Reduced summer timetable on South Western Railway
They added that since the transfer to public ownership, a new trains programme has been unlocked and 14 Arterios are in daily service.The timetable reduction will help protect the driver training programme, while also minimising the risk of on-the-day cancellations due to "colleagues taking their annual leave during the school holidays", the spokesperson said.SWR would only state an amended timetable would run on the following routes:AltonChessington SouthGuildford via Cobham & Stoke D'AbernonGuildford via WokingHampton CourtLondon Waterloo via RichmondReadingSheppertonWeybridge via ChertseyWindsor & Eton RiversideWoking (stopping services)
Earlier this year, the BBC used the Freedom of Information Act to try to uncover the total public cost of the delay in delivering a new fleet of trains, including the additional cost of keeping older trains running.But the Department for Transport responded that, although it did hold the information, it would not reveal the cost.It said the number would "prejudice the commercial interests of South Western Railway and the department".
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