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Information and Tickets, Provision of Travel information during the journey, Our trains have signage above the internal doors, giving information about the location and availability of onboard toilets. Information regarding the next station will be announced onboard and through customer information screens. In the case of delays there will be information announced at appropriate intervals and further information can be found on our website via,…
Our free Wifi uses several 3G and 4G signals, so the quality of the internet connection will vary depending on where you are along our route and how many people are using the free WiFi at any one time. If you lose your connection, we're probably just passing through an area with a weak signal. If this happens, there is no need to reconnect once the signal improves - you'll be connected again automatically.
Marylebone station will be closed all day on Sunday 10th June, with some trains diverted to London Paddington. Customers are advised to check their journey. Chiltern Railways is reminding customers that Marylebone station will be closed on Sunday 10th June for track improvement work to take place in the Neasden area. This will mean that customers may experience a longer journey than normal as an amended timetable will be in operation on all…,…
16 Aug 2017 17:17 Preparation for the brand new high-speed railway will take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 August 2017. As a result, London Euston station will be closed and trains and stations on the Chiltern line are expected to be extremely busy. Residents on the Aylesbury via Amersham line are advised that trains will run at a reduced service during the works. Additionally, buses will replace trains…,…
16 Aug 2017 17:23 Preparation for the brand new high-speed railway will take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 August 2017. As a result, Euston station will be closed and trains and stations on the Chiltern line are expected to be extremely busy. Customers from the Oxford area are advised to check the timetable for amended times during the works. For those travelling to the Challenge Cup Final on 26 August…,…
Charity's artwork featured on Chiltern Railways' new timetable Chiltern Railways have teamed up with Stratford-upon-Avon based charity Escape Arts to help create the artwork for their latest timetables. The full timetable’s front cover includes the artists’ favourite things about Stratford and celebrates the extra services that Chiltern have added between London Marylebone and Stratford-upon-Avon, more than doubling the number of direct trains…
16 Aug 2017 17:18, Preparation for the brand new high-speed railway will take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 August 2017. As a result, Euston station will be closed and trains and stations on the Chiltern line are expected to be extremely busy. Buckinghamshire residents who commute to and from railway stations between Haddenham & Thame Parkway and Marylebone are advised to check the timetable for…
Improvements for Silver Sets, Improvements for Silver Sets, From late-July until early-2020, we will be running a program of heavy maintenance work on each of our four silver set trains. Customers who normally travel on the 0710 Kidderminster to London Marylebone and the 1615 London Marylebone to Kidderminster are most likely to notice this as their silver train will be replaced with another train. Each silver train will go away, one at a time,…
HybridFLEX train Chiltern Railways and partners invest in green HybridFLEX train, delivering emission-free battery operation, reducing CO2 (¯25%), nitrous oxide (¯70%) and particulates (¯90%) Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris MP is supporting the launch event at Marylebone station, before key stakeholders travel on board HybridFLEX, Britain’s first hybrid battery-diesel train Chiltern – the operator of train services between Birmingham,…,…
Cleaner cleaning handrail on train On Wednesday 20th October 2021 we are celebrating, Thank Your Cleaner Day,, an international day to take time to appreciate the hard, often unseen, work cleaning teams undertake. Here at Chiltern Railways, we have always been tremendously proud of our cleaning teams, who take great pride in their work to ensure our services and stations are clean, safe and welcoming to both customers and staff alike. Although…
We're supporting Mind Chiltern Railways is proud to announce that mental health charity, Mind has been chosen as 2018’s charity of the year. Each year, the train operator and its staff work with a different charity to raise funds and awareness, partnering to support them with events and social media campaigns. In 2017, Chiltern worked with both Bowel Cancer UK and Brake, the road safety charity, where they helped raise over £24,000. Dave Penney…
Plaque at moor street to celebrare 20 years since it got listed status A leading figure from the Moor Street Historical Society has revealed a plaque at Moor Street station to mark the group’s efforts 20 years ago in gaining listed building status for the station. Dr Bernard Juby, was the Chairman of the Moor Street Historical Society, which was set up in 1988 after the station had fallen into disrepair following British Rail closing it in…
** East West Rail - Oxford to Milton Keynes – Passenger Service Update ** , Since being announced as operator of the first stage of East West Rail between Oxford and Milton Keynes in March, we have been working at pace to get everything ready for services to begin on the new line. Significant progress has been made, including the hiring and training of 44 train drivers, the creation of a new colleague facility at Bletchley, and the fit out…
Friends of Bicester North Station Commuters travelling through Bicester North station on Tuesday 6 February would have noticed a hive of activity in the garden on the London-bound platform. Thanks to the launch of Chiltern Railways’ latest Station Friends Group, the activity was the first-ever working party of the Friends of Bicester North Station community group which has convened to give the station’s garden a makeover. The group have come…
Chiltern Railways Earth Day 2020 At Chiltern Railways, we know that we have to look ahead if we’re to safeguard the requirements of generations to come. We’ve worked hard over the last 18 months to take our sustainability agenda to the next level, applying creative solutions to real problems in order to make a real difference. In February last year, after research revealed that just one in 400 takeaway coffee cups in the UK were being recycled,…
Chiltern Railways reopen Dorridge Station waiting room after heritage refurbishment Chiltern Railways has officially reopened Dorridge station waiting room following several months of refurbishment work to restore the heritage of the station. The train operator have worked with the Friends of Dorridge Station community group to match the quality and heritage of the waiting room on platform one which was transformed several years ago. The…
16 Aug 2017 17:21, Preparation for the brand new high-speed railway will take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 August 2017. As a result, London Euston station will be closed and trains and stations on the Chiltern line are expected to be extremely busy. An amended timetable will run on these dates, and customers from the Banbury area are strongly advised to avoid travel to and from stations north of Banbury,…
Network Rail to install lifts at Warwick Station, What's Happening?, Works at the station were started in February 2023 to install two new lifts at Warwick station to improve accessibility for customers. As part of this project; the subway will also be extended to create a new set of stairs on platform 1., The subway will reopen on 19 June 2025., Will access to the station be impacted?, At the point of opening the subway from platform 1, the…
Snow heroes at Leamington Spa While snow, wind and freezing temperatures caused havoc across the UK over the past week, staff at Chiltern Railways were warmed by a huge amount of praise from the online community. The train operator demonstrated some of the values that earned them the Train Operator of the Year award at the 2018 Rail Business Awards, with staff at both Chiltern Railways and Network Rail going above and beyond to keep the…
At High Wycombe station from Monday 13 August until Saturday 18 August we will be replacing the existing car park lighting with new energy efficient LED lighting., What are the benefits of LED lighting?, It has a long-life span and costs less to maintain It's energy efficient. We hope to see a significant reduction in energy consumption It's environmentally safe The new lighting quality will improve visibility and meet industry safety LUX levels…