December 2011 Timetable (Enrt) – Commercial Information
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National Rail Timetable Sunday 11 December 2011 to Sunday 13 May 2012 Britain's national railway network and stations are owned by Network Rail. Passenger services are operated by the Train Companies included in this Timetable, who work together closely to provide a co-ordinated National Rail network offering a range of travel opportunities. Details and identification codes are shown on the Train Operator pages. This Timetable contains rail services operated over the National Rail network, together with rail and shipping connections with Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands. Network Rail operates managed stations however the remainder are operated on their behalf by the Train Operating Companies. Details are shown in the Station Index. The Timetable Network Map shows the number of the individual table for each route. Contents Page Introduction 1 What's New? 2–3 How to use this Timetable 4–5 General Information 6 Connections 7 Train Information, Telephone Enquiries 8–9 Rail Travel for Disabled Passengers 10 Seat Reservations, Luggage, Cycles and Animals 11 Directory of Train Operators 12–40 Network Rail and Other addresses 41–42 How to Cross London 43–44 Airport Links 45–48 YOUR FEEDBACK IS VALUABLE TO US If you have any comments on the content of this book or feedback on how you feel it could be improved then please contact the Publications Manager by writing to; Victoria Fox Network Rail Floor 4 Station House Elder Gate Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire, MK9 1BB Or e-mail: [email protected] Services on Public Holidays An amended service will operate on many parts of the rail network during Public Holidays and you are strongly advised to confirm your journey details if travelling around a holiday period. For more information visit www.nationalrail.co.uk/holidays Engineering Work It is sometimes necessary to carry out essential Engineering Work which means that services may be changed, particularly late at night or at weekends to allow this work to be carried out. Engineering Work is usually planned many weeks in advance and details of changes to train times can be obtained from the National Rail Enquiries website – www.nationalrail.co.uk/engineering Copyright © 2011 Network Rail ISSN 1367 0352 The information herein is the copyright of Network Rail and may be used for correcting the times of trains and services connected therewith in any existing publication and such use should be held to be the license of Network Rail, who reserve the rights in the said information and in the form and arrangements thereof. Anyone wishing to use the information in any publication should seek the permission of Network Rail for such use. National Rail Conditions of Carriage Details of the conditions against which all National Rail tickets are issued, including the conditions which apply to the carriage of luggage and cycles can be obtained from the National Rail Enquiries website – www.nationalrail.co.uk/nrcc 1 What’s New? Welcome to the National Rail Timetable valid from Sunday 11 December 2011 to Sunday 13 May 2012. Chiltern Railways In September 2011 we launched our new Mainline service offering improved journey times - just 90 minutes between Birmingham Moor Street and London Marylebone. Our experience of running the new timetable means that we are making some further minor changes for December. East Midlands Trains On weekdays the 0610 St Pancras to Sheffield service will start at 0545 and run earlier throughout. The 0637 St Pancras to Sheffield service will call additionally at Wellingborough. The following additional weekday services will run: 0656 Ambergate to Derby 1544 Lincoln to Newark North Gate The following services will be extended: 1723 Lincoln to Grimsby will start at Newark North Gate at 1645 1825 Leicester to Nottingham will be extended to Lincoln The 0645 Nottingham to Skegness weekday service will depart earlier at 0641 to provide a connection to the East Coast train services at Grantham On Sundays, the following services will be amended to run throughout the year: 1725 Lincoln to Newark North Gate 1756 Newark to Lincoln First Great Western An additional direct service from Charlbury and Hanborough to London Paddington will operate on weekdays as we seek to maximise the customer benefits from the recent infrastructure upgrade on this route A new early morning weekday service will operate from Exeter St Davids to Par departing at 0628 calling at Dawlish, Teignmouth, Newton Abbot, Totnes, Ivybridge, Plymouth, Saltash, St Germans, Liskeard, Bodmin Parkway and Lostwithiel. Sunday services will operate to Newquay with departures at the following times: Departures from Par at 1018, 1331 and 1630 Departures from Newquay at 1112, 1510 and 1730 Connections have been improved at Liskeard between main line and Liskeard to Looe branch line services 2 National Express East Anglia