Scotrail88
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Given the current timetable ongoing - it seems strange to post this but does anyone have knowledge of what is confirmed for the next timetable change?
Thameslink are supposed to extend the Sevenoaks - Blackfriars through the core to Welwyn GC. Seriously!
How will GN/TL maintain the service on the Moorgate branch? Finsbury-Moorgate shuttles?
Peak hours and late night only. Remaining with Blackfriars bays off peak.
Will GN still maintain the 5 minutes Moorgate to Finsbury Park peak service?
The Moorgates won’t be affected - it’s the peak-only 2tph KX to Welwyn which are planned
to transfer to and from the core.
The change planned for December was the second Cambridge to Brighton. Looking less likely to happen how. It’s introduction appears to result in two other changes - the couple of peak Royston 365s will likely be cut back to Baldock, and the Moorgate to Stevenage service will be cut back to Watton-at-Stone.
The rail industry has reviewed its plans for the winter timetable following disruption in parts of the country after the May timetable change and will make fewer changes to ensure people get a more reliable service.
Every year, the national timetable is routinely changed twice – for the summer (in May) and for the winter (in December) to allow services to adapt for seasonal variations and to enable new services to be introduced as a result of investment in the infrastructure and in new trains.
The timetable change in May 2018 was the largest in recent railway history. As a result of today’s announcement, the December 2018 timetable change will be of a similar scale to the smaller changes of recent years....
Interesting find. With SWR not changing in December that presumably takes the pressure off a whole load of rolling stock issues as well...
Am I the only one who thinks what it says about Northern and TPE is unclear. Are they supposed to be implementing other changes which they were scheduled to make in May but didn't or postponing everything?
And I'll be cursing you for another six months while I wait in the peaks for a backlog of delayed trains with ridiculous dwell times while calling at Clapham Junction to clearSelfishly, myself and some others will be glad it has been delayed, so that the gap for services to and from Clapham Junction is not extended.
Am I the only one who thinks what it says about Northern and TPE is unclear. Are they supposed to be implementing other changes which they were scheduled to make in May but didn't or postponing everything?
Northern, which has achieved a more stable service after cutting 6% of its timetable, also expects to be running the May timetable in full later this year
Well I suspect backlog of trains will just start later so from around 19:26, when I believe the first fast train to stop at Clapham Junction was due to call in the new timetable.And I'll be cursing you for another six months while I wait in the peaks for a backlog of delayed trains with ridiculous dwell times while calling at Clapham Junction to clear
The Guardian article (https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ms-forced-to-abandon-winter-timetable-changes) states the following
(though I appreciate that this wasn't online when you raised the question)
A new hourly Liverpool-Runcorn-Chester service is supposed to start in December 2018 (operated by Wales & Borders).
I wouldn't have thought it would be the straw to break the camel's back (assuming the Lime St upgrade completes to plan).
Well I suspect backlog of trains will just start later so from around 19:26, when I believe the first fast train to stop at Clapham Junction was due to call in the new timetable.
The issue is caused by it being the first train to call and thus a greater number of passengers wishing to use it.
Personally I think that's a bit ambiguous. At the start of this year Northern submitted a track access application for their planned changes, some of those were dropped from the May timetable which went ahead. Then after the May timetable change some services were temporarily dropped and are being reinstated this month. So is the full May timetable the full printed timetable or the full timetable in the track access application (which most passengers won't have seen)?
W&B are to implement a new timetable. Interestingly WMT are not but LNWR are.
The link posted by 87015 only says West Midlands Trains are not which I take to include LNWR as they are not mentioned.
The link posted by 87015 only says West Midlands Trains are not which I take to include LNWR as they are not mentioned.