Trains and Planes and Automobiles
Friday, August 27th, 2004 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI have in front of me an A5 sized tome containing 87 pages of timetables and a couple of pages of maps and advice, entitled West Coast Route Modernisation - August Bank Holiday Engineering Work 2004. It is published by Virgin Trains and is available free from their kiosk at Euston Station.
The whole is well-presented and contains a great deal of information, but the only really useful bit is page 4. The rest of the document is rendered pointless by this.
Effectively, for the period Saturday 28 August (tomorrow by crackey) to Sunday 5 September there are no trains into or from London Euston, and virtually none in the West Midlands area, particularly south of Birmingham.
The most useful paragraph in the book is this:
If you are travelling from the West Midlands to London (and by extension in the reverse direction) we recommend that you use Chiltern Railways services from Birmingham Snow Hill or Moor Street to London Marylebone.
There are similar paragraphs covering journeys from Scotland and the North West. Essentially Virgin Rail is saying 'don't use us, use our competitors.'
Good to know.
Next weekend is NWO. If you're in the South East and not using a car, take the Chiltern line and change at Brum. It will save your nerves a great deal of wear.
The whole is well-presented and contains a great deal of information, but the only really useful bit is page 4. The rest of the document is rendered pointless by this.
Effectively, for the period Saturday 28 August (tomorrow by crackey) to Sunday 5 September there are no trains into or from London Euston, and virtually none in the West Midlands area, particularly south of Birmingham.
The most useful paragraph in the book is this:
If you are travelling from the West Midlands to London (and by extension in the reverse direction) we recommend that you use Chiltern Railways services from Birmingham Snow Hill or Moor Street to London Marylebone.
There are similar paragraphs covering journeys from Scotland and the North West. Essentially Virgin Rail is saying 'don't use us, use our competitors.'
Good to know.
Next weekend is NWO. If you're in the South East and not using a car, take the Chiltern line and change at Brum. It will save your nerves a great deal of wear.