Trains at Oxford

[@William-ty2lt]

I agree with you in this video that cross country is awful. Pre covid XC used to run two trains an hour from Oxford up to Manchester and Newcastle. Unfortunately not all of the Newcastle services have returned meaning that all XC services are all packed. XC should not have got rid of those HST'S. And there is no talks of the Southampton extensions to and from Newcastle. Just marvellous. I use xc a lot from Banbury and I agree with you, they are awful

[@thetrainhornmaster9439]

@@William-ty2lt they use to be great until they Covid hit with the Edinburgh to Southampton route being withdrawn and the HSTs withdrawal only made things worse because now they have pressured the voyagers for other routes it’s so bad they want the rest of avantis 221s in my opinion what they should of done is get all the 221s in service first then withdraw the HSTs not the other way round now don’t get me wrong they do have a nice fleet when you can actually use them but Arriva CrossCountry have basically been the downfall of Virgin CrossCountry with the Brighton to Manchester via Gatwick Airport and Kensington Olympia route being withdrawn and services to Portsmouth Weymouth and London Paddington also being withdrawn but then the saying is It’s always Arriva because it is always Arriva as Arriva has messed up Northern rail not once but twice as they ran the northern network back in 2004 Arriva won it back in 2016 but the tables turned on them when they messed up with the May 2018 timetable change but the big issue with XC is they also don’t have enough trains in the fleet the sooner they grab some HSTs from Storage the better another thing to say here is they call themselves CrossCountry but they withdrew all the services via London