Three additional Saturday services included in Chiltern Railways’ upcoming timetable change
Customers travelling with Chiltern Railways are being reminded to check their journeys ahead of upcoming changes to the timetable on Sunday 18 May.
Three new services will be introduced on Saturdays with the aim of relieving the pressure on Chiltern's heavily used Birmingham line trains.
The additional services include:
- A Banbury to Marylebone service which departs at 09.46
- A Banbury to Marylebone service which departs at 10.13
- A Marylebone to Banbury service which departs at 17.37
In addition, a small number of services have had their times changed by a few minutes with the aim of improving overall punctuality.
Tony Baxter, Operations Director at Chiltern Railways, said:
“I would like to remind customers to please check your journeys ahead of our upcoming timetable change this Sunday as some service times will change by a few minutes.
“We’re seeing busy Saturday services with more customers visiting the many great destinations on the Chiltern network. To offer more capacity for our customers, we are introducing three additional Saturday services between Banbury and London Marylebone which should ease some of the pressure on our trains to and from Birmingham.”
Train timetables change nationally twice a year in May and December.
To find out more information on the May timetable change, visit here.
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- Chiltern Railways is part of the Arriva group, one of the leading providers of passenger transport in Europe, employing around 36,200 people and delivering around 1.5 billion passenger journeys across 11 European countries.
- Chiltern operates commuter/regional rail passenger services from its Central London terminus at London Marylebone along the M40 corridor to destinations in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, as well as long-distance services to the West Midlands along two routes. Services on the Chiltern Main Line run from London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford, with some peak-hour services to Stourbridge Junction.
- Chiltern also runs trains on the London to Aylesbury Line to Aylesbury (with some trains terminating at Aylesbury Vale Parkway instead), on the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury and Oxford to Bicester branch lines.