On Mar 2, 9:32*pm, EE507 wrote:

On Mar 2, 10:04*pm, cj wrote:
[snip]
The services that will put the 'ghost bus' to rest have appeared in
the timetables from 24th May as follows:

10:48 Wandsworth Road
11:11 Kensington Olympia
11:13 Shepherd's Bush
11:30 Ealing Broadway

12:07 Ealing Broadway
12:29 Shepherd's Bush
12:32 Kensington Olympia
12:50 Wandsworth Road

I'm just curious as to what stock Southern will use for this service -
seems a bit of a waste to have one of their DMUs so far off normal
territory for a good few hours. Unless dual-voltage stock is possible
for the whole route - how would it get from Ealing to Shepherd's Bush?
~cj

Ta for the gen - what a delightfully insane service. All thanks to The
Times and belatedly Passenger Focus kicking up a stink last year. They
won and this is the, er, result.

See my other post - all very stupid. A "ghost train" will replace the
"ghost bus". LO station staff at Shepherd's Bush should expect a
spattering of bemused Paddington-bound pax turning up at half-noon
every now and then.

Passenger Focus took this on, whilst London TravelWatch notably didn't
- I suppose PF possible justification for encroaching on LTW's
territory is that the 'parly' service is a 'replacement' for the XC
service which mostly operated outside of LTW's patch. If someone can
find a normal passenger making part of their overall Brighton to
Manchester or Reading to Gatwick journey on any one one of these
services then I will eat all the words that have been written anywhere
about this whole affair.

If I've got this all wrong, and this deserves to be a cause célèbre, I
wonder if someone would kindly tell me why?!