Mondays-Fridays
- 0703 Maidenhead — Paddington non-stop service (0620 from Didcot Parkway) to be formed as a 5-car instead of 4-car. This provides an additional 100
Standard Class seats in a key morning peak service
- 0602 Reading — Slough — Paddington service to call additionally at Maidenhead, providing a new fast service into London
- 1736 Paddington — Oxford service (fast to Maidenhead) will be formed as a HST instead of a 4-car Turbo
- 1742 Paddington — Bourne End to be accelerated, running 5 minutes faster to Maidenhead and 4 minutes faster to Bourne End
- 1750 Paddington — Oxford HST - continuation of recent introduction of Maidenhead call
- 1818 Paddington — Oxford service (fast to Maidenhead) to run as currently; with a better connection to Bourne End, arrival time there will be
accelerated by 4 minutes
- 1833 Paddington — Oxford deleted. For Maidenhead, the 1833 will be effectively replaced by an accelerated and retimed 1842 Paddington — Bourne End
service. Instead of taking 36 minutes to get to Maidenhead (which makes it a relatively unattractive service), it will depart at 1836 and get to
Maidenhead in 27 minutes. As far as Maidenhead it will be formed as a 5-car service instead of a 3-car, providing an additional 186 seats on this train.
(NB the 1842 presently has an average load factor of c.72% so there should, on average, also be a further 75 standard seats available for use from
Paddington)
- 1918 Paddington — Oxford - the Bourne End connection will be retimed, accelerating the journey time from Paddington to Bourne End by 4 minutes
- 1947 Paddington — Cheltenham HST - an additional Maidenhead call will also be inserted, taking the pattern of fast services to Maidenhead up to
2000
- 1519 Taunton — Paddington HST - service will call additionally at Maidenhead (1730)
- 1848 Paddington — Cheltenham HST - an additional call at Twyford will be inserted
- 1812 Paddington-Henley becomes a 3-car v 4-car service
Saturdays:
- 2245 Paddington — Didcot runs 2 minutes later from Maidenhead to Reading to provide a better connection off the branch
- 0650 Twyford — Henley runs 7 min later to improve connections onto the branch
Sundays:
- An additional 0835 Maidenhead — Marlow and 0901 return trip will run, giving the branch a one hour earlier start on a Sunday compared to the
usual service. Long term operation will depend on sufficient traffic being generated.
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