Chiltern Railways update (again!)

Business Zone


Chiltern has extended its Business Zone offering to all four Silver Train services to / from Birmingham Moor Street and London Marylebone (see http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/content/business-zone) For a 'promotional period', the Business Zone Supplement will be £10 per journey. DO NOT buy the £115 package ticket whilst this promotion is in place as you will be paying £10 more than you need to...

May 2012 Timetable Changes


Introductory letter from Graham Cross (Business Development Manager) http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/sites/default/files/01_0%20CRCL%20May%2012%20Timetable%20Introduction%20Public.pdf

Published timetable http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/sites/default/files/02_1%20Joint%20line%20[SX]%20May%202012%20timetable.pdf

Key changes Birmingham to London



1555 Birmingham Moor Street to London Marylebone, calls additionally at Haddenham & Thame Parkway at 1707 and ceases to call at High Wycombe


The 1710 Birmingham Snow Hill to London Marylebone slow train is broken into two halves and becomes the 1710 Birmingham Moor Street to Leamington Spa and the 1813 Banbury to London Marylebone (This will improve punctuality).


The 2042 Birmingham Moor Street to London Marylebone will leave at 2037 and call additionally at
Hatton and Lapworth


The following popular Saturday trains will have extra vehicles added:
o 0815 Birmingham Moor Street-Marylebone (formerly 0812 Birmingham Snow HillMarylebone)
o 0714 Kidderminster-Marylebone
o 0813 Kidderminster-Marylebone
o 0912 Birmingham Snow Hill – Marylebone will have two extra vehicles

Key Changes London to Birmingham



The popular 1507 from London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill will be lengthened
from 3 cars to 4


The 1737 London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill will call additionally at Haddenham


The 1840 London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill will depart 3 minutes earlier at
1837


The busy 1915 London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill will be lengthened from 4
cars to 7 on a Friday night


The busy 1937 London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill will be lengthened from 3
cars to 4 every weekday evening


The 2107 London Marylebone to Birmingham Moor Street calls additionally at Hatton (2242) and Lapworth (2248)

Tweet the Manager


Bevis Thomas (Head of Train Planning) was in the firing line today... http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23ttmbev