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Summary of Boxing Day Services 2018

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Starmill

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National Rail Enquiries have not yet published their service updates for the end of this month, but a number of services are now shown in the timetable data. A summary follows - any additons or corrections are welcome.

National Rail:

Merseyrail has no service this year. I do not know why. Confirmed here.
Southeastern will return to running a half-hourly shuttle service between Ashford International and London St Pancras.
Southern will run special services from London Bridge (not London Victoria this year) to Brighton, to Sutton (via Selhurst & West Croydon), and East Croydon (via Norwood Junction).
Chiltern once again run half-hourly services between London Marylebone and Oxford Parkway.
ScotRail are running a special service from Glasgow Central, with trains to Ayr, Ardrossan Harbour, Largs, Gourock, Wemyss Bay, Paisley Canal, Newton, Neilston, East Kilbride, Shotts, Lanark and Kilmarnock. Services will run from Glasgow Queen Street to Croy, Anniesland and Cumbernauld. A range of suburban services to Helensburgh Central, Dumbarton Central, Dalmuir, Milngavie, Whifflet, Larkhall, Motherwell, Airdrie and Bathgate will also run.
Greater Anglia has a half-hourly service running between Tottenham Hale and Stansted Airport.
Despite much talk, there is no service on London Overground or TfL Rail.

Other rail services:

Heathrow Express are also running a free inter-terminal service at Heathrow Airport.
Eurostar are running a Sunday service.
Metrolink will run a Saturday service.
The DLR and London Underground are running a reduced service, and London Tramlink a Sunday service.
Tyne & Wear Metro run a Saturday service, although Sunderland station continues to be closed.
Edinburgh Trams are running a Saturday service.

I could not determine if West Midlands Metro, Nottingham Express Transit or the Blackpool Tramway are running.
 
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The West Midlands Metro is running on Boxing Day.

There is a Sunday service until 08:00, then trams every 10 minutes until 18:00, then every 15 minutes until 23:00
 

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Merseyrail has no service this year. I do not know why.

The Wirral Line loop in Liverpool city centre is closed for platform upgrade works from 27th December (which may mean that they actually start working after the last train on Christmas Eve) - without the Wirral-Liverpool demand there may not be a financial case for underwriting the service.
 

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The Wirral Line loop in Liverpool city centre is closed for platform upgrade works from 27th December (which may mean that they actually start working after the last train on Christmas Eve) - without the Wirral-Liverpool demand there may not be a financial case for underwriting the service.

Spot on, the underground possession actually starts at 2200 on Christmas Eve.
 

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A Sunday service will run on Nottingham Express Tram on Boxing Day.
 

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Is London Overground due to a particular possession? Pretty feeble if not.

Glasgow and Manchester (Met) putting London to shame.
 

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TfL Rail is not running between Paddington and Heathrow Airport due to possession of the line for the GWML blockade. However Heathrow Express is running the ITT instead of MTR Crossrail to T4 on the 24th, 25th and 26th December.

TfL Rail is also not running for a number of days either side of Christmas Day out of London Liverpool Street towards Shenfield due to a separate possession in regards to overhead renewal work and Crossrail construction work on the GEML. A few refurbished buildings and station entrances *should* be open come January 2nd so I am told.
 

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The return of the Boxing Day service this year on HS1 / Southeastern Highspeed - between Ashford Int'l and St Pancras - was welcome (nothing ran last year).

Shame there was no return of the limited suburban service that Southeastern ran on a few Boxing Days past a few years back... maybe one day.
 
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