1997 - 1998

Goodbye Eastbourne.

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INTRODUCTION:

No major change to any timings apart from the Sunday departure from Brighton which left 2 hours earlier and now ran to Edinburgh rather than Glasgow and arrived nearly 3 hours earlier.

The summer Saturday diversion to and from Eastbourne didn't run from 1997 with both trains running to and from Brighton.

The summer Saturday Birmingham to Ramsgate service ran again for a four week season.

 

The Summer 1997 timetable also saw Connex Southcentral start a hourly service between Gatwick and Rugby via Kensington Olympia. These used the 319/0 units transfered to them on Privitisation.  Combined with the Silverlink Clapham Jct to Willesden Jct service this gave Olympia three trains an hour in each direction, unheard of just a few years earlier. There was a regular Sunday service to Olympia for the first time in many years.


TIMETABLE and ROUTE:

1st June 1997 to 23rd May 1998

M-S

M-S

SO

SUN

Headcode

1S76

1M50

1M??

1S??

Notes

BS

B

BD

B

Ramsgate

 

 

1348

 

Margate

 

 

1357

 

Faversham

 

 

1420

 

Chatham

 

 

1441

 

Bromley South

 

 

1507

 

Brighton

0920

1420

 

1220

Haywards Heath

0933

1433

 

12u35

Gatwick Airport

0945

1445

 

12u48

Redhill

1004X

1504Y

 

13u05

Guildford

1033X

1533X

 

1329

East Croydon

1002X

1502X

 

 

Kensington Olympia

1021X

1530X

1538

 

Reading

1128

1626

 

1401

Didcot Parkway

 

1643

 

 

Oxford

1202

1658

 

1428

Banbury

1224

1720

 

1451

Leamington Spa

1246

1744

 

1511

Coventry

1303

1802

1717

1526W

Birmingham International

1315

1814

1730

1538W

Birmingham New Street arr

1329

1827

1743

1550

Birmingham New Street dep

1334

1834

 

1605

Wolverhampton

1352

1854

 

1621

Stafford

1408

1909

 

 

Stoke on Trent

 

1930

 

 

Macclesfield

 

1949

 

 

Crewe

1436

 

 

1701

Wilmslow

1458

 

 

 

Stockport

1511

2004

 

 

Manchester Piccadilly

1523

2019

 

 

Bolton

1543

 

 

 

Warrington Bank Quay

 

 

 

1720

Wigan  Northwestern

 

 

 

1732

Preston

1610

 

 

1748Z

Lancaster

1636

 

 

1806Z

Oxenholme

1652

 

 

1822Z

Penrith

1718

 

 

1848Z

Carlisle

1737

 

 

1907Z

Haymarket

19s08

 

 

 

Edinburgh Waverley

1916

 

 

2038Z

B = Buffet

D  =  26th July 1997 to 1st August 1997

S = The Sussex Scot

W = Calls at Coventry and Birmingham International from 28th September 1997.

X = Saturdays only until 27th September 1997 runs via Guildford

 does not serve East Croydon or Kensington Olympia. From 4th October does

not advertised to call anywhere between Gatwick Airport and Reading.

Y = Saturdays only stop not advertised but must call as the loco has to run round

Z = runs approx 10 mins later from 28th September 1997.

 

 

1st June 1997 to 23rd May 1998

M-S

M-S

SO

SUN

Headcode

1O66

1O90

1O??

1O??

Notes

BC

BS

BD

B

Edinburgh Waverley

 

1040

 

 

Haymarket

 

1044

 

 

Glasgow Central

 

 

 

1240

Motherwell

 

 

 

1259

Carlisle

 

1204

 

1408

Penrith

 

1220

 

 

Oxenholme 

 

1245

 

1445

Lancaster

 

1300

 

1500

Preston

 

1329

 

1521

Wigan Northwestern

 

 

 

1535

Warrington Bank Quay

 

 

 

1554

Bolton

 

1354

 

 

Manchester Piccadilly

0717

1417

 

 

Stockport

0726

1426

 

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