Fed up commuters have been handing out thousands of leaflets across Gerrards Cross in a campaign to get Chiltern Railways to reintroduce train services to peak hours.

Regular users of Chiltern Railways are angry that there are now two fewer trains leaving Gerrards Cross in the mornings between 6.30am and 8am and say the decrease has resulted in overcrowded trains since the company made major changes to the timetable in October last year.

As well as displaying facts about the changes in the peak hour services, the posters, distributed by a group of campaigners called ‘Gerrards Cross Commuters’ asks users if they are happy with the revised timetable.

Calling for frustrated commuters to come forward and share their views, the posters say: “We are a small group whose aims are to collate input from Gerrards Cross commuters and to work collaboratively with Chiltern Rail to try and improve our services.

“Peak hour services are now insufficient in number and capacity and the intervals between services are too irregular.

“We are working with similar groups in Beaconsfield, South Ruislip and Denham to discuss the impact on South Bucks rail services.”

Despite making some changes to the service in December, commuters are still unhappy with the service, with one frustrated train user from Chalfont St Giles now considering driving to Watford Junction to catch a service from there.

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In an email sent to Chiltern Railways managing director Dave Penney with the Bucks Free Press and MPs Steve Baker, Dominic Grieve and Cheryl Gillan copied in, commuter Rob Barber said the service has become “less reliable with more cancellations and late running trains” since the timetable changed and said the service “was excellent” before.

Mr Barber is now so unhappy with the service, he is now trialling a drive to Watford Junction to catch a train into Euston and says he is “counting down the days until Crossrail is operational allowing us, and I would imagine a large proportion of our fellow travellers, the opportunity to catch the train from Iver.”

Commuters will be given a chance to air their views to Mr Penney tomorrow morning from 8am to 9am, when he will be taking part in a ‘tweet the boss’ session on Twitter, using #ttbdave.