Heatwave travel information - We strongly advise you to avoid travelling if possible

Information about this week's concerts at Wembley Stadium is available here.

Service amendments due to extreme Hot Weather

The Met Office has issued a Red heat warning for Wednesday & Thursday (24 & 25 June). Very hot weather is expected to continue into Friday (26 June), with a Red heat warning now covering the southern part of our network.

With such widespread and severe weather potentially damaging the rail infrastructure, trains will be running at greatly reduced levels (fewer than 50% of normal levels on some routes) on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 and Friday 26 June to ensure everyone's safety. This means there may be significant delays and very busy conditions.

For most of Friday, we will be running the same or a very similar timetable as we have done on Wednesday & Thursday. This timetable is now available in online journey planners and is available to download below. Further direct trains to / from Wembley Stadium station have been added which are visible in online journey planners.

We strongly advise you to avoid travelling if possible. Trains are running at a greatly reduced levels to ensure everyone's safety, which means you may experience significant delays and very busy conditions.

Ticket arrangements and refunds

Friday 26 June: Customers travelling today with pre-purchased Super Off-Peak or Off-Peak tickets may travel today on Chiltern Railways services without any time-restrictions.
Tickets valid for travel on Tuesday 23, Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 or Friday 26 June will be valid until Tuesday 30 June.
If you no longer wish to travel, Chiltern tickets dated 23, 24, 25 or 26 June will be eligible for a full refund from where you bought your ticket.

Refunds

You are reminded that you have the option to cancel your journey and get a refund on your ticket, if you have not used it to travel. You should return your unused Ticket to the original retailer or Train Company from whom it was purchased, where you will be given a full refund with no administration fee charged.

For customers holding tickets for Tuesday 23, Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 or Friday 26 June 2026 who chose not to travel at all, you will be able to claim a full refund, with no admin fee charged. This refund must be applied for within 28 days, from and paid by the original retailer.

If you have a Return ticket and you do not/cannot make your outward journey because of disruption, you are permitted a refund on your ticket even if the return journey is not affected by disruption caused by the weather. The same will be true if the return journey is planned for a day affected by the weather but the outward is not.

Season Tickets including Flexi Season Tickets

Applicable if any part of the journey involves an impacted train operator, including Chiltern Railways

Usual Delay Repay arrangements apply. As we have strongly advised customers to avoid travelling if possible, on the affected days, Season Ticket holders will be able to claim a 100% pro-rata refund, per day that any customer follows this advice and does not travel.

Season ticket holders should apply using our Delay Repay Form selecting "Did not travel" when asked about the length of your delay.

If you are unable to use the tickets on your Flexi Season due to the heatwave travel advice, you must wait until the Flexi Season has expired. If at this point, there are tickets still unused, you can contact us via the Contact Us form to refund any remaining tickets. If you have activated your ticket and then realised you can not travel, you can contact us from the Contact Us form and we will validate that the ticket was not used by checking tap data and refund that days travel. If you do not use the ticket on one or more of the days affected by industrial action, but then use them on a future date before the expiry of the ticket, there is no loss to you and therefore no refund due if all tickets are used prior to expiry.

Service summary information in an image (replicated in text on page)

Chiltern Railways
Friday 26 June 2026

Summary of service changes
(both directions)

Services between Birmingham and London Marylebone

Very few services will run north of Birmingham Moor Street
Throughout the day, fewer than 50% of services will run. This includes at morning and evening peak times.

Services between Oxford and London Marylebone

Throughout the day, fewer than 50% of services will run. This includes at morning and evening peak times.

Services between Aylesbury and London Marylebone (via Amersham)

Throughout the day, fewer than 50% of services will run. This includes at morning and evening peak times.

We plan to run normal timetabled services on the following local routes:

Princes Risborough - Aylesbury
Stratford-upon-Avon - Leamington Spa (services will terminate at Warwick heading South, but will start from Leamington Spa as normal)
Birmingham Moor Street - Leamington Spa (services will terminate at Warwick heading South, but will start from Leamington Spa as normal)

A track defect just outside Leamington Spa station means that fewer trains than normal are able to run over the specific stretch of line. Trains on the two 'shuttle' routes mentioned above, heading towards Leamington Spa, will terminate at Warwick. Customers wishing to continue towards Leamington Spa or beyond will need to change to the following through service at Warwick. Journey planners will be accurate for this alteration by the start of each impacted day.

No trains will call at Sudbury Hill Harrow or at Sudbury & Harrow Road.

Temperatures are expected to be exceptionally high.

Changes may be made on the day, so please Check Before you Travel.

Train times are available in online journey planners. PDF versions of the timetables are available to view and download using the links below.

Timetables for Friday 26 June are available to download here.

These files are in pdf format (not suitable for screen reader technology)

Update 26 June: The pdf timetables include details of the additional calls and trains at Wembley Stadium station, as well as service amendments between Warwick & Leamington Spa. Online journey planners are up-to-date for today.

Events are happening over the coming days, which may affect our customers.

Please select the link(s) below to find out more information:

Hot Weather service amendments (see above)
Wembley Stadium - Concerts (Harry Styles) on Friday 26 June and Saturday 27 June. There will be an enhanced train service at Wembley Stadium station. Amended services on each day. Dedicated Wembley Stadium travel information page here.
Sunday 28 June - Amended timetables due to the line between Wembley Stadium and Princes Risborough being closed until 09:10 for late notice engineering work and Oxford station being closed all day for planned engineering works. Please see below for more information.

Please check your journey before you travel.

Sunday 28th June 2026:

An amended timetable will be in operation, in respect of the following:

Emergency engineering works.
(Signalling works between West Ruislip and High Wycombe).
Planned engineering works.
(Track works at Oxford).

The railway is closed between Wembley Stadium and Princes Risborough until 09.10; this is a late-notice, emergency closure. Train services between Maryelbone and stations to Princes Risborough will start later than usual.

First through trains TO Marylebone on this route are as follows:

Banbury 08.32 - Bicester North 08.47 - Haddenham & Thame Parkway 09.00 - Princes Risborough 09.11 - High Wycombe 09.21 - Beaconsfield 09.27 - Gerrards Cross 09.34 - Denham 09.38 - Wembley Stadium 09.49 - Marylebone 10.03.
(Bus from Oxford dep 08.00) - Oxford Parkway 08.48 - Islip 08.52 - Bicester Village 09.00 - Haddenham & Thame Parkway 09.14 - Saunderton 09.24 - High Wycombe - 09.32 - Beaconsfield 09.39 - Gerrards Cross 09.46 - Marylebone 10.07.

First through trains FROM Marylebone on this route are as follows:

Marylebone 09.04 - High Wycombe 09.29 - Princes Risborough 09.38 - Haddenham & Thame Parkway 09.45 - Bicester North 09.58 - Banbury 10.12 - stations to Birmingham Moor Street (11.10).
Marylebone 09.12 - Wembley Stadium 09.22 - Denham 09.33 - Gerrards Cross 09.38 - Beaconsfield 09.45 - High Wycombe 09.52 - Haddenham & Thame Parkway 10.07 - Bicester Village 10.23 - Oxford Parkway 10.33 (bus to Oxford 11.20).

Additionally, the railway is closed between Oxford Parkway and Oxford all day, affecting all services to/from Oxford. Rail replacement buses will operate between Oxford - Oxford Parkway and/or Oxford - Bicester North.

Exceptionally hot weather is forecast over the next few days. To help you have a safe and more comfortable journey, please check out our Hot Weather advice.