If my train home from work was only cancelled 6 times a year I'd be jumping for joy!
Stops cancelled on the day will result in a PPM failure regardless. Pick-up/set-down restrictions will not fail PPM.
To use the Cambridge English dictionary, the relevant definition of "lie" is:
In which way are you suggesting that Chiltern's actions in this case (of deliberately omitting an actual calling point on a list of calling points, and instructing staff to say that the train would not be calling at Wycombe) was not consistent with the above definition?
So passengers who short-fare are doing nothing wrong, if the fare from the station they name is the same as that which they should have paid? And travelling beyond the validity of your ticket is fine as long as the fare to the station you travel to is the same?
You really must give up this pointless argument. Chiltern were not out to deceive passengers bacause as far as High Wycombe passengers were concerned, the train was indeed not for their use. They are entitled to withdraw availability for operational reasons, - in this case fully justifiably as a normal method of passenger management. Other trains were available to High Wycombe that wouldn't have been suitable for passengers travelling further down the line. Just because that train was normally available, it doesn't entitle passengers to travel on it if it had been announced (or indicated) otherwise. That includes all passengers, whatever the price of the ticket, however regular the passenger travelled, (even self-entitled season ticket holders). The change was to make the best use of a short formed train.
I don't object to them making the train pick-up only on short notice nearly as much as I object to them lying about it being pick-up only when it's not. I've said several times what the problems with lying about this are but clearly it seems I am in the minority within this part of the forum in holding that view.
I haven't gone back through the thread to check, but do we know that the train was not pickup only on that day? There are plenty of variations that the railway make (is the term 'very short term plan'?) and is there anything in the rules that says that varying whether passengers can be carried to a particular destination is not one of those variations?
So were Chiltern lying to say this at Marylebone? No, they were stating what the position was on that day. Which strikes me as being a useful sort of thing to do.
They did not lie. The service was not available for passengers travelling to High Wycombe. End of story.
Clearly not as far a those who from time to time post complaining here about pick-up only arrangements, (whether they are described as such in the timetable or not). They seem to think that their wish to board the fastest train for their journey overrides the needs of every other passenger, even those who might have a far more troublsome journey than their short delay by getting the next train. Luckily, like so many posting on this thread, the TOC doesn't agree that their service is just for the most selfish passengers, and does what it has to for everybody's benefit. They know, probably through the antics of the selfish that this was the best way to make them behave respectfully. Those who don't like it can then rant to their heart's content. A better solution would be to do the Reading style fix, i.e. Start a train from High Wycombe, carry the selfish ones over to the next stop and collect the excesses in the process. Unfortunately, it seems that they don't have sufficient stock and/or drivers to do that.
You need to grasp one simple point. If a train is pick-up only then that station will not be mentioned at any stations before the pick-up only location. It's not lying, it's just how they stop people using the train.
From the initial tweets it was clear that it was not actually pick-up only.
Given that a tweet isn't the timetable, it's far from clear.