West Anglia A new timetable will be introduced providing additional seating capacity on many routes. Peak services between Cambridge and London will be speeded up by 8-9 minutes and certain services will be lengthened to 12 cars and formed of new Class 379 trains. Peak services between London and Hertford East will run via Seven Sisters with limited stops. Additional peak services will run between Broxbourne and London. A new Stratford to Bishops Stortford local service will be introduced, increasing to a frequency of every 30 minutes during the course of this timetable, replacing the previous hourly Stratford to Stansted Airport service. Great Eastern Further additional capacity will be added to Great Eastern main line services. Some peak services will be lengthened from 8 to 12 cars and additional services will run from Ipswich (06.00) and Colchester Town (06.47) plus an additional off-peak service leaving Ipswich at 09.30 each running to London Liverpool Street. In the evening there will be a new service from London to Harwich International at 1932 which will form a convenient connection into the overnight Stena Line ship to the Hook of Holland. The current gap in morning Sudbury branch line services will be filled by a new 0909 Marks Tey to Sudbury service and 0929 return. Northern Buckshaw Parkway station opened in October 2011. Located between Chorley and Leyland stations on the Manchester to Preston and Blackpool route (Table 82) it is served by three trains an hour in each direction, two Northern services and one First TransPennine Express. From December 2011 the Preston – Ormskirk timetable (Table 99) will be revised to provide a more even, broadly 90 minute interval service and later last services in each direction. Sherburn-in-Elmet, in the Vale of York, will be served by significantly more trains on the York – Selby /Hull route allowing later connections from York. ScotRail Due to the Olympic Games, ScotRail’s timetable will run for one year, from 11 December 2011 – 8 December 2012. Additional services will include; two in each direction between Glasgow/Edinburgh – Inverness (on Sundays as well as every weekday); up to three services between Glasgow – Dundee; three more trains, each way, between Girvan – Ayr; and one peak Elgin – Inverness morning service. There will also be up to five more calls in each direction at Broughty Ferry. Southern Following infrastructure upgrades to enable longer trains to run, some trains will be extended up to 10 cars on the Sydenham to London Bridge route and extended up to 12 cars on the East Grinstead to London Bridge and Victoria route. Associated with this there are some minor changes to peak train services in the Metro area and on the Mainline. 3 How to use this Timetable Some tables are self-contained (such as Table 1 London–Shoeburyness) showing every train running between any two stations on the route. Train journey lengths vary from the under ¾ mile Stourbridge Town to Stourbridge Junction shuttle to the 773 mile Aberdeen to Penzance service. To show details of longer-distance services in a single table, short-distance services are omitted, these appearing in separate 'composite' tables. WHICH TABLE? General Layout of the Timetable There are several ways of finding the correct table(s) for a journey. Tables start with the north bank of the Thames and radiate anti-clockwise around London as far as the south bank (Table 212, London-Faversham-Margate) with non-London tables (like the Cardiff Valleys) placed close to the appropriate London route. Internal Scottish routes follow from Table 216. Tables numbered 400-406 cover domestic Sleeper services. Once familiar with to this geographic layout, required tables can usually be found with relative ease, but there are more precise methods: Using the Index Look up your destination. If it appears in up to five tables, those tables are listed (for example Hilsea appears in Tables 156, 157, 158, 165 and 188). If it appears in six or more then there may be sub-divisions. If your destination is sub- divided in this way and your origin is NOT shown (for example Shipley is not shown under Lancaster) then look up the origin instead as it probably has fewer tables. Alongside the station name is shown a two character code indicating which operator is responsible for operating the facilities at that station (see also Train Operator pages). Using the Timetable Network Map If your journey is more complicated and involves several changes between tables, the Timetable Network Map will be very useful. For example, to plan a journey from North Berwick to Pontypridd one would not expect to find both in the same table. The map makes it clear that one has to change at Edinburgh and Cardiff and, as there is no through service between North Berwick and Pontypridd, allows one to look up possible routes, for example, via Crewe and Shrewsbury (Tables 65 and 131), Crewe and Birmingham (Tables 57 and 65) or York and Birmingham (Tables 51 and 57).