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Princes Risborough commuter blasts new train timetable
7:50am Friday 16th November 2012 in News By Rebecca Cain
Commuter blasts new train timetable
A PRINCES Risborough commuter has slammed the new Chiltern Railways timetable saying she will get a worse service for her money.
Isabella Darnton works in London and travels from Princes Risborough during the week.
She said the new timetable has left a gaping hole between 7.14pm and 7.44pm and has got rid of one of the most used services, the 7.28am non-stop service.
She said: "There aren't very many options. The best one and the only one which made any sense has been scrapped- it is really frustrating.
"There are so many people who get that train- I know I am not alone in that."
She pays £3,940 a year, which includes the tube.
With the new timetable Isabella will need to get the 7.14am service, which gets in at 7.59am, meaning she will get to Marylebone at around the same time but make the journey nine minutes longer. The 7.28am gets in at 8.04am.
At the moment there is a 7.37am service where commuters needed to change at High Wycombe and gets to London at 8.24am. This will be replaced with the 7.44am with no changes which gets in at 8.25am.
The consultation proposed a 7.33am service but this is not on the new timetable.
The train company said they have added an additional non-stop 6.53am service, which gets in at 7.33am.
The new timetable is now available to view online and will begin on December 9.
Chiltern Railways said there will be more than 600 extra peak time seats into London and 5,000 extra seat at weekends across the network.
More than 700 people responded to the public consultation earlier in the year on the proposed changes.
Following an assessment of the responses, it introduced some changes.
As well as the 6.53am the company has retimed a train to remove a long gap in the evening for commuters travelling from London to Little Kimble.
The consultation also highlighted concerns about the off peak service at Seer Green and Jordans following changes to the timetable in May.
But Chiltern Railways said the average number of passengers on these services was five passengers per train, so there will continue to be an hourly service in the December timetable.
However, the 7.48pm train from London Marylebone will now stop at the station.
The timetable is available online as of last Friday at www.chilternrailways.co.uk or hard copies will be available at stations from November 23.
Comments(13)
miccles
says...
9:13am Fri 16 Nov 12
Isabella my heart bleeds for you, you will have to catch a train 14 minutes earlier in the morning, and the whole journey will be 9 minutes longer, Isabella, how are you going to cope with this terrible and drastic situation, i'm going to be so worried about how you will cope.
Best thing to do is, get on with it, and stop your moaning, i can tell what sort of person you are, the one that expects everything for nothing.
Risborough Dave
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10:11am Fri 16 Nov 12
I have to commute for work. I work 8.30-5.30 in the West End (Doesn't sound unusual does it?).
I have struggled to afford the huge price increases in season tickets over the last 3 years which were justified to pay for investment in a better service (faster, more regular trains). The new timetable is as slow as before the "investment" and now has less trains especially at the times I travel.
Because of these thoughtless, money-grabbing changes to morning and evening services I will not now see my kids in the morning and I will now not see my kids in the evening either. Five days a week. At least I see them twice a day at present.
So don't have a go at Isabella just because the BFP did a poor job of representing her and a lot of other peoples' views.
motco
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11:22am Fri 16 Nov 12
WORST! Surely even a poorly educated journo knows it's 'worse'?
Risborough 14
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5:57pm Fri 16 Nov 12
miccles wrote:Moaning!! - Pot calling the Kettle Black as they'd say on the 7.14 .. all of your boring rants on this site are limp, dull and repetitive moans about Risborough one way system - when was the last time you said anything interesting and meaningful - not sure how you've got the nerve tell somebody to stop moaning - eat your own BS
"With the new timetable Isabella will need to get the 7.14am service, which gets in at 7.59am, meaning she will get to Marylebone at around the same time but make the journey nine minutes longer"
Isabella my heart bleeds for you, you will have to catch a train 14 minutes earlier in the morning, and the whole journey will be 9 minutes longer, Isabella, how are you going to cope with this terrible and drastic situation, i'm going to be so worried about how you will cope.
