mike57
Established Member
Traditionaly engineering works take place over holiday weekends because this has less impact on commuters, however post covid the trains seem busier on a weekend than during the week. This is born out by our two most recent longer trips, where we were able to get good price advanced first class tickets on a Friday (or any other weekday) but everything on a Saturday had sold out (One trip to Manchester, one to London)
Our local route, Hull, Bridlington, Scarborough is the subject to works Easter weekend, which means that effectivley people will probably not choose to travel by rail to any of the Yorkshire coast resorts from Hull or beyond. Typically with Easter being mid April this year that would be a very busy weekend with day trippers, probably one of the busiest weekends of the year.
So do Network Rail need to rethink their policy, and perhaps do works during the week?
I get the feeling that the rail industry in general is not responding quickly to the fact that far more journeys are lesuire related nowadays. Apart from commuting more general business travel has been cut back as well, I for one now have the technology to avoid the need for a weekly trip to Preston (by train), now we are out of covid restrictions this is scaled back to 1 per month or so.
Surely works should be arranged on the basis of 'least journieys affected'
Our local route, Hull, Bridlington, Scarborough is the subject to works Easter weekend, which means that effectivley people will probably not choose to travel by rail to any of the Yorkshire coast resorts from Hull or beyond. Typically with Easter being mid April this year that would be a very busy weekend with day trippers, probably one of the busiest weekends of the year.
So do Network Rail need to rethink their policy, and perhaps do works during the week?
I get the feeling that the rail industry in general is not responding quickly to the fact that far more journeys are lesuire related nowadays. Apart from commuting more general business travel has been cut back as well, I for one now have the technology to avoid the need for a weekly trip to Preston (by train), now we are out of covid restrictions this is scaled back to 1 per month or so.
Surely works should be arranged on the basis of 'least journieys affected'