.... It's changed - the advertised services are now the hourly off-peak xx: 10 ECR-WFJ and xx:51 return, so Southern won't be going back to Milton Keynes Central so soon. In all honestly I couldn't figure out how the Southern services would be pathed into said station before the new layout is fully comissioned during the ...

paul.weaver.ibc@googlemail.com wrote: The issues has been discussed before, I'm of the opinion that a London Terminals ticket is valid via WLL to Vauxhall (Routing point of Clapham Junction), but I doubt it's true. On any of the online rail planners, if I request a ticket from Milton Keynes to Vauxhall, avoiding Euston, they sell me a Milton Keynes to London Terminals ticket...

... services. It's changed - the advertised services are now the hourly off-peak xx: 10 ECR-WFJ and xx:51 return, so Southern won't be going back to Milton Keynes Central so soon. In all honestly I couldn't figure out how the Southern services would be pathed into said station before the new layout is fully comissioned during the Christmas/...

... way from MK to EC, change trains at Clapham Junction and get a fast train from there to EC. Wonder if it will be popular? SN First and standard class Milton Keynes Central 11:13 Bletchley 11:17a 11:17d Leighton Buzzard 11:24a 11:24d Tring 11:34a 11:34d Berkhamsted 11:39a 11:39d ...

...: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:45:06 -0700 (PDT), MIG <googlespam@doreenbird.co.uk> wrote: Certainly nothing significantly faster, stopping at both Watford and Milton Keynes, than the Southern service is likely to be, one would hope. Not given that the main service from MK to Watford is an almost-all-stations ...

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:45:06 -0700 (PDT), MIG <googlespam@doreenbird.co.uk> wrote: Certainly nothing significantly faster, stopping at both Watford and Milton Keynes, than the Southern service is likely to be, one would hope. Not given that the main service from MK to Watford is an almost-all-stations local service. A...

...: I'm not getting any through journeys on theTrainline quick timetable for Olympia to Milton Keynes.  (NRE hasn't got anything yet.) They're on NXEC. So it seems like TheTrainLine is still... service to Watford most of the time. Certainly nothing significantly faster, stopping at both Watford and Milton Keynes, than the Southern service is likely to be, one would hope.

Peter Masson wrote: From Milton Keynes to East Croydon it's 8 minutes quicker than the nearest equivalent in the current timetable: When the predecessor to this service first launched (Rugby<->Gatwick) I'm sure it was advertised as offering journey times of 100 minutes from Northampton to Gatwick (or was it MK to Gatwick). Now it's 104 minutes from Milton Keynes to East Croydon... That's progress.

...changing trains! If the connection works.  If it doesn't, you're immediately an hour later. From Milton Keynes to East Croydon it's 8 minutes quicker than the nearest equivalent in the current timetable: Milton Keynes d1113 Watford Junc   a1154                       (change) Watford Junc   d1211 East Croydon   a1307 It looks as though the current hanging about...

... than changing trains! If the connection works. If it doesn't, you're immediately an hour later. From Milton Keynes to East Croydon it's 8 minutes quicker than the nearest equivalent in the current timetable: Milton Keynes d1113 Watford Junc a1154 (change) Watford Junc d1211 East Croydon a1307 It looks as though the current hanging about at Clapham ...