Yep, see: http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/C94390/2012/5/14Sounds like 1V28 10:44 Gerrards Cross to Paddington which is a Chiltern service.
Didn't run on bank holiday Mon 7 May, see: http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/C94390Not sure how regular it is.
Sounds like 1V28 10:44 Gerrards Cross to Paddington which is a Chiltern service. Not sure how regular it is.
It's not really a Parliamentary service in the usual meaning of the term - the train exists to keep Chiltern drivers trained up on the route into Paddington, for when weekend services are diverted that way.
The one time I caught it a few years ago at South Ruislip it was quite full and we had trouble finding 4 seats - I think it had started at High Wycombe or Princess Risborough. There were a couple of bewildered looking American tourists getting off at Paddington expecting to be in Marylebone.
Oh yes it is!</panto>
It's the only regular passenger service between Old Oak Common West and Northolt Junction. That it runs (operating problems notwithstanding) five days a week is neither here nor there.
I thought parliamentary services were defined by the fact that they exist purely to keep a line open which otherwise might be closed?
I understood the Chiltern Stratford - Oxfords were done purely to appease the "powers that be" in Oxford who, when Chiltern took over the Stratford service from FGW, were aghast that they'd no longer be able to get back from the Theatre.
Exactly. And that's what makes it parliamentary: a run purely to keep a service (in this case through from Stratford to Oxford) open.
If the Chiltern Stratford to Oxford service was withdrawn which line would have to go through the closure procedure?
Yep, see: http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/C94390/2012/5/14
Didn't run on bank holiday Mon 7 May, see: http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/C94390
More than that in fact. Some parly services exist purely to keep a service in existence, such as Chiltern's late-night Stratford to Oxford services, or LM's Gloucester run.
Being parliamentary has no relation to frequency.
I've been wanting to do Paddington - Kings Sutton via Greenford to South Ruislip for ages - Is there a service still?
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There is an 11:36 Paddington to W.Ruislip but you would have to change at West Ruislip, Gerrards Cross and Bicester and you wouldn't get to Kings Sutton till 16:12.
What is this LM service to Gloucester?
Nothing, but as I keep saying that's not the point of a parliamentary service. It's to do with services between places, not just to do with physical bits of rail.
There is an 11:36 Paddington to W.Ruislip but you would have to change at West Ruislip, Gerrards Cross and Bicester and you wouldn't get to Kings Sutton till 16:12.
13.12 surely?
11.36 Paddington - Gerrard's Cross 12.08
12.13 Gerrard's Cross - High Wycome 12.30
12.35 High Wycome - King's Sutton 13.12
I'm quoting the NRTT.
So one of them isn't correct. Will have to see next time I am in the Paddington vicinity at 11:30 whether the train still runs through to Gerrards Cross or, as per Chiltern's timetable, now terminates at West Ruislip.