Exactly! It's seems that lots of people have axes to grind over Northern, whilst other TOCs get away scot free.
I don't think Northern Connect ever saw the light of day under Arriva
Well said!
It appears they have stopped that practice so far this week.
Correct.
That's largely due to Northern operating a much larger route network with a lot more services to go wrong and many more people to be inconvenienced.
That's fine and good if you can do flexi-time, but not all employers are that generous. If you need to be in the office for 9am on the dot, it's effectively extended your commute by half an hour. It's not difficult to see how this is an unpopular change, even if it's in favour of a more clockface timetable.
That's how Northern and Network Rail planners understandably see it, for the greater good. However there are still quite a lot of jobs still organised around a 9.00 start. That's a discussion recurring elsewhere in other threads.
That's unfortunate for that person, but you can hardly expect Northern to consult every single passenger on every change. Have you not considered that the change may have worked out better for other passengers?
Exactly. Most jobs in shops and offices in city centres have a fixed 9am start, and trains arriving in the city centre at 0805 am and 0905 am are useless for such employees. Northern is clearly not interested in local commuters on the Hope Valley line. The absence of a return trip at about 1745 (in addition to that at 1714) is also not helpful. Since the demolition of the island and eastern platforms at Dore in the mid-1980s, it has not been possible for mainline local services from the South calling at Dronfield to call at Dore as well in order to improve the service from this station.
I'm not sure that timetable changes are in scope of this thread, so I'll keep this brief. But how many people only walk into their place of employment at bang on 09:00? I know when I briefly worked in retail as a teenager, a 9am opening did not mean walking through the door at 9am. You got there well before, and set up ready to receive punters at 9. Methinks this is simply a stormy tea-cup scenario.
That's certainly something to celebrate.
Can we have our Huddersfield - Castleford all day service back now as well please
Yes, as long as we can have the extra 1/2 hourly semi-fasts back on the Sheffield to Lincoln line
January is generally good for cover. Don’t tend to have anywhere near as many train crew shortages.Fantastic, and not many Northern cancellations seen at Sheffield station over the last 3 days, just TP still having problems. Northern seem to be improving
South Yorkshire is currently the "hub" of Northern Cancellations. Difficult to know whether there are any extenuating circumstances or it's down to poor management.
My gut feeling given the constant (but low level) weekend cancellations out of Sheffield, is that the bank holiday accentuated the existing rostering struggle and nobody was willing to work overtime with it being a bank holiday with nice weather forecast (which is fair enough). I'm not sure whether something else happened on top of this though; the number of units stabled at the depot suggest something may have happened to block units in? Or was it possibly something to do with engineering works at Dore or East of Meadowhall where some services were buses.
The Doncaster stopping service was reduced by a third and the York service reduced. That would save at least two units.
