LINCOLN CITY V IPSWICH TOWN SUNDAY 29 DECEMBER 2019, KICK OFF 15:00 Information in this guide is correct as at 12 December. Any updated information on this fixture will be published on the club website (www.itfc.co.uk), twitter (@IpswichTown and @ITFC_Tickets) and facebook (www.facebook.com/officialitfc). INFORMATION FOR TOWN FANS We travel to Lincoln City on Sunday 29 December in League One. The following guide has been produced for Town fans making the trip to the newly named LNER Stadium. This is based on information on the Lincoln City website plus additional information specific to this game. It also helps that we were there very recently, in our FA Cup 1st Round replay. For any further information, please contact Elizabeth Edwards, Supporter Liaison Officer on [email protected] or (+44) (0) 7968 876504 or on Twitter at @ITFC_SLO. Lincoln City information for visiting fans Address: Lincoln City Football Club, LNER Stadium, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8LD Website: https://www.weareimps.com/ Phone number: 01522 880011 Email Addresses: [email protected] or [email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lincolncityfc/ Twitter: @LincolnCity_FC Supporter Liaison Officers: Alan Long, Heidi Langham, Kevin Morley, Paul Pyrah, Lindsay Warwick – email: [email protected] Disability Liaison Officer: [email protected] The Lincoln away supporters guide can be found here: https://www.weareimps.com/siteassets/club/away-supporters- guide/bp_lincolncity_visitingsupportersguide-v8-23-07-19.pdf www.footballgroundguide.com provides some information here: https://www.footballgroundguide.com/leagues/england/league-one/sincil-bank-lincoln-city.html We have picked out the key information for Town fans below and added other material based on our own experience of visiting the LNER Stadium and information that is specific to our fans. Specific information for Town fans: Ticket news Tickets for the game are £26 for adults, £22 for seniors 60+ and U22s and £11 for U18s. Subject to availability, tickets can be purchased from www.itfcdirect.com (under tickets/away matches) or in Planet Blue on a non-matchday or at the Ticket Office on Constantine Road on a home matchday. Note that a designated area has been allocated to supporters who are less able to stand for prolonged periods. If you wish to be in this area you should call the ticket office on 03330 050503. Note that tickets will be subject to availability. Disabled fans requiring tickets should contact ITFC’s Disability Liaison Officer Lee Smith on 01473 400556 or by email on [email protected]. Please note that the tickets display a kick-off time of 15:00 - 17:00. If you have a concession ticket it will appear that kick-off is at 17:00. We can confirm that the game will kick-off at 15:00. Travelling to Lincoln Supporters Coach Official coach travel for this is game is sold out. There will be no further coaches added. If you are booked on a coach these will leave Portman Road promptly at 09:40 (please be at Portman Road at least 15 minutes before this). Coaches are estimated to arrive back at Portman Road at 21:00. Pick-ups at Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket can be arranged for this game. If you want to organise a pick-up please call the Ticket Enquiries Team on 03330 050503 or email [email protected]. Your details will then be passed onto the coach company, Suffolk Norse. Note that all official coaches are non-smoking and the consumption of alcohol on board is strictly forbidden. ITFC recommend that all supporters under 16 are accompanied by an adult. Car The long-term roadworks on the A14 (several miles either side of Cambridge) are resulting in evening and weekend road closures. These are not normally announced until just a day or two in advance. We recommend that you keep an eye on @A14C2H on Twitter – any closures are announced here. The Sat Nav postcode for the stadium is LN5 8LD. From Ipswich take the A14 to the A1. We have read that an 8-mile stretch of the new road has been opened, leading up to the A1 – if you follow a satnav, please bear in mind that it is likely to get very confused, and make sure you follow the road signs instead! From the A1 take the A46 towards A17 / Sleaford / Lincoln / Newark. At the Hykeham Roundabout take the 3rd exit onto the Newark Road / A1434. After about 3 miles the road becomes St Catherines (A1434) and then St Catherines (A15). At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto High Street / B1262. Turn right onto Scorer Street and right again onto Cross