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Greater Anglia June 2022 strike timetable

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Services between 07:30 and 18:30 only.

Liverpool Street - Norwich, Colchester (stopping), Southend Victoria, Stansted and Cambridge will be running. There won't be any (Greater Anglia) services from Ely to Cambridge, Peterborough, Ipswich or Norwich, from Norwich to Great Yarmouth, Sheringham or Lowestoft, from Ipswich to Felixstowe, Lowestoft or Cambridge, or to Harwich, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton, Sudbury, Braintree, Southminster or Hertford East. Although it isn't explicitly mentioned, the Stratford - Meridian Water / Bishops Stortford services probably won't be running either.

They also recommend changing to the Underground at Liverpool Street, not Stratford, on the 21st if possible due to the tube strike (not sure why they'd advise against changing at Stratford but not Tottenham Hale as well).
 
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They have provided some further details this morning via the link in the above post. Nothing out of Liverpool Street after 17:40 on the strike days.

A very limited and much reduced service - with fewer trains running and so fewer seats available - will run starting at 7.30am and finishing at 6.30pm on the following routes:

  • Norwich to London Liverpool Street intercity service – one train an hour, with first and last trains from Norwich to Liverpool Street at 08.00 and 16.00, and first and last trains from Liverpool Street to Norwich at 08.30 and 16.30.
  • Colchester to London Liverpool Street stopping service – one stopping train an hour plus one intercity service an hour, with the first and last stopping services from Colchester to London Liverpool Street at 07.30 and 16.25 and from London Liverpool Street to Colchester at 08.00 and 17.00.
  • Southend Victoria to London Liverpool Street – two trains an hour with first and last trains from Southend Victoria to London Liverpool Street at 07.30 and 17.13, and from London Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria at 07.47 and 17.30.
  • Stansted Express Stansted Airport to London Liverpool Street – two trains an hour (reducing to one train an hour on Thursday 23 June, when train drivers are also on strike), with first and last trains from Stansted Airport to London Liverpool Street at 07.42 and 17.12 and from London Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport at 08.10 and 17.40
  • Cambridge to London Liverpool Street – one train an hour with some possible further alterations on Thursday 23 June, when train drivers are also on strike, with the first trains from Cambridge to London Liverpool Street at 08.20 and 16.20 and from Cambridge North to London Liverpool Street at 09.13 and 16.13. First and last trains from Liverpool Street to Cambridge/Cambridge North at 08.25 and 16.25/15.25.
 

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Brutal timetable for my commuting friends, not all of whom can work from home and some are facing overnight stays in hotels. But that's not to belittle the RMT's actions, it's a necessary evil in my humble opinion.

I assume Colchester to Liv St will be 12 car 321s and the Southend Vic 2 x 720s.
 

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On the Mainline they seemed be either 10 car 720’s or 12 car 745’s, a strange incident according to GA Twitter two freight trains took around 40 minutes to go through the Shenfield area around 4pm, the Up ones seems oddly have been routed through platform 4 blocking path of the down one which looks to eventually gone gone on the Up toward Chelmsford’ usual Twitter ranting…. https://twitter.com/greateranglia/status/1539263759092523010?s=21&t=d43AmUaXQA33EQCr7_8m1g
 

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Is the 3 July strike expected to be same timetable as 23rd was, or same service level for full operating hours at least?
 

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With the strength of the ballot I'm surprised they even have strike breakers to drive the trains they've planned
 

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Most, if not all trains on that day will be driven by driver managers.
Are they not also members of ASLEF or is it just that they aren't in the collective bargaining arrangements and not eligible to strike?
 

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Are they not also members of ASLEF or is it just that they aren't in the collective bargaining arrangements and not eligible to strike?
Most of the driver managers would likely of been ASLEF members when drivers but when making the move to the managerial grade they leave ASLEF.
 
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There's a discrepancy between the PDF timetable on the GA website for Saturday and what's showing in the journey planners.

The PDF shows an hourly service London to Chelmsford but the journey planner has some two-hour gaps.
 

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There's a discrepancy between the PDF timetable on the GA website for Saturday and what's showing in the journey planners.

The PDF shows an hourly service London to Chelmsford but the journey planner has some two-hour gaps.

The only difference I could see is that the 13:30 to Norwich is currently not in the journey planner. Its previous journey, 11:00 to London, is in the planner.

Without that 13:30 there its suggesting that if you miss the 11:30 the next quickest journey to Ipswich is via Seven Sisters, Stansted, Ely and Norwich !
 
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Without that 13:30 there its suggesting that if you miss the 11:30 the next quickest journey to Ipswich is via Seven Sisters, Stansted, Ely and Norwich !
Yes that would probably be the case. But I think the 13:30 is planned to operate. It has to be remembered that only the Stansted Express is operating on the west with no Cambridge to Liverpool Street trains. It would have to be XC there to Ely where only EMR services operate to Norwich.

There is no 15:30 Liverpool St-Norwich on the strike day which leaves a 4 hour gap between the 13:30 & 17:30.

It would also be hardly worth it. Passengers would have to get the 14:40 to Stansted (54 min wait) for the 16:27 to Ely (52 wait) to finally arrive Norwich 19:17 only 7 minutes earlier than if waiting for the direct 17:30 & a journey time of 4h37!!

Apart from poor connecting times it unfortunately clashes with some current 2hr gaps in both XC & EMR timetables on those routes.

Looks like XC are cancelling several services between Stansted & Cambridge due to shortage of traincrew. RR are however being used for these.
 
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We travelled on the 12.30 from Liverpool Street. Busy but not full.

A 10-car 720 which did a good job soaking up the passengers
 

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We travelled on the 12.30 from Liverpool Street. Busy but not full.

A 10-car 720 which did a good job soaking up the passengers
Yes they are good at that. It’s the Norwich services that really seemed to have suffered today with loadings.

Looks like Sarurday 23rd July is the next ASLEF strike.
 
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