Well, it's that time of year again, Central Trains timetable change time, when, once more, commuters to Birmingham from Worcester, Malvern and Hereford (and all points in between!) have the service further eroded.
Not content with discontinuing the stopping at Five Ways station this time last year (the reasoning for which still eludes myself and every other passenger), we now have the removal of the 16.30 from New Street to Worcester Foregate Street.
So what option do these passengers have? Catch the 17.00 (sorry 16.59 on the new timetable) Hereford train, of course. But with double the passengers for this train what do Central Trains do? They reduce the number of carriages from three to two - makes perfect sense doesn't it? It's a fact that if Central Trains transported livestock they'd be legally bound to give them more space!
It's obvious to me that Central Trains don't want to run trains between Birmingham and Malvern/Hereford. I'm convinced that their continual running down of the service is designed to force people off this line and back into cars. None of the changes they implement benefit the "customer", the service I receive now is poorer than that of five years ago.
The only answer I can see is to look for employment locally - anyone want a rather jaded, travel-worn computer programmer?
Haydn Edwards, Court Road,
Malvern.
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