It's not running due to engineering works and has been replaced by a bus which takes, get this, 1 hr 42 minutes

John said he'd have gone over and picked him up from the city centre but there're 9 of them and it's not fair to bring Tom +3 and leave the rest stuck on the bus

Twice over the Summer Tom and myself got the train into Birmingham on Sundays but could only get half way home due to these ongoing works and I looked into going the other Sunday to do some shopping but the trains weren't running then. Didn't think that they'd take the late train on a Saturday off though - it's always standing room only and so many people rely on it

Next Saturday night I'm taking Joe to see a band and although there's nothing on the planned engineering list at the moment, you can bet that something will be added during the week.