Well, FTS is an issue - at the end of the day when as an industry we publish our timetable that's our promise to our customers, so if we're regularly not stopping at places where really we should be then it isn't good customer service which we need to avoid especially as folk are returning to rail after the covid pandemic.
Hopefully never used on infrequent services ?
Has happened on some late running Crewe services where they have either run non stop Derby - Nottingham or Nottingham - Newark to make up time.
The timetable is way to tight so will never arrive at Crewe on time. It will depend on how late the service was as to if stops are pulled or even terminate short at Nottingham. Typically if it is up to around 20 late nothing will happen to the stops and will just run late for the rest of the day.
I doubt it. Perhaps a couple of VSTP crowd busters if that.
Think some of the ones when the Cambrian Coast Line closes must be up there, though that's perhaps a topic for another thread...
They are claiming it is too late to reinstate anything in their website. Hopefully the ones that are in the timetable will run. See what turns up unit wise on Nottingham - Grimsby (hopefully not 2 car units)
Once services have been removed there is a multitude of reasons why the normal timetable can't be reinstated. Drivers diagrams have been amended for a start, and potentially some STP diagrams could have been inserted which would conflict with the normal timetabled service. Another issue is that Senior Conductors are still working to the December 2019 roster and as such have to have work that fits within the original times of that roster.
It’s far too late. The daily lists for drivers/guards will have been posted according to all modified crew & unit diagrams. Trying to do much about it at such a late stage would be an operational nightmare. Odd alterations can be made but on the whole it’s beyond redemption.
It's fair to say I think that nobody is particularly impressed. Crap timing that doesn't help the staff or passengers.
It only helps detractors of all public transport, the rail industry in general but most particularly anything to do with EMR.
Because EMR can’t be bothered….
In other words, EMR would rather mess around and disrupt customers than train crew - it clearly and very sadly demonstrates where the priorities lie.
No, because the industry is too inflexible to allow such a substantial change at 2 days' notice.
The railways exist in a hyper-unionised environment, where conditions such as spare hours movement etc. severely restrict what can be done at short notice. In the context of a dispute you can hardly expect that staff will be willing to bend over backwards to help the company; they'll get paid one way or the other now that the strike is off.
In a truly private enterprise a dispute such as this would have been 'resolved' long ago. In a manner far less favourable to the employees, of course.
Not at all. In your own words, please don’t preach to me. It’s not a perfect world.
Hilarious.
If it were that simple it would be done. Unpicking unit diagrams, servicing, station setups and working etc with less than 12 hours to the first departures is bordering on the impossible even if Network Rail say yes, which they wouldn't.
Nothing EMR wise at the Norwich end from what I can see. Just use GA/XC/LNER etc via Ely/Peterborough/Doncaster.
There are a few single sets on Sundays as well but the migoraty are 7, 9 and 10 cars.
