07.15 train to leave earlier
First Great Western has announced that the 07.15 train to London Paddington, which starts at Charlbury, will leave three minutes earlier from Monday 4th March.
The service has been the least reliable of the morning trains in recent months, often being cancelled and starting from Oxford. A small group of Oxford commuters have asked FGW for the Charlbury start to be dropped entirely.
Instead, FGW is adjusting the timetable to give more leeway. The 07.13 Worcester train will now have more slack between Didcot and Charlbury, dropping its Radley stop entirely and leaving Oxford earlier, so that it is less likely to get in the way of the London train on the single line.
FGW managing director Mark Hopwood said: "Due to a number of challenges performance on our services in this area has not been up to the standard we expect to deliver for our customers. We are working with Network Rail to improve the situation and these changes are just one of many ways we are working to provide a more punctual service."
Richard Fairhurst · Thu 21 Feb 2013, 22:37 · Link