"Meltdown Monday"
The day the rail industry belatedly planned engineering works and scheduled trains ... then within hours of them being due to run changed them again because they find (taken by surprise?) that they don't have the crew available.
Is this a lack of joined up thinking, a false dream of a a great crew room full of staff, incompetence, or planned to let people down in two more gentle steps rather than one big step?
Train crew rosters are should be published to traincrew 5 days in advance. Once they have been published that's it, they can't be changed, unless the driver or
TM‡ agrees. All the company can do is change the content of the diagram within the published booking on and off times.
Traincrew also get 5 days notice as to whether their leave has been granted. If a driver is available for rest day working and hasn't been booked out they can be asked at anytime whether they want to work.
Of course, the more a member of traincrew is willing to be moved at short notice the more they get favours back in the future.