Does anyone have any experience either getting tickets or travelling on National Express East Coast during an "Engineering Works" period? I'm finding that National Rail is proposing work during much of June that will require changes to schedules and replacing some legs of a journey with a bus. They haven't released the "advanced purchase" (discounted) tickets for weekends in June, so the only tickets available are significantly more expensive than normal. They also don't indicate any time difference for any of the available routes, even though they'll be using buses.
Has anyone experienced this and how much time did it add to your journey? We'll be traveling from Newcastle to London. Thanks.