Street. The stadium is at the end of Cross Street. This route will take you to the LNER Stadium. You may want to use a Sat Nav postcode for parking, though (see parking below). As noted above there are major long-term roadworks on the A14 for several miles either side of Cambridge, with a 40mph limit policed by cameras. Google maps indicates a typical travel time of around 3 hours but warns that it can take up to 4 hours depending on travel conditions. Roads maybe busy being the holiday period. An alternative route is via the A14 / A1088 / A1066 / A134 / A10 and A17. You will join the A15 from the A17 and when you reach St Catherines follow the instructions above. This route takes around 3 hours to 3 hours 50 minutes. The third option is the A14 / A142 / A10 /A1101 and the A17 to the A15. The route has a similar journey time to the second route. We generally recommend allowing at least an hour beyond the AA / Google / SatNav suggested journey time. Parking There is no parking for away fans at the stadium. Lincoln City suggest the South Common Car Park (LN5 8LN) which is pay on the day at a cost of £4. This car park is only a 5-10 minute walk from the stadium with parking available for 250 cars. Note that this car park is not available at all home games – we will try to advise if this is not the case for this game. There is also a special parking deal for home and away fans at City of Lincoln Council car parks (except Lincoln Central Car Park) on match days. When parking, use the PayByPhone app and use the special code 801323 (not the one on display in the car park itself) to receive a discounted rate of just £4.25 from 8am until midnight on a match-day. You can walk from any of these car parks (Tentercroft Street is the closest) via High Street, Scorer Street, and Cross Street to reach the stadium. To find out about more car parks in Lincoln at www.visitlincoln.com/carparks. www.footballgroundguide.com comments that if you follow the signs for ‘away coaches’ this leads to the A158 South Park Avenue, where there is plenty of street parking. This is around a ten-minute walk to the ground. Disabled Supporters Parking Supporters with disabilities should contact the Lincoln Ticket Office by calling 01522 880011 or by emailing [email protected]. Alternatively, contact ITFC’s Disability Liaison Officer Lee Smith on 01473 400556 or by email on [email protected]. Train Note 1: If you are intending on travelling via London, buses replace trains between Ingatestone and Newbury Park. Note 2: Also note that, at the time of writing this guide, all train services between Ipswich and Peterborough are suspended, with no indication as to when they may be reinstated. We have produced this guide based on the normal timetable, but warn that this may not be valid. Please check that your planned services are operating, or that alternative services via Cambridge will make required connections. Lincoln Central train station is on the East Coast, East Midlands and Northern train routes. With the game being on a Sunday there are limited options by train. It is possible to get to Lincoln cross-country with one train indicated on www.greateranglia.co.uk getting to Lincoln in time for the game. This train leaves Ipswich at 09:55. With changes at Peterborough and Grantham, you arrive in Lincoln at 13:25. After the game there is a train from Lincoln at 18:00. With one change at Peterborough (there is a 48 minute wait for the train to Ipswich) you will arrive back in Ipswich at 21:25. There is another option leaving Lincoln at 19:22. However this journey is much longer arriving back in Ipswich at 00:10 with changes at Newark North Gate, Peterborough and Cambridge. Note the trains that Ipswich to Peterborough trains are small – at best three carriages, and it is by no means unknown for there to be only two (or even just one) so they can be very busy. It is possible to travel via London but the journey time is much longer than cross-country. In addition, the timings indicated by www.greateranglia.co.uk show that there is little contingency for delay. This is in addition to the rail replacement bus between Ingatestone and Newbury Park. The 08:56 train from Ipswich will take you to Ingatestone where you pick up the bus. From Newbury Park you take the underground to Kings Cross (Central Line to Holborn, Piccadilly Line to Kings Cross or Central Line to Bank and Northern Line to Kings Cross). Here you pick up a train at 12:03 to Newark North Gate, changing here for a train to Lincoln. This is scheduled to arrive in Lincoln at 14:02.