Chiltern Railways

[LiamsTransport1]

Probably to strengthen their Birmingham to London Marylebone which is going to be every 30 mins

No change in frequency to now. The service currently runs at 20/40 frequency from Moor Street to London so they are just making the timetable more even.

[BK63 YWP]

No change in frequency to now. The service currently runs at 20/40 frequency from Moor Street to London so they are just making the timetable more even.

Yes to line up with the new snow hill lines timetable. WMR regular pattern will now be roughly every 15 mins. Departures will be xx.05 Whitlocks End, xx.21 Dorridge, xx.35 Stratford via Whitlocks, xx.51 Stratford via Dorridge. Also the Chiltern Snow Hill services are being cut. Departures from snow hill will be 06.41, 08.11, 09.11, 10.11, 12.11, 14.11, 15.11 (to Leamington Spa), 16.11, 17.11, 18.11, 20.11, 21.11, 22.16 (to Banbury), 23.41 (to Banbury)

[Bob]

Anyobe know which moir st to london marylebone trips and vice versa are loco hauled? 

[Trident 4194]

Anyobe know which moir st to london marylebone trips and vice versa are loco hauled?

Have a look on real time trains 

[Tony]

Have a look on real time trains

What good will that do?

[Trident 4194]

What good will that do?

It tells you?!!!!

[Tony]

It tells you?!!!!

Which ones are marked as loco hauled? They are all timed as units

[Isle of Stroma]

Which ones are marked as loco hauled? They are all timed as units

 Realtime Trains | 1J49 1707 London Marylebone to Stourbridge Junction | 11/07/2023

[mikestone]

Academic this week as they do not use then when Aslef have an o/t ban.

[Roy]

Chiltern Railways is tendering for between 25 and 70 replacement vehicles (existing stock rather than new build) to be available for driver training in 2024 and entry into service by early 2025.  Class 175s or Mk5a coaches would seem to be among the fovourites.
https://bidstats.uk/tenders/2023/W51/813170912

[Budgie]

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. 

[Tony]

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.

I've known it a few times over the years, normally due to bad railhead conditions. Normally the drivers are given permission to reverse