Birmingham to cambridge by train leaving 9amish return 8pm sunday quickest journey possible any ideas? thank y

Question

Birmingham to cambridge by train leaving 9amish return 8pm sunday quickest journey possible any ideas? thank y

Answer 1

Going, you have services leaving at 9.10 and 9.40, arr 13.02 and 13.54 respectively. Returning only one train - not until 22.41, not back in Birmingham until 6.22am Monday! The outward trains are via Snow Hill, Marylebone and Kings Cross, the return Kings Cross, Euston, change Bletchley and change  Northampton. There is engineering work on the direct Birmingham-Euston line and all trains appear to be going to Marylebone. That presumably is the reason for the long journey home. There are NO Cross Country Direct services on the 17 August

Barbaros is INCORRECT He/she has not checked the facts. There are NO Birmingham-Euston trains on Sunday 17th August, because of engineering work they ALL go to Marylebone.

Answer 2

I read rdenig's post before posting this, and agree with everything he said.

It is an absolute b-tch of a journey by train any day of the week. Sunday is just the icing on the cake.

I'm not sure if you mean leaving Cambridge at 8pm, or arriving back in Brum by 8pm.

I'd go Birmingham - Euston,  King's Cross - Cambridge and the reverse.

That way, as they are both mainline services, if there are the dreaded 'engineering works' there will at least be a half-decent replacement bus service. [I speak as someone who once set out to get from Barrow-in-Furness to Harrogate at 8am on a Sunday. The friends I was supposed to be visiting took pity on me and picked me up in Leeds at half past three on the Monday morning.]

The last sensible train leaves Euston for Birmingham at 9pm (21:00) although there is one at 21:40 from Marylebone (rushing to Marylebone from King's X or Liverpool Street is nobody's idea of fun after a long day).

Do look at:

http://www.thetrainline.com/

but that is one of those journeys that, although I prefer travelling by train, reminds me why I still have a car.