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    London Overground class 710s

    Fully agree, it gets very annoying after every station stop. Especially as only 5% to 10% of people are still wearing face masks on trains in London in my personal experience.
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    London Overground class 710s

    Anyone have any idea why the London Overground Class 710's still have audio and visual annual which make reference to some people may have an excemption for not wearing a face mask? The legal requirement to wear a face mask on public transport ended over six months ago. Only the London...
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    Weather disruption Sunday 17th July and following few days

    No trains between York / Leeds and London King's Cross on Tuesday
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    Closure of East Coast Mainline on Tuesday

    LNER have today advised the East Coast Mainline will be completly closed between London and Leeds / York. Thameslink and Great Northern have advised no trains will operate on the East Coast Mainline on Tuesday.
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    Grand Central declining service quality

    Why are they still blocking off rows of seats?
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    ASLEF Ballot Results

    If most train drivers of ASLEF, I can't see many trains if any operating on strike days for these TOCs. You can't use agency staff for train drivers!
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    Can the ECML cope with warm weather

    I've noticed that there seems to be a number of infrastructure issues with the ECML as soon as there is some warm weather. Large number of cancellations and delays on LNER, Great Northern and Thameslink on the ECML today.
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    Amazon Hub Lockers installed at West Midlands Trains railway stations

    A large number of GTR stations have had 'In Post' lockers for a while now. Used one last week to return some online shopping I did.
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    Poor condition of Northern line fleet

    The Northern Line fleet is in such poor condition and is need of a deep clean and seat repairs
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    SouthEastern announce planned strike (21, 23 and 25 June) day service

    That is one heavy reduced service which leaves most of Kent without a rail service. I think many commuters will be in for a shock when they see this.
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    "Abolish the railways!" (The Spectator)

    What a complete load of rubbish - lets see all the traffic jams in London & Major cities on train and tube strike days! In France, the number of domestic flights have been reduced as people prefer to use the TGV. The same happened between London and Manchester when the WCML was upgraded in the...
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    GTR passengers numbers

    On Monday evening at around 18:00 (tube strike day) I saw an Moorgate to Welwyn Garden City train between New Barnet (Zone 5) and Hadley Wood (zone 6) and the train was next to empty. Only 3 or 4 people in each carriage. It felt like we were back in Lockdown again! I appreciate it was on a tube...
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    GTR passengers numbers

    The email included an email directly from GTR.
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    GTR passengers numbers

    Just received an email from my MP regarding GTR: "Passenger numbers are still at only 74% of pre-covid levels" No where near this 90% figure that I've seen quoted in the media over the past few days.
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    RMT announce strike dates across range of TOCs and Network Rail

    This is going to have one huge impact on passenger numbers, especially with a tube strike in London as well on the Tuesday. I can many TOCs advising people to work from home if they can on strike days.
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    RMT announce strike dates across range of TOCs and Network Rail

    Most office workers in Central London will just work form home for the strike week. Going to be loads of empty desks in civil service offices during this week!
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    TfL telling people not to travel on Monday

    Just received this email from TfL: We are advising customers to avoid travelling on Monday 6 June. Severe disruption across the network is expected from start of service on Monday until 08:00 on Tuesday morning, with many stations closed, especially in Zone 1. This is due to RMT strike action...
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    Avanti's serial cancellations of last trains

    AWC are cancelling more services than even British Airways on the London to Glasgow route today!
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    Comment piece in Passenger Transport - "The railway risks becoming irrelevant"

    SWR stated in an Guardian article today that "rush hour arrivals have only recovered to 50% of pre-pandemic. The tube was only 65% on Monday, while it was 95% last Saturday according to DfT stats. While Northern is reporting passenger numbers at 125% at weekends.
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    Greater Anglia vote for strike action (ASLEF)

    First thing many office commuters do now when they hear there is a train strike, is to arrange their working from home days to be on strike days. While many office employers now instruct their employees to work from home on train strike days. I cant see many civil servants returning to the...

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