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you do talk some rubbish sometimes.Southern have a message on their website showing they are only running very limited services on Tues 13th, Wed 14th, Fri 16th and Sat 17th Dec and that services will be starting "much later" than normal on Thu 15th and Sun 18th Dec yet if you go to a journey planner search either on their own website at southernrailway.com or via nationalrail.co.uk a regular normal timetable for each of these days is shown.
As they know the strike action is going ahead and from my local station at Ockley it will mean no trains on Tues 13th, Wed 14th, Fri 16th and Sat 17th Dec and only a shuttle service from Dorking to Horsham on Thurs 17th Dec if we are lucky (and only because I previously complained high up about Sunday service following a rail strike day meaning no service at all again from Dorking to Horsham) why exactly is it that GTR and/or Rail Delivery Group still appear unable to show the actual timetable that will be applicable on each strike day and on the day after the strike day at this very late stage in proceedings?
Southern's website also states that "there will also be an overtime ban across the railway network from Sunday 18 December until Monday 2 January. Services may be extremely limited throughout this period" but again have in no way adjusted their online journey planners for the period in question to reflect this.
Can anyone explain to me exactly why it is that at this very late stage with only four and a half days to go before apparently three and a half weeks with either no train services or very limited services neither GTR or Rail Delivery Group have managed to get their act together to show us precisely what train services will be available to those members of the British Public still rash enough to entrust their travel arrangements to an industry that thinks people should spend weeks at home not travelling anywhere whenever their employees feel like holding the country to ransom for pay rises no one working in other jobs can possibly hope to get without any fear of either being sacked or made redundant as a result of their actions.
my understanding is that journey planners should start to be updated from tonight onwards. that’s for next week’s strikes. for 18 to 2nd i am not too sure what the latest is, but at one point last week the plan NR we’re communicating to operators was changing every few hours so the lack of information on that seems justified and understandable. to suggest gtr or rdg haven’t got there act together woefully underestimates the level of activity going in behind the scenes to plan for all the strike dates.