| New timetables - but from where to where? AQ25 - 15th Posted by grahame at 06:37, 15th December 2025 |     |
The new Monday to Friday timetable runs for the first time today - can you identify the lines / stations involved in these segments captures from here on the National Rail website
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| Re: New timetables - but from where to where? AQ25 - 15th Posted by brooklea at 07:42, 15th December 2025 | |
4. Must surely be the West Highland Line from Glasgow Queen St to Oban and Fort William/Mallaig (shown as far as Rannoch), with the 0450 sleeper train from Edinburgh, and the splitting of certain trains at Crianlarich?
| Re: New timetables - but from where to where? AQ25 - 15th Posted by grahame at 07:45, 15th December 2025 | |
4. Must surely be the West Highland Line from Glasgow Queen St to Oban and Fort William/Mallaig (shown as far as Rannoch), with the 0450 sleeper train from Edinburgh, and the splitting of certain trains at Crianlarich?
Yes, it is ... a line I have not travelled for many years and hope to have an opportunity to do so again next year. Fond memories of Oban, of Fort William and Mallaig.
| Re: New timetables - but from where to where? AQ25 - 15th Posted by grahame at 07:23, 16th December 2025 | |
And for 16th, I'm going to let this quiz continue with clues. I should have remembered that timetables are very much my thing and they have proven very hard in the past.
Some extra clues ...
* One of the tables doesn't show a train at all, even though it's in the NR timetable, and one shows a train where the local recommendation might well be to use a bus.
* Two of the timetables show lines that are operating beyond natural capacity and where extreme otherwise-unconventional means are taken to increase the train frequency
* Three of the timetables show "parliamentary" services that only run once a day
| Re: New timetables - but from where to where? AQ25 - 15th Posted by brooklea at 07:59, 16th December 2025 | |
Perhaps timetables are my thing too
1. Looks to me like the North Cotswolds line out of Paddington, showing the direct trains to Oxford with calls at Slough (none shown), Reading, Didcot Parkway (again none shown), plus the 1704 ‘Halts Turbo’ from Didcot Parkway, as far as Kingham.
| Re: New timetables - but from where to where? AQ25 - 15th Posted by grahame at 08:02, 16th December 2025 | |
Perhaps timetables are my thing too 
1. Looks to me like the North Cotswolds line out of Paddington, showing the direct trains to Oxford with calls at Slough (none shown), Reading, Didcot Parkway (again none shown), plus the 1704 ‘Halts Turbo’ from Didcot Parkway, as far as Kingham.
1. Looks to me like the North Cotswolds line out of Paddington, showing the direct trains to Oxford with calls at Slough (none shown), Reading, Didcot Parkway (again none shown), plus the 1704 ‘Halts Turbo’ from Didcot Parkway, as far as Kingham.
Spot on ... and please feel free to fill in more answers. Good to know I have a fellow timetable aficionado
| Re: New timetables - but from where to where? AQ25 - 15th Posted by PrestburyRoad at 08:05, 16th December 2025 | |
3. The Maidenhead-Marlow branch, which at peak times is operated as two linked hops.
| Re: New timetables - but from where to where? AQ25 - 15th Posted by grahame at 09:58, 16th December 2025 | |
3. The Maidenhead-Marlow branch, which at peak times is operated as two linked hops.
Yep ... how to increase frequency when trains can't pass each other. Also (I think) allows a longer peak train on the Marlow to Bourne End section than can get round to Marlow.
