Travel advice for Chiltern customers attending Taylor Swift concerts in August
Chiltern Railways is advising customers to buy their tickets before setting out and check their journeys ahead of the upcoming Taylor Swift concerts at Wembley Stadium. Services are expected to be busier than usual and queuing systems will be in place.
The operator will be serving Wembley Stadium station and providing special timetables on all five concert dates – Thursday 15 August, Friday 16 August, Saturday 17 August, Monday 19 August and Tuesday 20 August.
There will be additional trains to take customers to and from the concerts and some changes to evening peak services from London Marylebone.
Journey planners have been updated.
Richard Allan, Managing Director of Chiltern Railways, said:
“Taylor Swift playing five separate dates at Wembley has a generated a huge amount of interest from her fans and we will be running more trains to and from Wembley Stadium station as part of the wider public transport in place to get fans to and from the concerts.
“Our advice to customers is to expect trains to be busy, to travel as early as possible, and to be aware that a will be a queuing system in place for customers catching the train from Wembley Stadium station after the event.”
Customers should also be aware of the below alterations to services on Saturday 17 August:
- A reduced service of one train per hour between 12:00 and 20:00 on the Metropolitan Line between London Marylebone to Aylesbury Vale Parkway via Amersham. After 20:00, rail replacement buses will be in operation between Beaconsfield and stations towards Aylesbury Vale parkway. Rail connections to London Marylebone will be available from Beaconsfield
- A rail replacement service between Oxford and Oxford Parkway from 22:55 due to engineering works
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- Chiltern Railways is part of the Arriva group, one of the leading providers of passenger transport in Europe, employing around 34,400 people and delivering around 1.6 billion passenger journeys across 11 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.