Chilternrailways Anmeldelser 

I am a regular commuter and within the last 2 months, there have been 4/5 occasions where there is major fault on trains..
Each time the carriages 100% filled up with grey smoke where, causing many people to suffocate, unable to breathe, coughing etc - each time it takes me hours after to recover from the exposure…
The burning smell/smoke is resulting from the brakes and no idea if this is harmful…

First time the staff were useless, pulled up to the station and didn’t open the door for 10 mins to allow people to breathe!!

It is outrageous how the train continues to be in service and has this repeated episodes of smoke filled carriages, the staff are either not reporting things properly or maintenance people are not doing their job….

I will be escalating this to the highest level and public for this gross negligence.

I chose the train so I could travel and work!! Two of the last three trips. Plug sockets not working! One of the trips had really old substandard rolling stock with no tables either
Come on Chiltern
I am not the only one here complaining about the plug sockets that do not work
Is this symptomatic of the overall maintenance on this service?

I travelled from London to Oxford yesterday. It was an awful trip — packed with people and the air conditioning was broken. The heat and lack of air was almost unbearable.

I complained to Trainline, asking for a refund of my ticket. They of course shirked responsibility and told me to contact Chiltern, which I did. Chiltern was even worse, telling me that everything is perfect and, if it wasn’t on this occasion, they’re sorry but there could be no refund. Basically, they couldn’t care less.

What a pathetic response - unable to hold themselves accountable and showing contempt for their customers. Instead of refunding £15, they alienate me and make me not want to travel with them ever again. I know it’s naive to think they would care since they know they have a captive audience and many people don’t have a choice…

I will ask to reverse the charge with my credit card company.

If you can, avoid! They don’t deserve anyone’s business.

Abin was really helpful and kind

Delayed trains. Engineering work or whatever excuse is used almost every single weekend. Train journeys taking extra 30-40min each way or bus replacement, but of course they won't reduce already extortionate ticket price. You want us to take trains more often, reduce price and improve service because this is appalling. I am actually considering moving to different area of country because how bad train service is here.

Train delayed 45 minutes. Only advice was to make own arrangements. Deflecting and trying to make you unboard the train so you are not their responsibility anymore. Disgusting.

Always delayed and poor service. Trains dirty and always failing.

Terrible service staff are extremely unaccommodating and go out of there way to make a trip unpleasant.

Number of queries answered immediately with above and beyond help from staff member Abin

No concern for my wellbeing from customer services after I suffered a horrible incident in a station while going about my morning commute. The (helpful) supervisor advised me to ask Chiltern for reimbursement as my clothes required dry cleaning. Despite this, Chiltern have refused to pay the £25 bill which is stingy at best and just insulting at worst. A clear case of profits over the care of their customers.

Chiltern railways never cease to amaze me of how terrible a service they are. Had not been on a train for a year (lucky me) and got a train today only to find out that the ticket fare is now 1.30 more expensive. Trains remain with only 3 carriages during rush hour, extraordinary dirty, without heating, and now you can’t even take a bike on half of the services! Awful.

Platform confirmation at Marylebone is laughably bad. Clapped out fleet with terrible reliability, woeful overcrowding and awful WiFi. Stations are poorly maintained and energy waste is everywhere to see. It's all down to poor management and Adrian Shooter CBE must be turning in his grave.

Chiltern railways are a total joke. I was prevented from getting the 23.11 train because I was booked on the 00:005 train. They told me that this was a next day ticket so could not be used even though it was a same day return. I was then told I had to buy a new ticket and claim back the original return leg. When I went to the website I couldn’t reclaim it because it was part of a same day return ticket. It’s like they have perfected incompetence as an art form, or they are just hoping people give up trying to navigate their labyrinth of stupidity. Sadly there is no other option for travelling this route and then, at £46 day return, the government wonder why there are so many cars on the roads.

The train times and services itself were fine. I just wanted to query about the plug sockets.
I travel into London regularly and every train that I have ever been on, the plug sockets don’t work. So if someone needs to charge there phone they are unable to do so. So I was wondering if Chiltern Railways could update that.

Really bad customer service at the ticket office at Marylebone train station and the complaints department can not seem to be bothered to reply to complaints.

Chiltern Railways is a somewhat reliable railway company. I'll be honest, they have a tendency to have a lot of delays but most of them never affect me too much. Most of their Class 168 trains are clean, but way to overcrowded on peak services. At peak times, like 8am, the train has three carriages and is rammed to the door with no seats, and very little standing capacity. I think there should be more coordination of bigger coached trains for their peak journeys as they can get really crowded, especially leaving Birmingham Moor Street at around 4pm.

If that was the only part, I would leave this review at 5 stars, as it really isn't that bad. Sadly, I have had encounters with station staff being rude, power-hungry resulting in me missing my train due to THEIR miscommunication, and arrogance. They way the staff handle the situation was not acceptable, and should have been reported to professional standards.

This situation is in the past now and I am sure that these situations happen everywhere, so I'm not going to bring down my rating too much.

On top of that, a rude ticket inspector looked into all my details on his device (rail card details), while grinning at me. I found him trying to be intimidating but I once again didn't think much of it.

I haven't really had many positive experiences with staff, but I've got to give credit where credit is due to some of the train managers for doing amazing communications to the customers to keep them up to date.

Overall, the service is meh, expensive, and is somewhat reliable. For that, I will give this review 4 stars, however really it should have been 1/2.

Dealing with lost property was not an easy experience, almost deliberately obtuse.

Item lost on Dec 18th, no response at all for over 6 weeks. It took a personal contact to get a notification that it was found. Without that, I feel I would never have got a notification and the property would have been destroyed.

However, Fahad at Marylebone station was fantastic. Give that man a raise/bonus!

£80 for a day return ticket from Oxford to London and have to stand all the way back on the return journey. If the government is looking at how to improve productivity then this would be a start. Over an hour and a half out my day with no opportunity to sit and do work. Chiltern either need to offer a poor service cheaply or premium service at a premium price. Currently the customer is getting shafted both ways which is never a comfortable experience.

I have traveled Bicester North to Marylebone 6 times this month. Everytime I have to stand. Trains too short.

I’ll go MK to Euston in future

Vile company, train inspectors along with the head of prosecution in Banbury unprofessional jobsworth who target youngsters. I have written to the transport secretary about the way they handled my case and the disgusting situation they put me through. That along with overcrowded, over priced filthy trains they really don’t have a great deal to offer, shame on them however they really do not care about customers in the slightest.