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GWR: https://www.gwr.com/your-journey/journey-information/train-times-and-routes (scroll down the page)

XC: https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/travel-updates-information/train-timetables

There is a poster up at stations detailing all the changes from May 2016. I can't find similar online. If I see said poster again today I'll try and grab an image of it.

I see 'East 1' is 'Coming Soon'. I presume from the uncertainty of what is happening with the 387s has led to this.

Correct. Unfortunately we had a last minute change to the timetable on Friday and have had to stop our E1 timetables from being dispatched to stations. (And online). We're hoping to have it up online for Wednesday at the earliest. Obviously printed copies will be much further behind as they'll need to be reprinted and distributed.

Thanks for posting that update here, Rob T.  ;)

Many thanks for posting - now working madly on TransWilts mini guides ;-)

Paging GWR staff: New TT East 5 is coming up with a 404.

Thank you. I'll investigate with our Web Team.

While I'm here, the all-in-one timetable book (Guide to Services) will be slightly late arriving at stations. Due to the issues we had with E1, everything else is running a week or two later than normal.

Thanks for the update re the guide to services Rob.

Now Middleton Press have ceased producing an all line timetable using the NRT files due to accuracy issues, this and the timetable book published by SWT are all the more of value.

The NRT is still available on the Network Rail website but you will need to print it yourself. There is a suspicion that Network Rail would like the requirement to produce the NRT to be removed. Source, Barry Doe in RAIL magazine issue 799.

Just a quick note to say that the E5 issue has been sorted  :)

Thx Rob.

Though Middleton Press do advertise a Great Britain timetable based upon Thomas Cook's European timetable (Thomas Cook's t/t isn't published by the travel firm anymore but by a group of enterprising business persons - and very interesting it is too!). However such a publication would be far from a full GB t/t as many local and suburban services are shown only in summary. Mind you Middleton's book is only a tenner and more likely to fit in a brief case than requiring the wheeled suitcase needed for a print out of Network Rail's pdf's! :D

Yup, Middleton are doing Thomas Cook style timetable which I'm sure many will appreciate it. Sadly I'm not one of them being an old school timetable enthusiast.

So are there any headline changes? I've had a flick through the timetables (PAD-TWY and TWY-HOT) that affect me and most things look pretty similar...

Two later evening Summer Sunday services on the Severn Beach Line...

Extra lunchtime return working (Monday to Friday) on the TransWilts. Removes a bit of a gap and hopefully a portent of more to come.

Good news for the timetable purists like myself. Following a large amount of feedback, Middleton Press are going to do a limited print run of the complete Summer National Rail Timetable following receipt of the corrected files from Network Rail.

You need to be quick in registering an interest by end of July. As it's a limited one off print run, the cost is higher than previous editions. It will not be available at your local station branch of WH Smith.

More info here:
https://www.middletonpress.co.uk/news/comprehensive-rail-times.html

Many thanks for that, Timmer!  ;) :D ;D

I've registered. Mainly because I feel Middleton need support.  They have tried their best in very trying circumstances to produce a credible publication over the last couple of years.

Middleton Press have produced some excellent books - indeed, I have on my desk right now a copy of 'Branch Line to Cheddar, including the Wrington Vale Light Railway', which includes many photographs of those old lines.  :)

Don't make it easy then......

Putting the email address and/or a link to any contact page in that article might generate a few more orders.....

You may have found this by now, but here's the link to order the timetable online:
https://www.middletonpress.co.uk/railtimes/comprehensive-rail-times-for-great-britain.html

Agreed that it would have been useful to include this in the news article.

Thank you - no I hadn't.

Ordering to less than 2 minutes.....