Norfolk

By bus

National Express (http://www.nationalexpres...) is the principal operator of scheduled long distance coach services. These include:

NX308

from Birmingham to Norwich and Great Yarmouth via Coventry, Leicester, Peterborough, Wisbeach, King's Lynn, Swaffham and Dereham, once a day, six hours.

NX490

from London Victoria to Norwich via Stratford London and Thetford five times a day, taking approximately three hours.

NX496

from London Victoria to Cromer via Stratford London, Mildenhall, Brandon, Swaffham, Dereham, North Elmham, Fakenham, Holt and Sheringham, once a day, approximately five hours.

NX497

from London Victoria to Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth via Stratford London, Newmarket, Bury St Edmunds, Diss, and Gorleston-on-Sea, four times a day, taking four to five hours.

Connections to virtually all UK destinations are possible and reservations are recommended. Discounted advance purchase 'funfares' often available.

First Eastern Counties (http://www.firstgroup.com...) operate a number of regional services that link Norfolk with neighbouring counties, including:

Excel X1

from Peterborough railway station to Wisbeach, King's Lynn, Swaffham, Dereham, Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, as well as numerous towns and villages in between. Services operate every thirty minutes, and through train tickets are available for connection passengers at Peterborough as far east as Dereham.

By plane

Norfolk has one small airport with scheduled passenger services: Norwich International Airport (http://www.norwichairport...) airport code: NWI in the northern suburbs of Norwich. The off-shore oil and gas industry supports a busy helicopter service to North Sea oil platforms and a number of expensive regional services to cities related to the oil industry around the North Sea. KLM is the principal feeder airline at Norwich with four daily services to its international hub at Amsterdam Schipol. Scheduled airlines and destinations serving Norwich include:

Air SouthWest (http://www.airsouthwest.com/): Bristol

BMI Regional (http://www.flybmi.com/): Aberdeen

Eastern Airways (http://www.easternairways.com/): Aberdeen, Stornoway and Wick

FlyBe (http://www.flybe.com/): Chambery seasonal, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Geneva seasonal, Guernsey, Jersey, Manchester, Paris

KLM Cityhopper (http://www.klm.com/): Amsterdam

By train

The two principal routes in and out of Norfolk are the two railway lines that connect Norfolk with London:

Norwich

in the east of Norfolk is served by up to thirty-five daily services in each direction to and from London Liverpool Street station, via Stratford London, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich, Stowmarket and Diss. The journey takes about two hours, and is one of the few short distance routes left in Britain to still offer a full restaurant car service. A small number of additional direct services operate direct between London the east coast towns of Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. These services are all operated by National Express East Anglia. (http://www.nationalexpres...)

King's Lynn

in the west of Norfolk is served by hourly services to and from London King's Cross station, via Cambridge, Ely and Downham Market. The service is operated by First Capital Connect. (http://www.firstgroup.com/)

Additionally an east-west railway crosses the counties of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk connecting these two principal London - Norfolk rail routes. It runs from Peterborough to Norwich, via Ely, Thetford, Attleborough and Wymondham. Travellers from the north of England, the Midlands and the north-west can use the direct East Midlands Trains (http://www.eastmidlandstr...) service from Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Grantham and Peterborough which runs from Ely to Norwich. National Express East Anglia also operate an hourly train between Cambridge and Norwich.

By ship

There are no passenger ferry terminals in Norfolk, however frequent services are operated from the Hook of Holland to Harwich in Suffolk by Stena Line (http://www.stenaline.co.uk/).

In partnership with Stena Line and Nederlandse Spoorwegen Netherlands Railway, Greater Anglia Norfolk's principal rail operator promote and sell connecting train-ferry-train tickets from any station in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to any station in the Netherlands. Fares start at around £25 one way or £50 return. For more information on the 'Dutch Flyer' service see this link (http://www.onerailway.com...).

By car

Norfolk's principal attraction for many tourists is that it is not on the way to anywhere. The state of roads into Norfolk, relative to other counties in Britain reflects this, with a mix of dualled and non-dualled A roads carrying most people into the region. From London and places south of Norfolk, the M11, A11, A12 and A14 are the major trunk roads that lead towards and into the county. From the Midlands and North of England the A14, A11 and A47 are the principal routes.Norfolk County Council operates six purpose built Park and Ride sites, more than any other city in the UK, providing 4912 spaces, located on the main routes into Norwich city centre, seeNational Park and Ride Directory