Hello everyone, I have a quick question regarding the state of the GWR Didcot-Oxford services calling at Culham station after the timetable change. According to RealTimeTrains and GWR website, the service at Culham compared to pre-covid times will actually improve, from 29 to 33 trains a day and getting close to an hourly service most of the day. The biggest change is the lack of extended service to Reading at peak times, as the route becomes more self-contained. However, RTT also shows 9 additional "unadvertised" services. All of these services include Reading as a destination, and 6 of them are just extensions of the existing service, with the same IDs (i.e. 2L15). The remaining 3 services are additional services that would plug up gaps in the timetable. Does anyone know what this means from a practical perspective? I know that this route is a recurring problem for GWR given the electrification debacle and that it will also not get 769s (making Reading extensions less justified), but does this suggest that GWR is considering these additional extensions and routes throughout the timetable period depending on passenger numbers?
Train information at Culham all day on 02/06/2021. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
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