10: 00am Arrive at Epping Underground bus station. CM16 4HW
10:10am Meet the Tour Guide close to the Station entrance. The Guide will be wearing an orange high
visibility jacket. Present your Confirmation email from Chigwell Tours with your name and voucher on
and collect your bus/rail ticket from the Guide.
10:20am Board vintage bus 339 to North Weald Station, home of the Epping - Ongar Steam Rail.
10:45am Arrival at North Weald Station. Followed by a comfort break.
10:55am Board the steam train with your tour guide.
11:00am Steam train departs for Ongar.
11:20am – 11:30am Steam train arrives at Ongar – disembark. Comfort break. Look around Ongar station, visit Pictorial
Exhibition.
11:30am – 12:00pm With your tour guide, explore Ongar high street and visit the cheese monger’s shop.
12:00pm- 1:00pm With your tour guide walk to Greensted Church. (The oldest wooden church in the world)
You will be walking on the Essex way and countryside.
You will return to Ongar high street.
1:00pm-2:15pm Lunch.
2:20pm Return to Ongar Station.
Note:
Diesel train departs at 2:30 for North weald
Steam train departs at 3:30 for North Weald.
Customers should select their option.
2:30pm | 3:30pm Board Diesel locomotive or steam train to North Weald.
2:35pm | 3:35pm Train departs for North Weald with tour guide.
3:30pm Customers board train independently and complete the rest of the journey on their own.
2:50pm Diesel locomotive train arrives at North Weald station. Stay on the train for a journey through Epping
Forest. (You may be asked to disembark and switch platforms for this journey, otherwise, stay
seated.)
3:05pm Train departs for its journey through Epping Forest.
3:25pm Train arrives back at North Weald Station – disembark.
3:30pm Catch Vintage bus 339 back to Epping Underground Station where the tour ends.
4:00pm Steam train customers board bus 339 for return journey to Epping where the tour ends.
The last bus from North Weald to Epping departs at 4:30pm
End of Tour
