed (with proff of benefit receipt.)

Calling on Saturday January 17 the box office informed TLG that tickets are still on sale for personal callers but at this stage will not be posted out. However, bookings will be taken and tickets picked up at the Matchroom Stadium on the night. Call 08444770077, there will be an additional £1.50 telephone booking fee.

At the moment Orient are not selling any tickets at the turnstile.

COACH

For the latest news, prices and pick-up points for the supporters club coaches click here: www.shrimperstrust.co.uk/default.asp?page_id=173

For an alternative journey keep up to date with SoL Travel at: www.theshrimpers-online.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=8

TRAIN & TUBE


The easiest of trips, especially for a midweek fixture.
On the Southend Victoria Line; change at Stratford for the eastbound Central Line and one stop to Leyton.


Regular 15 minute services getting up, taking under an hour, but from Stratford on the way home it's a 22 or 52 usually from Platform 10. Last train 00.22. (Well, there is a 1.27am but you've got lost if you end up on that one or been celebrating a famous victory a bit too much!)


For the
Southend Central Line; join the tube, (District/Metropolitan Line), at West Ham then change at Mile End for the eastbound Central line and two stops to Leyton.


4 trains an hour up during the late afternoon taking under 50 minutes. On the way home 22.19 might be pushing it from West Ham then 22.29 or 22.49 with the last train at 00.34.

An all-day Travelcard at £17.90 for adults is more expensive than usual as your travelling up in peak time and a pain as your paying a fiver over the cheap day return for not a lot of tube travel, one stop with the Stratford change. However, unless you are going making regular trips to the capital this is still the cost effective ticket to get to the game.


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The ground is then about a 1/4 of a mile away. Come out of the station and turn right down Leyton High Road. Cross over the road to the other side and continue down it. You will come to Coronation Gardens on your left and the floodlights of the ground can be clearly seen behind them. Take the next left past the gardens into Buckingham Road for the ground.


There will be the traditional long queue at Leyton station on the way back if you don't shoot off sharpish, try and avoid the horse shit, so give yourself thirty minutes to get to your train connection or grab a pint.


ROAD

Fill in the details from your home postcode to here for a full route plan www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp but for an edited version;

Approx. 34 miles. I hour 15 minutes.


Approaching London on the A127 join the A12 after Gallows Corner, follow the signpost Central London, Ilford, and at the Green Man interchange branch left, then at the Green Man Roundabout take the 1st exit onto the A11 (signposted Leytonstone). Turn right onto the A106 and after half a mile turn right onto the A112 into Leyton. Turn left onto Buckingham Road, then right onto Brisbane Road. Good luck with street parking and if it takes you under an hour and a quarter, well done.


FOOD AND DRINK


For the best choices for a decent pint and some good grub, and this is one of the better trips, go to the Pub Crawl in Orient here: www.thelittlegazette.com/news/loadsngl.asp?cid=EDW8

(Thanks to the Internet Ground Guide, http://www.footballgroundguide.com/leyton_orient/, and DoDtS's excellent Shrimperzone Away Travel section, www.shrimperzone.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=24, for their help in preparing this article.)