Buy or Renew

Buy your first Season Ticket

  • You can buy your season ticket online and can also put your season ticket on a Greater Anglia Smart Card .
  • If you are purchasing a Season Ticket for the first time, you will need a photo card. Simply take a passport-type photograph of yourself to any Greater Anglia ticket office where we'll issue this for you free of charge.
  • Children may be required to provide proof of age.
  • Please note that many Season Tickets issued for travel within Norfolk and Suffolk, and north and east of Cambridge are issued as zonal "Anglia Plus" seasons. These are not available for purchase online. You can purchase weekly, monthly and annual Anglia Plus seasons from any staffed station. You can also purchase weekly Anglia Plus tickets from the conductor aboard our rural services in Norfolk and Suffolk.

Buy Season Tickets online

Renewing your Season Ticket

If you currently hold an annual Season Ticket and require to renew it, you can usually do so up to seven days in advance of when your new one needs to start (provided there is no break in continuity).

  • Log into your account and then renew your Season Ticket online.
  • Alternatively, pop into your nearest station ticket office.
  • You will need to have your photocard ID number.

Renew your Season Ticket

How far in advance can I buy or renew my Season Ticket?

For purchases at a station, there are restrictions as to how far in advance you can buy your Season Ticket. This depends on whether the ticket is valid for a week or for a month or more and on whether or not there will be a break in continuity - or if it is the first time you have bought this ticket. These rules are set nationally and apply to all Train Companies.

New tickets or renewals following a break of continuity

7-Day Seasons and Travelcards

A ticket may be issued:

  • On the start date.
  • If the start date is a Monday (or a Tuesday after a Bank Holiday), the ticket may be issued from 0600 hours on the previous Sunday.

Period Seasons and Travelcards (including Annual and Gold Cards)

  • If the start date is a Saturday, Sunday or Monday (also Tuesday after a Bank Holiday), the ticket may be issued from noon on the previous Friday.
  • If the start date is another day, the ticket may be issued after noon on the previous day.

Renewals – where the current ticket is SURRENDERED with NO BREAK OF CONTINUITY

7-Day Seasons and Travelcards

A ticket may be issued:

  • If the start date is a Sunday or Monday (or Tuesday after a Bank Holiday), the ticket may be issued from noon on the previous Friday.
  • If the start date is another day, the ticket may be issued after noon on the previous day.

Period Seasons and Travelcards (including Annual and Gold Cards):

  • The ticket may be issued any time up to SEVEN DAYS in advance.

Over the Christmas and New Year holiday period these rules are generally relaxed. Please enquire at your local staffed station.

Payment by cheque

Greater Anglia (along with many other Train Companies) no longer accept personal cheques as a way of paying for railway tickets.

We still however accept company cheques (excluding those where the signatory is 'Trading As', 'T/As' or any other derivatives). Cheques should be made payable to "Abellio East Anglia Limited" and are accepted subject to the following conditions.

Paying by Business Cheque with no preprinted company logo and address on the cheque – just the logo of the bank

You will need to:

  1. Supply a piece of original headed paper with the cheque which is applicable to the company where the cheque originates. This must include a verifiable company address.
  2. And present one of the following forms of ID applicable to the actual ticket holder (these must be originals – not copies) and include the ticket holder's home address:
    1. Original utility bill dated within the last six months
    2. Bank statement from within the last six months
    3. Driving licence
    4. Current rent agreement or council tax bill
    5. Official notification of tax code change from HM Revenue & Customs

Paying by Business Cheque with a preprinted company logo and address applicable to the company from which the money is being drawn

You will need to:

  1. Be prepared to supply a verifiable company address which will be written on the reverse of the cheque.
  2. Be prepared to supply the name and address of the actual ticket holder which will be written on the reverse of the cheque.

Other ways to pay

We still accept cash and debit/credit cards as our main ways of payment for rail travel.