Thanks to all for the informative posts on Diagramming. Whilst the Sunday services dont personally affect me too much as I am generally a creature of habbit, those friends and coleegs who do make Sunday journeys and are by and large full of praise for the service the rest of the week regularly report that it all goes to pot on Sundays with a lot of short forming, overcrouding and admittedly a few cansilations, but again this has all been explained very well upthread.
Based on this and my own limmited experience of Sunday trains in Scotland I have to agree with whoever said that Sturgen and Co should think local and not national and at least make some effort to sort this mess out, particularly as a huge sum of money each year is spent cramming as many tourists into 1 country as possible. They arnt likely to come back if on the 3rd day of there holiday they have to stand beside the bog on a wedged 170 for nearly 4hrs to reach Inverness, and thats after they got up early to catch the morning train which was canseled at Perth as the driver booked to work it had quite rightly exercised his entitlement to a day off!
I'm not taking it out on rail staff here, they are fully entitled to both rest days and a propperly paid and rostered working week, regardless of wheather it includes Sundays. There is however a demand from workers, leisure travelers and holidaymakers for services 24/7 so the railway and in this case Transport Scotland had better start adapting so that staff who are relied upon to run these services get a good deal out of it. The longer this goes on the more problems we'll have and I am sure that, like in many other industries that if you dont want to work a Sunday on your roster it can be arranged as there clearly are many who are quite happy to take your place, a fact demonstrated by how many Sunday services do actually run.