August 8th - A tale of three stations
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
London Euston, London King's Cross and London St Pancras International. I've visited them all this morning to explain what will happen to intercity trains on north-south routes over the impending August bank holiday weekend. Network Rail engineering work will lead to some interesting changes. A mention, too, for London Paddington to South Wales services, diverted via Gloucester from 24 to 26 August.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast and I'm beginning at London-Euston Station. |
| 0:09.7 | A familiar stop if you are, kind enough to be a regular listener to this podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | And the reason I'm here is to bring you up to date on what is going to be happening with the August Bank Holiday |
| 0:23.2 | Rail Engineering Works. Yes, once again, 24th to the 26th of August over the bank holiday |
| 0:32.2 | weekend is when you can expect less than a perfect service on the West coast main line which runs from here to the west midlands |
| 0:41.3 | northwest england north wales and southern scotland there are going to be a fewer trains particularly |
| 0:49.7 | from here to manchester and to birmingham and of course in the opposite direction because of work |
| 0:55.6 | at various points on the line, notably between here and Wembley Central, but also on the route |
| 1:02.0 | through Stoke-on-Trent. And as a reminder of the three trains an hour between Houston and |
| 1:08.9 | Manchester Piccadilly, two of them are routed through Stoke-on-Trent. |
| 1:13.9 | The other one goes through crew. Anyway, the Manchester to London service is going to be cut from |
| 1:20.6 | three trains an hour to just two, both rooted via crew and journeys extended by at least 10 minutes. |
| 1:29.9 | Avanti West Coast says there will be a reduced timetable on some of our routes throughout |
| 1:34.3 | the whole bank holiday weekend. This combined with many great events happening across the network |
| 1:40.8 | and here it's me again such as the Notting Hill Carnival in London. |
| 1:45.0 | Manchester Pride back to Avanti may mean our trains are busier than usual this bank holiday weekend. |
| 1:54.0 | So you might be thinking well I'll head across to Kings Cross instead that's a good way of reaching Scotland and certainly destinations in the Pennines, for example. |
| 2:06.6 | There's very often a choice of which way you can travel to get to those destinations. |
| 2:12.6 | But let me head down the Euston Road to Kings Cross and I'll pick up from there. |
| 2:19.6 | Kings Cross, the impressive hub for the East Coast Mainline, Britain's flagship railway |
| 2:25.2 | from the capital to Yorkshire, North East England and Scotland. |
| 2:29.5 | Except over the bank holiday weekend from Saturday evening the 24th of August to Monday morning the 26th of August |
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