The plan is for it to go back to northern in the December 2028 timetable change.
I think, like Higham, there’s one or two weekday peaks. It might literally be just one peak hour SE from Bat and Ball to Blackfriars or something. Might be wrong, but there certainly was at one point.
Although given they are only served by TfW services, that is understandable. Avanti is the only other TOC with a station manager nearby (and it'd be unusual for an InterCity TOC to manage an off-network station), and I imagine that the Northern and EMR station managers would be quite distant from Crewe let alone those TfW stations.
XC - NE-SW - Network Rail, ScotRail*, LNER, Northern, EMR, GWR, TfW*, WMTThe TPE York - Manchester route calls at a LNER owned station, several Northern owned stations, a couple of TPE owned stations and a Network Rail owned station...I wonder if any other direct rail services can beat calling at 4 different station operators on route (I suspect a couple can match it)
Although then I remembered Aberdeen - Penzance
Burton-on-Trent was my thought too - was scrolling through the thread first to see if anyone else had commented and your post was indeed the first mentioning Burton-on-Trent!
No passenger calls for SE at Bat & Ball are showing on RTT at any time for any day of the week. One ECS working stops there!
Lydney is actually served by quite a few (13-14) Cross Country services Monday-Saturday. I've used them to get to the Dean Forest Railway! But of course XC don't count since they don't manage *any* stations, so it has to be TfW.
Didn't NSE have various sub-divisions itself, which later were combined in some fashion to form the TOCs? i.e the split probably dates back that far and renationalising isn't likely to make them all one cohesive unit.
See also: Broome, Hopton Heath, Bucknell and (technically, since the station is in England even though the town itself is in Wales) Knighton
A long time ago Epsom was LSWR only. The Southern Railway closed the LBSC's Epsom Town and created the joint station a long while back. The traditional to-ing and fro-ing continues.....!
Pretty sure it was 4tph Southern from Epsom before Covid. 2 starting from Epsom calling all stops with 1tph from Dorking & 1tph from Horsham which were more limited stop (Cheam, Sutton, Carshalton B, Clapham?).
To add to your list, I believe Kings Sutton has a few more Great Western services than Chiltern, but the station is managed by Chiltern.
Balcombe does have some SN services. A quick check on NR shows an 0632 and an 23:32 on a Sunday direct from Victoria to Balcombe. I appreciate neither are helpful for when you wish to choose how to plan your day out from Balcombe using only SN trains, but there we go!
one correction to that list: Bellingham and Crofton Park shouldn’t be on there as they’re Thameslink managed and the vast majority of their services are Thameslink operated (with the exception of a few SE operated peak time trains).
You could add Swanwick to that list, 2tph Southern Vs 1tph SWR. Like Woolston it's managed by SWR.
