Thank you. It will be interesting to see if any IR issues develop in the meantime. LNER have a good PR team so have got in early with their announcement. You would think other TOCs would do the same and have a start date of 14 February - who knows there could be a joined up PR campaign - fall back in love with the railways! OK I know that will be thrown back at them pretty quickly
As @JonathanH says most were introduced in October, and one final round trip to make up a two-hourly service was added at the following December timetable.
That's fair enough but of course it's all a very different situation to what is mainly happening at LNER isn't it.
That is very informative insight and at least gives us confidence that this wasn't a smokescreen to permanently reduce service levels although I suspect some operators will take the easy option to ensure they don't risk there bonus earn out metrics.
Perhaps, but Southeastern who are a commuter TOC are now committing to restoring their Dec 21 timetable by next week.
Very unlikely but Dec21 was best service level since Mar20 so its good that SE are just getting on with it unlike their neighbour SWR which is dire.
It also shows that the aborted May 22 TT change should be implemented from May 23.
That's because there is not enough to double up every service. Partly made worse by HST's only being used on Sundays. If you think the Manchester route is bad then look at the South West - North East route. 8 out of 15 services between Birmingham and Leeds today are 4 cars!
What does IR stand for? I will miss having three fast trains an hour from Guildford to Clapham Junction. Not that I travel on them all the time but they are handy when I want to vers just 1 fast train an hour.
Case rates have declined considerably in all English regions since first week of January so you would have expect there to have been more of an issue a few weeks ago. As @Clarence Yard quotes above operators are supposed to be reinstating what they can to deal with overcrowding although I suspect that wasn't the case on AWC outside of Fri-Sun as many trains ran around half empty even pre covid during the middle of the day.
No of course there are differences, but people use Avanti to commute from Milton Keynes and LNER from Peterborough for example, plus Birmingham New Street to Euston is quicker than Littlehampton to Victoria or Weymouth to Waterloo which are commuter services. Totally agree there are big differences but I think there is some overlap
I'm guessing industrial relations, or infra-red. More likely the former in this case, if I'm being honest.
Case rates peaked at 5-10% testing positive (ONS data, just after New Year, varied a bit by region) and vaccinated contacts can now do testing rather than isolate. The Birmingham & Manchester cut to 1/hour is the biggest percentage, but it does seem a lot more than the likely percentage of covid related absence, and even with other services which are hourly or less and more difficult to reduce, the overall service reduction must be much more than 10%.
Never I would have thought, they have just cut more this week!!!!!!
Glasgow services via brum was planned to restart next timetable change, wether it be a 2 hourly service or not like it used to be is unknown although had heard it was the plan. Likelihood of that happening is now unlikely, for various reasons, crew resources being a big one, non covid related. I believe the franchise commitment is only for a certain amount of west mids to Scotland services to run anyway and currently this is all covered by just the Edinburgh services. The current once daily northbound service to Glasgow via the west mids can be relatively busy, especially on a Saturday.
Well, it didn't happen in the Brighton mainline tonight. Train from Littlehampton was delayed due to a speed restriction. It should depart Haywards Heath at 17:42 but it departed at 17:49. This held up the 17:46 to Bedford that also got held up behind the 17:50 train to London Bridge that was also late but had now overtaken it. So Bedford train departed 10 minutes late, having only been 2 minutes late departing Brighton.
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