Train operator Greater Anglia is advising customers planning to attend Remembrance Day events to plan ahead and check before they travel.
For military personnel and veterans attending Remembrance events the special travel arrangements are as follows:
Remembrance Services in London (10 November) and outside London (10 November) – Free travel for serving members of the Armed Forces and Forces Veterans to attend an official ceremony only).
Scotty’s Little Soldiers – children who have lost a parent in the Armed Forces. They will be given free tickets to allow them to travel (to London on 8/9 November, returning on 9-11 November).
Free travel will be offered to serving military personnel and veterans attending the Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph on Sunday 10 November.
For those attending the Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph, free travel is allowed to any London Terminal station on either Saturday 9 or Sunday 10 November and returning from any London Terminal on Sunday 10 November only.
As in previous years, free return travel to attend a Service of Remembrance outside of London will be offered on Sunday 10 November only.
This offer is open to serving military personnel and veterans.
Free travel is allowed for current serving Armed Forces personnel in uniform or serving military personnel and veterans on production of the following:
a current MOD90 Ministry of Defence-issued identity card (see examples below);
a Veterans Railcard, Veterans Oyster card, Ministry of Defence-issued Veterans ID or other form of identification showing the customer is a veteran (e.g. proof of pension).
