London Midland introduced their summer timetable on Monday. Minimal changes on paper, and so far my experience has been nothing significant in practice.
The 07:00 from Bletchley which comes down from Northampton and calls only at Leighton Buzzard perhaps has slightly fewer vacant seats but only on Monday did we have people standing (there was talk of problems with a southbound Virgin train which could explain that).
The 17:51 from Euston home has been OK apart from some messing about with platforms at the London end (18 one day and 8 the next). For some reason London Midland decided to add an additional stop at Harrow-on-Wealdstone but fortunately that hasn't resulted in a later arrival at Bletchley (providing evidence that there is plenty of slack time built into the rail operator timetables).
Given some of the problems that we've had in the past with the introduction of a new timetable, London Midland and Network Rail are probably to be congratulated for their efforts this time around (or is this just early days?)
The 07:00 from Bletchley which comes down from Northampton and calls only at Leighton Buzzard perhaps has slightly fewer vacant seats but only on Monday did we have people standing (there was talk of problems with a southbound Virgin train which could explain that).
The 17:51 from Euston home has been OK apart from some messing about with platforms at the London end (18 one day and 8 the next). For some reason London Midland decided to add an additional stop at Harrow-on-Wealdstone but fortunately that hasn't resulted in a later arrival at Bletchley (providing evidence that there is plenty of slack time built into the rail operator timetables).
Given some of the problems that we've had in the past with the introduction of a new timetable, London Midland and Network Rail are probably to be congratulated for their efforts this time around (or is this just early days?)
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