Norfolk to London commute calculator
The season ticket is only part of what a London commute costs. This calculator adds food, station parking and the value of your time on the train to give a full annual figure.
The season ticket is only part of what a London commute from Norfolk costs. This calculator adds food and station parking for each office day and puts a value on the hours spent on the train, so you can see the full annual figure before choosing a town for its station. Change the inputs to match your week.
Fares are annual standard-class season tickets at 2026 prices (regulated fares in England are frozen until March 2027), to any London terminal and without a Travelcard, from the National Rail season ticket calculator. Norwich and Diss have direct Greater Anglia trains to London Liverpool Street. King’s Lynn has direct Great Northern trains to King’s Cross through Ely and Cambridge. From Thetford, Attleborough and Wymondham the usual route is a change at Ely for King’s Cross, and those three fares are priced for travel via Cambridge. Wymondham commuters can instead change at Norwich for Liverpool Street, which needs the via-Norwich season at £10,732. Journey times are the fastest weekday trains and, where our town guide gives it, the range most trains take. The time cost uses the middle of that range for Norwich, Diss and King’s Lynn, and the fastest journey for Wymondham, Attleborough and Thetford, where you change trains, so for those three it is the least the journey will take. Time on the train is valued at your gross hourly rate: salary divided by working hours, before tax.
The fares stop at the London terminal. A Travelcard season, which adds the Underground, costs £12,076 from Norwich instead of £10,716, and £11,344 from Diss instead of £9,976. The calculator leaves this out, so if your office is not a walk from the station, add the difference or your Tube fares yourself.
The calculator prices the ticket you would actually buy. From Norwich and Diss it compares the annual season with Flexi Seasons, which give eight days of travel in any 28 and cost £822.60 from Norwich and £765.60 from Diss, and uses whichever is cheaper for your week. At one or two office days a week it counts one Flexi Season for every four working weeks, and at three or four days two of them. Two days a week for 46 weeks from Norwich is 11.5 Flexi Seasons, about £9,460, against £10,716 for the annual season. We have not priced Flexi Seasons from King’s Lynn, Thetford, Attleborough or Wymondham, so for those stations the calculator uses the annual season, which is the most you would pay. At one day a week half of each Flexi Season goes unused, and day returns for the trains you take may cost less; price them on National Rail before you buy.
If your employer runs a season ticket loan scheme, it lends the cost of an annual season interest-free and takes it back from salary each month, so ask before paying up front. HMRC does not treat such a loan as a taxable benefit while the loans to an employee total less than £10,000 throughout the tax year. A full Norwich season, at £10,716, is over that line.
The hourly rate assumes a 40-hour week: salary divided by weeks worked, five days and eight hours. If your contracted week is longer or shorter, adjust the salary figure so the hourly rate matches your real pay.
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