Waiting at Haddenham & Thame Parkway yesterday morning (Wednesday 31/01/24) for the 07:30 London Marylebone (none stop service from Haddenham), the driver completely overshot the platform with all 8 carriages ending up outside the platform. The train remained stationary for a few minutes (as can be testified by looking at Real Train Times) and then carried on regardless. I didn't expect it would or could reverse although the line was used as bidirectional during the landslip issues further north a few weeks back.
For the very many of us on the cold platform, we had to wait for the 08:03. Not too shocking but slightly problematic when you are welcoming guests to your office (an easily solved issue). What is worse is for those planning to get off at Haddenham. Real Train times isn't clear but it suggests the train didn't stop further down the line meaning those getting off would have needed to take the 08:35 back from London arriving approx 110 minutes later that they should at 09:19. The 08:11 from Marylebone appearing not to be held for those returning passengers (which isn't a massive surprise).
The 08:03 was 5 cars rather than 6 which at first sounds bad but I believe the normal service starts at Stourbridge and is loco hauled. We had a pair of 168s starting in Birmingham. Very cramped in the vestibule area but not sure the loco hauled service would have been better
Has anyone else had this issues before where the train driver fails to stop in time. You could smell the brakes but could also see he was heading into and through the station far too fast, again not a surprise.
For the very many of us on the cold platform, we had to wait for the 08:03. Not too shocking but slightly problematic when you are welcoming guests to your office (an easily solved issue). What is worse is for those planning to get off at Haddenham. Real Train times isn't clear but it suggests the train didn't stop further down the line meaning those getting off would have needed to take the 08:35 back from London arriving approx 110 minutes later that they should at 09:19. The 08:11 from Marylebone appearing not to be held for those returning passengers (which isn't a massive surprise).
The 08:03 was 5 cars rather than 6 which at first sounds bad but I believe the normal service starts at Stourbridge and is loco hauled. We had a pair of 168s starting in Birmingham. Very cramped in the vestibule area but not sure the loco hauled service would have been better
Has anyone else had this issues before where the train driver fails to stop in time. You could smell the brakes but could also see he was heading into and through the station far too fast, again not a surprise.