Best thing to do is, get on with it, and stop your moaning, i can tell what sort of person you are, the one that expects everything for nothing.
YorksDavey
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6:24pm Fri 16 Nov 12
miccles
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7:06am Sat 17 Nov 12
Risborough 14 wrote:There is nothing interesting and meaningful to say about Princes Risborough, because people like you have ruined it, full stop, need i say more?
miccles wrote:Moaning!! - Pot calling the Kettle Black as they'd say on the 7.14 .. all of your boring rants on this site are limp, dull and repetitive moans about Risborough one way system - when was the last time you said anything interesting and meaningful - not sure how you've got the nerve tell somebody to stop moaning - eat your own BS
"With the new timetable Isabella will need to get the 7.14am service, which gets in at 7.59am, meaning she will get to Marylebone at around the same time but make the journey nine minutes longer"
Isabella my heart bleeds for you, you will have to catch a train 14 minutes earlier in the morning, and the whole journey will be 9 minutes longer, Isabella, how are you going to cope with this terrible and drastic situation, i'm going to be so worried about how you will cope.
Best thing to do is, get on with it, and stop your moaning, i can tell what sort of person you are, the one that expects everything for nothing.
"Moaning!! - Pot calling the Kettle Black as they'd say on the 7.14 .. all of your boring rants on this site are limp, dull and repetitive moans about Risborough one way system - when was the last time you said anything interesting and meaningful - not sure how you've got the nerve tell somebody to stop moaning - eat your own BS”
Moaning, please read your comment to me again, and again, that is "moaning", you sound, and probably are, so so sad, just what you have done to Princes Risborough.
Whiteleaf
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8:48am Sat 17 Nov 12
Marmite XO
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8:53am Sat 17 Nov 12
Marmite XO
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9:00am Sat 17 Nov 12
Risborough 14
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11:32am Sat 17 Nov 12
miccles wrote:Miccles - i presume you've given your carer the weekend off - I throw a stick, would you F 0
Risborough 14 wrote:There is nothing interesting and meaningful to say about Princes Risborough, because people like you have ruined it, full stop, need i say more?
miccles wrote:Moaning!! - Pot calling the Kettle Black as they'd say on the 7.14 .. all of your boring rants on this site are limp, dull and repetitive moans about Risborough one way system - when was the last time you said anything interesting and meaningful - not sure how you've got the nerve tell somebody to stop moaning - eat your own BS
"With the new timetable Isabella will need to get the 7.14am service, which gets in at 7.59am, meaning she will get to Marylebone at around the same time but make the journey nine minutes longer"
Isabella my heart bleeds for you, you will have to catch a train 14 minutes earlier in the morning, and the whole journey will be 9 minutes longer, Isabella, how are you going to cope with this terrible and drastic situation, i'm going to be so worried about how you will cope.
Best thing to do is, get on with it, and stop your moaning, i can tell what sort of person you are, the one that expects everything for nothing.
"Moaning!! - Pot calling the Kettle Black as they'd say on the 7.14 .. all of your boring rants on this site are limp, dull and repetitive moans about Risborough one way system - when was the last time you said anything interesting and meaningful - not sure how you've got the nerve tell somebody to stop moaning - eat your own BS”
Moaning, please read your comment to me again, and again, that is "moaning", you sound, and probably are, so so sad, just what you have done to Princes Risborough.
s6blr
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9:22am Sun 18 Nov 12
Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaa
MrsKissenger
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7:55pm Sun 18 Nov 12
Welwyn Dowd says...
9:07am Fri 16 Nov 12
I's like to take this opportunity to publicise my new work - "The 0710 from High Wycombe stopping at Beaconsfield, Seer Green and Jordans, Gerrards Cross, Denham, Denham Golf Club, West Ruislip, South Ruislip and Wembley Stadium - its sociological and psychological significance on the anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive and journalistically challenged individual." Out now in hardback, Kindle and soon to be serialised in the Bucks Free Press.
Reviewers comments:
Not as good as his last one, not enough about trains - Ivor