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« Reply #45 on: November 02, 2010, 16:22:54 »
Well, who'd have thought...? "Chiltern Railways in 'not perfect' shocker" might make a nice headline...  Grin
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« Reply #46 on: November 02, 2010, 16:34:52 »
Ok, maybe the press correspndents need to read this thread on ukr newsgroup.
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« Reply #47 on: November 06, 2010, 12:58:12 »
Quote from: ChrisB on November 01, 2010, 12:04:53
I shall be out & about there on Friday morning....we'll see!

How did things go, Chris?

Certainly from the Birmingham, Banbury, Oxford, Didcot perspective it was a bruising day all round with punctuality in the evening peaks hit very badly as has been discussed elsewhere - any poor unfortunates who may have elected to travel to/from Bicester Town as per my suggestion would probably have had a bit of a nightmare.  The trains running from Marylebone to Aylesbury Vale Parkway seemed to perform much better.

Sadly, passengers on the hourly Birmingham to Didcot services fared badly as well.  Most of them were running late (not helped at all by a mere 5 minutes turnback time allowed at Didcot Parkway) and the severe delays on the FGW▸ (First Great Western) routes meant that a lot of connections were missed.  XC▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) services bore the brunt of many extra passengers too with busy Friday loadings swelled to almost breaking point on a number of trains - many people abandoning the 'official' timetable via Didcot due to the delays!
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« Reply #48 on: November 06, 2010, 13:02:36 »
Yup - completely agree. Can't add much to that, except to say that my recommendation for next year's repeats will to be to stay with Chiltern & endure the bus / drive to Aylesbury VP.....although it won't take many more before they'll need overflow parking @ AVP
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