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Chiltern Railways increasing number of services from 6th JulyChiltern Railways will be strengthening their timetable from Monday 6th July to prepare for a gradual increase in passengers travelling by train. The train operator has been running a reduced timetable since Monday 23rd March, ensuring that vital train services for key workers continued to run throughout the Coronavirus outbreak. The new timetable will work to increase capacity on the Marylebone – Amersham – Aylesbury line as well as strengthening services to Oxford and Birmingham. Monday - Friday there will be half hourly services from Marylebone to Aylesbury, increasing to four services an hour in the peak and half hourly services to Birmingham and Oxford. The new timetable represents 90% of Chiltern Railways usual timetabled peak service. Customers looking to travel on weekends are advised to check the Chiltern Railways website for train times. However, passengers are reminded that they should still only travel if their journey is necessary and wherever possible customers are urged to look for alternative methods of travel. If a journey is essential, customers are advised to:
Mary Hewitt, Interim Managing Director at Chiltern Railways said: “We want to reassure customers that their safety and the safety of our staff is of the utmost importance to us. We’re taking lots of extra steps to keep people safe such as increased cleaning onboard our trains and at our stations using enhanced products and we are also looking to provide as much capacity as possible to enable the 1m plus social distancing rule. To ensure that we can continue running a safe railway, we would encourage passengers to only travel and use public transport if absolutely necessary, in line with government guidance. If you do need to use public transport, we would like to remind our customers, for the safety of all, that face coverings are now mandatory, except for specific medical conditions.” We hope this update is of value and would appreciate if it could be shared with appropriate colleagues within your business as well as to your client partners to better manage travel arrangements and service enquiries during this challenging time. Thank you for your support. |
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