Derby - Heathrow, Monday 3 September

[gpmartin]

Hello all. I'm planning to travel to Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 (HXX) from Derby (DBY) on the morning of 3 September, via East Midlands Redskins and Heathrow Express. The National Rail website is telling me to take the 07:23 from DBY, but according to the EMT temporary timetable, there is no 07:23! There is an 07:25 and an 07:05. Looking at the details, the timing of the rest of the journey on National Rail Enquiries roughly corresponds to the times for the 07:05 (departs East Midlands Parkway 07:34 according to National Rail / 07:35 according to EMT; arrives St Pancras 09:12 according to both). Would I be correct in assuming therefore that the train will depart at 07:05? Many thanks.

 

[221129]

There is no 0705 on Monday. National Rail is correct.

 

[swt_passenger]

AFAICT there’s a planned weekday timetable change from the 3rd of this month, presumably for another stage of the Derby resignalling works.

What day are you looking at in the journey planner?

 

[cactustwirly]

Yes it's this train:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C66128/2018/09/03
Arrives into St Pancras at 0911

 

[gpmartin]

Thanks for the quick reply . Looking again at the EMT temporary timetable, I see that I was looking at the wrong set of dates - the timetable changes again on Monday. So my error.

 

[swt_passenger]

Thanks for the quick reply . Looking again at the EMT temporary timetable, I see that I was looking at the wrong set of dates - the timetable changes again on Monday. So my error.

I had to look twice, because the front cover of the online pdf does imply it’s one timetable for the entire period, but it contains quite a few dated versions within...

 

[gpmartin]

I had to look twice, because the front cover of the online pdf does imply it’s one timetable for the entire period, but it contains quite a few dated versions within...

Yes, that's where I went wrong - and until two weeks ago I was a regular commuter to Leicester on the 07:05, and had got used to it leaving Derby, then waiting 20 minutes at at Trent to drop into the path of the following service.