Southeastern has announced major improvements to Metro, Mainline and High-Speed services from Monday with 100 additional services throughout the week.
The new timetable will be introduced on Monday morning and passengers are asked to check their timetables over the weekend to ensure that they are aware of any changes being made at the beginning of the week. The changes reflect an analysis of journeys taken as well as customer and stakeholder feedback. Further improvements to the timetable will also be made in June next year.
In the Metro area, more City Beam trains will be in operation, providing passengers with a more modern, air-conditioned travelling environment. These have been specifically targeted at the busiest services, therefore providing additional space when it is most needed. By the end of the year 28 out of 30 Class 707 City Beam trains will be introduced, entering service with Southeastern by June 2024.
Additional morning peak trains will run and there will be a better spread of departure times for Hayes to London Charing Cross services. There will also be four extra morning peak trains from Albany Park at 05:26, 05:55, 06:25 and 06:55. A new morning peak service will run at 06:31 from Crayford to London Charing Cross.
An additional ‘rounder' service will run at 08:04 from London Cannon Street via Greenwich and Sidcup, calling at all stations except Lewisham.
The 07:26 New Cross-Cannon Street service via Sidcup and Greenwich will now start at London Cannon Street at 07:15, calling at London Bridge, therefore creating a full ‘rounder' service.
Mainline services will be improved through the provision of an additional fast service from Maidstone East to London Charing Cross, departing at 07:43. There will also be an extra service from Ashford International to London Charing Cross, leaving at 06:44.
The high-speed train fleet is undergoing refurbishment and additional services will reinstate the half-hourly service on weekdays between London St Pancras and Faversham. The half-hourly service will run between London St Pancras and Faversham between 07:20 and 20:20, and will depart Faversham in the opposite direction between 05:00 and 18:02.
Steve White, Southeastern's Managing Director, said: “We're absolutely committed to providing a better, more reliable and sustainable railway across south east London, Kent and East Sussex. Our new timetable will be introduced this Monday and is the result of analysis of customer journeys as well as detailed feedback from customers and stakeholders across our Metro, Mainline and High Speed services.
“As a result we'll be providing more trains and more seats in London, the Medway Towns and North and East Kent. Customers can check their timetable now on the Southeastern website or by using our online journey planner.”
Still a dreadful service in East Kent, with awful connections at Faversham. Average speeds, despite tens of millions spent on trains and track over the last 20 years, are barely as good as the 1937 steam timetable. And not as comfortable.
This is wonderful. But will any of them actually be on time? I’m sick to death of my morning commute always being late or cancelled. It’s no good to just add more ‘cancelled’ trains to the schedule.
Not good enough. Service on North Kent Line will still be rubbish. No wonder Elizabeth Line is always busy.
SouthEastern can’t even run the “service” it pretends to provide now
It is the worst line on the circuit. If the trains aren’t,t cancelled or on an overtime ban, or a level crossing failure or a foreign body on the line, (which isn’t,t their fault admittedly, but their total disinterest to help their passengers cope IS” ALL we ask is just run on time.Get your act together.We Don,t need extra services which you will be totally unable to supply anyway , just a reliable journey to our destination.
What about offpeaktravellers especially the services you cut to
The bone on the Bexleyheath line to Charing Cross why are you not increasing those do we not matter in Bexleyheath we are the forgotten route plus Ticket office is closed on.a regular basis as Your train comany jumped the gun thinking closures were a done deal and let loads of staff leave a d not replacing them stupid decision Bexleyheath always been a well used and busy Station.in.or out of thepeak times and loads of tbe older generation, visibly impaired and disabled travellersstill.need the use of the Tickst Office services and a person behind the desk to help a machine or online is not right for everyone as the consultation proved without doubt but South Eastern bosses are still.in.denial and not listening to.the overwhelming results of the consultation. Sort it out !
Ramsgate Kent to London any xtra services from Monday
Christmas service ok?
Possibly the worst train operating company in western Europe.
I think Southern run them close
Perhaps South Western Railway should give up with using 2 Class 707s and to cascade them to Southeastern along with the 28 Class 707s that have already been transferred to Southeastern and increase more extra capacity on Southeastern’s metro services in Southeast London. And South Western Railway to introduce the new Class 701 trains at the end of this year.