spark001uk
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Looking for a bit of "educated guess" knowledge for this upcoming week of strikes if I may?
Basically I've got the big FOSW (Freedom of South West) 8 day rover / holiday all bought and booked up for the first week of Dec, only to hear soon after doing so that ASLEF plan to walk out from various TOCs (in a staggered pattern across the week).
So what I'm trying to get an Idea of is, how restricted might I expect to find services? Although the FOSW covers right across to SWR metals on the pompey etc, I doubt I'll be doing much of that TOC, if any.
My main areas of travel will likely be Penzance - Exeter - Bristol - Cardiff (a good portion of which I hope to be doing on Castles, as their last week on the full route), and a bit of branch stuff too probably, mainly in Devon/Cornwall.
As far as I'm aware, both GWR and XC are to walk out on the Thursday, so I guess we can safely say I won't be doing too much that day?
Assuming it'll be a bare-bones service on main routes, and only 7am - 7pm or something like that?
Also, for the remainder of the week I hear there's rest-day and overtime bans, what sort of impact might I expect from that?
As I say not asking for anything concrete, just a rough guess based on the impact of previous strikes perhaps?
Many thanks.
Basically I've got the big FOSW (Freedom of South West) 8 day rover / holiday all bought and booked up for the first week of Dec, only to hear soon after doing so that ASLEF plan to walk out from various TOCs (in a staggered pattern across the week).
So what I'm trying to get an Idea of is, how restricted might I expect to find services? Although the FOSW covers right across to SWR metals on the pompey etc, I doubt I'll be doing much of that TOC, if any.
My main areas of travel will likely be Penzance - Exeter - Bristol - Cardiff (a good portion of which I hope to be doing on Castles, as their last week on the full route), and a bit of branch stuff too probably, mainly in Devon/Cornwall.
As far as I'm aware, both GWR and XC are to walk out on the Thursday, so I guess we can safely say I won't be doing too much that day?
Assuming it'll be a bare-bones service on main routes, and only 7am - 7pm or something like that?
Also, for the remainder of the week I hear there's rest-day and overtime bans, what sort of impact might I expect from that?
As I say not asking for anything concrete, just a rough guess based on the impact of previous strikes perhaps?
Many thanks.