Getting to (or, indeed, from) Chelmsford is easy. Chelmsford has its own railway station and its own bus station. The railway station has been renovated over the years to the point where it's really rather smart in a clinical sort of way. Trains run regularly to London's Liverpool Street station (which is about 40 minutes away), calling via Shenfield [Change here for services to Southend-on-Sea and Billericay, as well as other stops en route to London, such as Brentwood and Ilford. ] , Romford, and Stratford. In the opposite direction trains run out to Colchester, Clacton-on-Sea, Ipswich , Harwich , and (on a good day, when Intercity trains are stopping) to Norwich .

The bus station, on the other hand, has fallen into disrepair. The newsagents/sweet shop has long been boarded up, and the whole place just reeks of neglect, or possibly of urine and cabbages. At the time of writing (October 2002), plans have just been unveiled for rather extensive renovations. Until those are completed, many residents and visitors consider the station an eyesore, which is unfortunate, as it is the central point for bus-catching in Chelmsford, and accordingly the first thing many people