South Western Railway has confirmed there will be new timetable changes affecting services from Southampton Central to Portsmouth and Southsea.

Coming into effect on Sunday, June 2, services between Southampton Central and Portsmouth and Southsea via Netley will be significantly retimed.

Services from Southampton Central will depart 16 minutes earlier than the current timetable, at 28 minutes past the hour.

Services from Portsmouth and Southsea will depart eight minutes later, at 46 minutes past the hour.

Following these changes between Southampton and Portsmouth, an additional service has been created to run from Fareham to London Waterloo, departing at 7.49am.

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In a statement, Steve Tyler, South Western Railway’s Performance and Planning Director, said: “Our June 2024 timetable is the result of careful planning, taking into account our customers’ travel patterns and changes by other train operators on our network.

“To provide customers with a more reliable timetable, and in response to Southern’s West Coastway timetable changes, we’re making significant changes between Portsmouth and London Waterloo, and between Southampton Central and Portsmouth.”

He added: “We have also made a small number of changes to other services on our network, so it’s really important that customers check to see if their journeys have been retimed.

“Journey planners for services from Sunday 2 June are now showing the retimed services, so we advise customers to check now.”