Rail passengers are being urged to only travel on Thursday if it is essential, as high temperatures are likely to cause significant disruption, a train company says.<\/p>\n
Chiltern Railways (CR) said a reduced timetable would be in place between 11:00 and 20:00 to “ensure the most reliable service during the hottest part of the day”.<\/p>\n
Off-peak services between London Marylebone and Birmingham Moor Street will be operating hourly. <\/p>\n
Michael Stewart, from CR, said: “If you do need to travel, please check your journey before setting out, allow extra time and carry water with you to stay hydrated.”<\/p>\n
Throughout the day, some services between London Marylebone and Oxford will be cancelled, no Chiltern services will operator from Birmingham Snow Hill after 10:15, and Leamington Spa to Birmingham Moor Street shuttle services will not run after 11:00.<\/p>\n
Customers with tickets for Thursday can use can use them on Friday 14 or Saturday 15 August instead.<\/p>\n
However, if customers no longer wish to travel, tickets dated for Thursday will be eligible for a full fee-free refund from where they were purchased, the railway operator said.<\/p>\n
Stewart added: “We are asking customers to travel only if it’s essential on Thursday because of the exceptionally high temperatures forecast across our network.<\/p>\n
“By operating a reduced timetable during the hottest part of the day, we can provide a more reliable and comfortable service for customers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail passengers are being urged to only travel on Thursday if it is essential, as high temperatures are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}