This week Marylebone station is shut, to enable the points and track layout at Neadsden Junction to be remodelled. Next week the track layouts at Princes Risborough and South Ruislip / Northolt Junction are getting similar treatment.
This means that all Chiltern railways trains from Aylesbury are terminating at either Harrow-on-the-Hill or Amersham. Trains on the High Wycombe Line are either diverted to Paddington (or Didcot), or terminate at West Ruislip, for the Central Line.
Tonight the 1645 departure from Paddington was cancelled, due to a member of staff being unavailable.
I saw no Chiltern Staff at Paddington (I am not saying that there were none, I just didn't see any).
The next train, the 1718, was formed of 7 carriages and was completely rammed.
My journey home took over two hours.
Next week will be worse, with no trains at all on the High Wycombe line.
I do hope that Chiltern Railways get their act together. The occasional cancellation is understood, but to cancel a peak time train when there are only two an hour smacks of a lack of contingency planning.
Many passengers tonight have reason to be grumpy.
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