Robsignals
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After years of poor health a recent improvement has enabled me to make lots of rail trips, also cheaper than a holiday! From Worthing on a Saturday I've been catching the 0542 to Victoria 0659 then 0810 (0740 please!) from Marylebone to Birmingham Moor St 1001. I've been very impressed with Chiltern, they don't make headlines but quietly get on with running a pretty fast and efficient service with decent trains and very good fares - Worcester or Shrewsbury with Railcard £38.50 for a Month's return.
Last Saturday 15/06 I came back from Worcester arr New Street 2009 and was going to take Cross Country to Banbury but that went delayed. So Moor St 2045 P1 which open data sites such as RealTimeTrains (RTT) showed as empty coaching stock (ECS) from Snow Hill, good number of people waiting ar 2041 when possibly a driver shouted across from P2 that it's on P4 where a late train had just arrived. We all trooped obediently and calmly over the bridge but were held from going down the platform until alighting passengers had cleared. It was front 4 of 8 and a tribute to passengers good behaviour that dep was only 2.5 minutes late soon recovered. I asked the TM what happened she said it's always P4 and had no idea why it was shown as P1 so possibly not Chilterns fault, all CH trains were STP and are again today 22/06, anybody know why?
Looking at a slightly early arr Marylebone but had to wait for a platform, shown as P3 driver announced it wa P6 and I think third train, even jogging it took 2 minutes to get to the Gates! I had 30min to get last but one train from Victoria to Worthing, the Underground gods smiled on me and I had almost 10 min to spare. One criticism is the service from Birmingham drops off a cliff after 2000 ,there's only one later train to London and that's so slow I'd miss the last Worthing. The XC left New St 14 late and was stuck behind us getting to 27L at Banbury but arr Southampton 1Early!
Last Saturday 15/06 I came back from Worcester arr New Street 2009 and was going to take Cross Country to Banbury but that went delayed. So Moor St 2045 P1 which open data sites such as RealTimeTrains (RTT) showed as empty coaching stock (ECS) from Snow Hill, good number of people waiting ar 2041 when possibly a driver shouted across from P2 that it's on P4 where a late train had just arrived. We all trooped obediently and calmly over the bridge but were held from going down the platform until alighting passengers had cleared. It was front 4 of 8 and a tribute to passengers good behaviour that dep was only 2.5 minutes late soon recovered. I asked the TM what happened she said it's always P4 and had no idea why it was shown as P1 so possibly not Chilterns fault, all CH trains were STP and are again today 22/06, anybody know why?
Looking at a slightly early arr Marylebone but had to wait for a platform, shown as P3 driver announced it wa P6 and I think third train, even jogging it took 2 minutes to get to the Gates! I had 30min to get last but one train from Victoria to Worthing, the Underground gods smiled on me and I had almost 10 min to spare. One criticism is the service from Birmingham drops off a cliff after 2000 ,there's only one later train to London and that's so slow I'd miss the last Worthing. The XC left New St 14 late and was stuck behind us getting to 27L at Banbury but arr Southampton 1Early!
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