Sir – If you had a bus timetable dated May 7, 2015, would it not be reasonable to expect that it would still be valid on July 6, 2015?

Apparently not if the service is the X1/X2 and the operator is Thames Travel.

I have just discovered that, after producing a new timetable booklet in May, they have now axed all evening and Sunday services on the X1 route (Oxford-Abingdon-Sutton Courtenay-Didcot-Wantage) from this week.

I use this bus frequently between Abingdon and Sutton Courtenay, and there must be many more who use it from Didcot Parkway station in both directions to get home from work in the evenings.

I did not see any advance publicity for these changes – how many of your readers have already waited for buses which never came?

They are still running the X2 (via Steventon to Didcot and then on to Wallingford) at these times – it would not cost them any more to run a few of these as X1s instead in the evenings and on Sundays.

I hope pressure can be put on Thames Travel to reverse this decision and reinstate at least some of these X1 services.

Michael Bloom
Withington Court
Abingdon