London Overground
Highbury & Islington to West Croydon / Clapham Junction Route
On Mondays to Saturdays there are more trains to/from West Croydon after 2200 hours
Romford to Upminster Route
On Saturday evenings trains finish later (the same time as Mondays to Fridays)
A Sunday service is introduced, with trains running every 30 minutes
Great Northern
Great Northern Hertford Loop and Welwyn Garden City stopping trains weekday Service to Moorgate is
continued late evening until midnight also all day Saturday and Sunday by diverting to serve Moorgate, Old
Street, Essex Road, Highbury & Islington and Drayton Park instead of Kings Cross. Passengers for Kings Cross
have a cross platform connection at Highbury & Islington for London Underground Victoria line, tickets are interavailable.
Connections to all parts of London are available by London Underground at Moorgate and London Overground
and Underground at Highbury & Islington.
Southern, Gatwick Express and Thameslink South
Trains Off Peak weekdays and Saturdays are totally revised as at the start of the transition preparing for
completion of the Thameslink programme when trains south of the Thames will be linked to destinations including
Peterborough and Cambridge.
Two of the four per hour nonstop London Victoria to Gatwick Airport, Gatwick Express trains will run to Brighton,
just stopping London Victoria, Gatwick Airport and Brighton.
Two per Hour Brighton Express trains will run stopping London Victoria, Clapham Junction, East Croydon and
Brighton with one per hour stopping at Gatwick Airport and Hassocks and one per hour stopping at Horley and
Burgess Hill.
Trains between London Victoria and Sussex Coast destinations such as Worthing, Lewes, Eastbourne and
Littlehampton have station Stops swapped to make some Journeys faster.
London Victoria to Crawley, Horsham, Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton trains with portions for the Arun
Valley and Bognor Regis will run faster as they will run nonstop between East Croydon and Gatwick Airport.
Reigate and Tonbridge trains are diverted to serve London Victoria and Clapham Junction instead of London
Bridge and Norwood Junction and will run faster as they will be nonstop between East Croydon and Redhill.
Passengers for London Bridge and Norwood Junction change at East Croydon. There will continue to be half
hourly direct London Bridge trains for Redhill, Merstham and Coulsdon South with 4 fast per hour Purley and
Norwood Junction and 7 per hour for East Croydon.
Bedford to Three Bridges trains via London Thameslink stations will stop additionally at Purley, Coulsdon South,
Merstham and Redhill.
Bedford to Brighton trains via London Thameslink stations will stop all stations between Hayward’s Heath and
Brighton.
Two per hour London Bridge to Brighton trains will run faster just stopping at East Croydon, Gatwick Airport,
Three Bridges and Hayward’s Heath with one per hour stopping at Balcombe and one per hour stopping Burgess
Hill.
Thameslink North Overnight
A 3 Year trial of doubling the frequency of overnight trains Sunday night/ Monday morning to Friday night/
Saturday morning (no service Saturday night/ Sunday morning) between Bedford, Luton Airport Parkway and
London St Pancras. As a consequence the opportunity is taken to speed up the current overnight service
Bedford, Luton Airport Parkway, London, East Croydon, Gatwick Airport, Three Bridges train by cutting out some
of the station stops between St Albans and London which are served instead by the new train.
Virgin Trains East Coast
Mondays to Fridays
Southbound
The 0559 hours from Newcastle to London King’s Cross will start from Sunderland at 0540 hours
The 0626 hours from Edinburgh Waverley to London King’s Cross will start from Stirling at 0526
hours, calling additionally at Falkirk Grahamston and Haymarket.
Northbound
The 1500 hours from London King’s Cross to Edinburgh Waverley is extended through to Stirling,
calling additionally at Haymarket and Falkirk Grahamston. The 2000 hours from London King’s Cross
to Newcastle is extended through to Sunderland.
Saturdays
We will be operating the following additional services: -
0940 hours from Leeds to London King’s Cross, calling at Wakefield Westgate and Peterborough.
1904 hours from London King’s Cross to Leeds, Calling at Peterborough, Doncaster and Wakefield
Westgate.
Scot Rail
Timetable Improvements from 13 December
ScotRail’s new timetable, launching on Sunday 13 December, contains improvements for customers who travel in
the South West of the country; to Lanark or Carstairs; or who use the West Highland Line.
Some Services will be extended to call at more stations and new services added. Others have been retimed to
provide better connections for Customers.
Phil Verster, Managing director of the ScotRail Alliance, said; “This is the first set of timetable changes since we
took over the franchise. We’ve worked hard to make sure we’re making the best use of our rolling stock so that,
Wherever possible, the busiest services have the most capacity. Services in the South West have been
completely overhauled to allow more opportunity for local travel between Ayr and Stranraer. And in South
Lanarkshire we’ve added late night station calls to help Those in Lanark and Carstairs get home.”
Derek Mackay, Minister for Transport and Island, said” Scotland’s rail networks are currently more popular than
ever with 90 million journeys being made every year. I have always been clear that rail services must meet the
specific needs of the communities that they serve and offer both reliable and timely connections.
“That is why we are currently investing record amounts in Scotland’s railways to ensure that more people have
access to these services, and why Transport Scotland routinely works in consultation with local communities to
make sure that we run services that provide maximum benefit for passengers.
“These new timetables are good news for rail passengers in Stranraer, Lanark and Carstairs who will be able to
enjoy more frequent services from December.”
Passengers should check their own journey on
www.scotrail.co.uk by selecting a date on or after 13 December.
Glasgow to Stranraer route
Monday – Sunday; New hourly Ayr – Girvan service with every other train extended to Stranraer. This provides
12 trains per day to Girvan and 8 to Stranraer – Compared with 10 and 6 in the current timetable.
Two additional Ayr – Kilmarnock services Monday – Saturday, and two extra Sunday trains between Ayr –
Stranraer.
Monday – Saturday Stranraer and Girvan services will now run to Ayr, Kilmarnock, or Glasgow Central via
Kilmarnock, therefore passengers for Paisley and Kilwinning should change at Ayr for a connection going North.
Short connections times at Ayr mean that end to end journey times are broadly comparable.
On Sundays, passengers travelling from Stranraer and Girvan to Glasgow Central need to change at Ayr for a
service to the city.
Trains between Ayr and Glasgow Central via Kilmarnock will no longer call at Prestwick International Airport and
Prestwick Town. Passengers should change at Troon for a connection to these stations.
In order to accommodate these additional these additional services and timetable improvements, services
throughout the day have been slightly retimed. Customers should check their journey before travelling.
Lanark and Carstairs services
Mondays to Fridays 23.20 Glasgow Central to Motherwell has been extended to Lanark.
Monday to Friday 22.31 Dalmuir to Motherwell has been extended to Carstairs.
Following Feedback from Customers, there will be a redistribution of carriages to where they are needed most in
the morning and evening peaks.
West Highland Line
On Sundays, the 09.56 Glasgow Queen Street to Oban and 16.11 Oban to Glasgow Queen Street will become a
year – round services. Previously these ran during the summer months only.
Edinburgh to Dunblane
Monday to Friday 05.21 Dunblane to Edinburgh now departs Dunblane earlier at 05.13 to provide a connection
from Dunblane into the new Virgin Trains East Coast 05.26 Stirling to London Kings Cross.
This information is also available online at
www.scotrail.co.uk/dec15timetable
Train operator coding
In this publication of the NRT, TL covers Southern, Gatwick Express, Great Northern and Thameslink train
Services.
but that still wouldn't have made it much more of a regular service though, as per geoffk's point. 
(Yes, I know, if they do that it sets a dangerous precedent and they'd have to do it again! 
)