True, but has the 450 been on the branch all week?
It was on Friday. Could quite possible have been the rest of the week but I didn't think to notice - unless my usual train's a little late or the lymo a little early I quite often miss seeing it anyway.
Took a trip to Weymouth yesterday, went down on the 14.04 from Bournemouth and back up on the 20.10. Got handed a leaflet at the ticket office and was told, somewhat sarcastically, "We have to give you this". The leaflet warned of a queuing system outside Weymouth and to get to the station 40 minutes before the departure.
So got there 5 minutes prior, and apart from having to walk through all the queuing barricades, there was no queue and it was straight through and onto the train. It was busy, but everyone had a seat and no-one had to stand.
One thing that has changed is there's a noticeable increase in ticket checks. The last two months have been especially light - not only on the trains but the barriers at BMH have been open most of the times I was through. Not anymore.