Shocking day on Journey Check so far, 21 cancelled trains & ~ 14 part cancellations
Enough is enough, time for the ORR to act, a nice big fine for First Group will probably get them to pull their boots up
Please explain how "a nice big fine" is going solve anything.
The issues over Sunday working are well understood, as are the delays to the programme to train GWR crews on new/cascaded rolling stock - see back up this thread. In a number of the cancellations, e.g. Swindon-Gloucester shuttle and Plymouth-Gunnislake, that can be down to just one person, be it a driver or conductor, not being available for a shift, as was noted last weekend.
Things are improving on GWR - there were swathes of weekday cancellations as well earlier in the year due to crew issues - these are now increasingly rare unless some bit of infrastructure has broken and services and crews are all over the place as a result
There are currently 6 full cancellations and a dozen part-cancellations on Northern - which has not been immune from similar problems to GWR recently.
See
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/northern-rails-problems-in-lancashire.163590/
Should Northern get a not quite so big fine, so that they pull their socks up?
And there are 99 cancellations on Thameslink Great Northern at the moment....