The introducton of the new timetable from Sunday 13 December 2015 was a good one for the Hounslow Loop. This doubled the service on the Hounslow Loop from 1tph (train per hour) to 2tph in the afternoon and evening on Sundays, introduced a Sunday service from that line to Whitton and Twickenham (which already existed on other days), as well as a completely new direct service to Kingston and intermediate stations. This was achieved by altering the existing services that terminated in the bay platform at Kingston to run via Hounslow (by reversing at Twickenham) instead of continuing via Richmond. These changes meant that Barnes Bridge, Chiswick and Kew Bridge were no longer the only London Zone 3 stations to have just one train per hour on Sundays.

However, due to engineering works the new services only ran once in the following 3 and a half months! It was the following week Sunday 20 December 2015 that they ran, and only because engineering work on the line was cancelled!

At Kingston the platform screens show both services that travel via Twickenham:
2R27 1235 Kingston to London Waterloo via Hounslow
2K29 1218 London Waterloo to London Waterloo (1249 from Kingston via Richmond)

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The introducton of the new timetable from Sunday 13 December 2015 was a good one for the Hounslow Loop. This doubled the service on the Hounslow Loop from 1tph (train per hour) to 2tph in the afternoon and evening on Sundays, introduced a Sunday service from that line to Whitton and Twickenham (which already existed on other days), as well as a completely new direct service to Kingston and intermediate stations. This was achieved by altering the existing services that terminated in the bay platform at Kingston to run via Hounslow (by reversing at Twickenham) instead of continuing via Richmond. These changes meant that Barnes Bridge, Chiswick and Kew Bridge were no longer the only London Zone 3 stations to have just one train per hour on Sundays.

However, due to engineering works the new services only ran once in the following 3 and a half months! It was the following week Sunday 20 December 2015 that they ran, and only because engineering work on the line was cancelled!

At Kingston the platform screens show both services that travel via Twickenham:
2R27 1235 Kingston to London Waterloo via Hounslow
2K29 1218 London Waterloo to London Waterloo (1249 from Kingston via Richmond)

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The same set does the first services from both ends:
2R27 1235 Kingston to London Waterloo
2V35 1420 London Waterloo to Kingston

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Before departing Kingston.

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Before departing Kingston.

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