Cross Country alterations New Years Day 2017

[voyagerdude220]

Hi all,

It appears that Cross Country have recently published an amended timetable for this Sunday, 01/01/17, due to a shortage of Train Managers.

The website link is supposed to be showing as:

tiny url .com/ XCNewYearsDay (without the spaces)


The link has details of amendments and states that XC won't be offering seat reservations on Sunday.

Edit: For some reason, my original post kept changing the website link to asterisks.

 

[221129]

A link to the Amended Time table on NRE.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/static/documents/timetables/01JNR17 TRAIN PLAN.pdf

 

[voyagerdude220]

A link to the Amended Time table on NRE.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/static/documents/timetables/01JNR17 TRAIN PLAN.pdf

Thanks Ollieb.

 

[plymothian]

Not the only TOC who will have a shortage of staff.
New Years Day is a Sunday, which many are under no obligation to work, and the lack of enhanced incentive to frontline staff to do so.

 

[father_jack]

Hi all,

It appears that Cross Country have recently published an amended timetable for this Sunday, 01/01/17, due to a shortage of Train Managers.

The website link is supposed to be showing as:

tiny url .com/ XCNewYearsDay (without the spaces)


The link has details of amendments and states that XC won't be offering seat reservations on Sunday.

Edit: For some reason, my original post kept changing the website link to asterisks.

All the XC trains were put into "restricted" for reservations on Tuesday.

 

[father_jack]

Not the only TOC who will have a shortage of staff.
New Years Day is a Sunday, which many are under no obligation to work, and the lack of enhanced incentive to frontline staff to do so.

GWR getting Sunday rate plus 50%.

Nobody is willing to grasp the nettle on Sunday work going into the working week, it would cost the TOCs too much and the pay rate is good enough without Sundays for a lot of people on the staff side.

Pity about the punters.

 

[yorkie]

I've deleted the last 3 posts. Let's not have a repeat of The annual "Boxing Day Trains" row. (there's no point having two threads arguing the same points) and keep this thread to discuss the actual disruption please.