Route-wide timetable changes on Sunday.
An enhanced Chiltern Railways service will operate between Marylebone - Birmingham Moor Street, with lengthened and some additional trains.
Some rail replacement buses will be in operation:
- On the Metropolitan Line route (via Amersham) all day on Sunday
- Between Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday
- At Hatton, Lapworth and Kings Sutton on Sunday.
- Most journeys involving a rail replacement bus will take longer than normal.
Please check your journey carefully before you travel and see further detailed information below regarding the service alterations this weekend.
A short video from Tony Baxter, Interim Managing Director.
Please scroll further down the page to see a map that summarises these service alterations.
Sunday 20th September 2026:
An amended timetable will be in operation, in respect of the following:
- Euston - Birmingham New Street route closure.
An enhanced Chiltern Railways service will operate between Marylebone - Birmingham Moor Street, with lengthened and some additional trains.
Due to over-length trains, Kings Sutton, Hatton and Lapworth will be served by rail replacement buses as follows:
- Bicester North - Kings Sutton - Banbury.
- Warwick Parkway - Hatton - Lapworth - Dorridge.
- These buses should be used for local journeys to/from Kings Sutton, Hatton and Lapworth ONLY.
Rail replacement buses will also operate between Leamington Spa - Warwick - Stratford Upon Avon Parkway - Stratford Upon Avon for the entire day, connecting with trains at Leamington Spa.
In connection with the Euston - Birmingham New Street route closure, no Chiltern Railways train services will operate between Marylebone and Aylesbury Vale Parkway (via Amersham). Rail replacement buses will operate as follows, connecting with London Underground Metropolitan Line services to/from Baker Street at Amersham.
- Amersham - Great Missenden - Wendover - Stoke Mandeville - Aylesbury - Aylesbury Vale Parkway.
Online journey planners have been updated for each of these changes.
