This weekend, there was some localised disruption on GWR services to Cheltenham and on Southern along the South Coast from Brighton. It appears that provisions to secure replacement road transport were extermely limited / non-existent. This has primarily been down to TOCs simply being unable to source replacement road transport - in many cases the bus operators have got nobody available and I've heard multiple reports that there's a flight from the industry as bus drivers are going onto become HGV drivers and doubling their salary. I'm aware that in some cases all that could be mustered up was a solitary coach.
To me this seems to pose a bit of an crisis for railway companies for either a) major disruption or b) planned engineering works as there may simply be no alternative available for passengers. I would hope this is just a short-term issue as a fall out of the ongoing HGV driver shortage, but this has the potential to roll on for some time. Not sure what's the contignencies should be when your contingency isn't available!
To me this seems to pose a bit of an crisis for railway companies for either a) major disruption or b) planned engineering works as there may simply be no alternative available for passengers. I would hope this is just a short-term issue as a fall out of the ongoing HGV driver shortage, but this has the potential to roll on for some time. Not sure what's the contignencies should be when your contingency isn't available!
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