Joey Beauchamp
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NOTE: I typed this out on the Storm Goretti thread but it showed closed for further replies before I could post.
I'm really shocked by the London Northwestern reduced timetable this evening. I'm off to MK to watch my team play Franchise in the FA cup, and up until this morning my journey from Long Buckby to Bletchley was 43 minutes on the way and 52 minutes on the way back.
I will now have to leave half an hour earlier as the trains are only hourly though Long Buckby. But that's not the worst of it, according to journey planners the last possible train is 21.10 from Bletchley, or around 10 minutes before the game finishes a mile and a half away!
If I go to Milton Keynes Central, it looks like the only route home is the 22.46 Avanti to Rugby, half an hour wait, then the last train back to Long Buckby. This last train has run around 40 minutes late twice this week, so it's pot luck whether it's late again (the only bright spot being they do usually run it eventually).
Does anyone know why the service has been decimated? I could understand it this morning, but all day seems a bit much.
Will I be able to claim full delay repay for the lack of services from Bletchley or does the fact the timetable has already been announced veto that? The last train is 1hr 20mins earlier than usual.
Just spotted on RealTimeTrains that there's a 22.02 from Bletchley to Northampton that misses the Long Buckby connection by 10 minutes. But it would still get me home earlier, than going via Rugby, even with 50 minutes wait at Northampton. Is there a reason this doesn't show in journey planners? I'll need to make a choice about aiming for Northampton or Rugby and don't want to make the wrong decision. I've just split the journey up and searched Bletchley to Northampton, Northampton to Long Buckby and neither train shows as an option - 22.02 from Bletchley doesn't show at all and 23.12 from Northampton shows cancelled. Weird.
I'm really shocked by the London Northwestern reduced timetable this evening. I'm off to MK to watch my team play Franchise in the FA cup, and up until this morning my journey from Long Buckby to Bletchley was 43 minutes on the way and 52 minutes on the way back.
I will now have to leave half an hour earlier as the trains are only hourly though Long Buckby. But that's not the worst of it, according to journey planners the last possible train is 21.10 from Bletchley, or around 10 minutes before the game finishes a mile and a half away!
If I go to Milton Keynes Central, it looks like the only route home is the 22.46 Avanti to Rugby, half an hour wait, then the last train back to Long Buckby. This last train has run around 40 minutes late twice this week, so it's pot luck whether it's late again (the only bright spot being they do usually run it eventually).
Does anyone know why the service has been decimated? I could understand it this morning, but all day seems a bit much.
Will I be able to claim full delay repay for the lack of services from Bletchley or does the fact the timetable has already been announced veto that? The last train is 1hr 20mins earlier than usual.
Just spotted on RealTimeTrains that there's a 22.02 from Bletchley to Northampton that misses the Long Buckby connection by 10 minutes. But it would still get me home earlier, than going via Rugby, even with 50 minutes wait at Northampton. Is there a reason this doesn't show in journey planners? I'll need to make a choice about aiming for Northampton or Rugby and don't want to make the wrong decision. I've just split the journey up and searched Bletchley to Northampton, Northampton to Long Buckby and neither train shows as an option - 22.02 from Bletchley doesn't show at all and 23.12 from Northampton shows cancelled. Weird.