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Author Topic: Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway since September 2017 - ongoing discussion  (Read 424530 times)
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« Reply #1815 on: December 18, 2021, 07:57:58 »

Message on GWR (Great Western Railway) website and on Twitter feed at 2230 on Friday night.

 https://www.gwr.com/travel-information/travel-updates/live-network-updates/disruption-information
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« Reply #1816 on: December 18, 2021, 11:32:17 »

Next week looking bleak as several friends and colleagues now isolating.  Fortunately, I think there will be quite a dramatic drop in the numbers of people travelling, especially the Christmas rush, which is now likely to be much quieter.
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« Reply #1817 on: December 18, 2021, 12:56:44 »

Next week looking bleak as several friends and colleagues now isolating.  Fortunately, I think there will be quite a dramatic drop in the numbers of people travelling, especially the Christmas rush, which is now likely to be much quieter.

Tomorrow looking especially bleak.
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« Reply #1818 on: December 18, 2021, 17:33:25 »

Next week looking bleak as several friends and colleagues now isolating.  Fortunately, I think there will be quite a dramatic drop in the numbers of people travelling, especially the Christmas rush, which is now likely to be much quieter.

Tomorrow looking especially bleak.

Yes, indeed.  I’m expecting we may well see daily cancellations numbering in the 100s.
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« Reply #1819 on: December 18, 2021, 17:41:30 »

Next week looking bleak as several friends and colleagues now isolating.  Fortunately, I think there will be quite a dramatic drop in the numbers of people travelling, especially the Christmas rush, which is now likely to be much quieter.

Tomorrow looking especially bleak.

Yes, indeed.  I’m expecting we may well see daily cancellations numbering in the 100s.

Happy Christmas everyone!   Shocked
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« Reply #1820 on: December 18, 2021, 17:46:43 »

Happy Christmas everyone!   Shocked

Not sure about happy.  I think I’ll just wish everyone a safe Christmas and a safer new year!
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« Reply #1821 on: December 18, 2021, 17:54:41 »

Happy Christmas everyone!   Shocked

Not sure about happy.  I think I’ll just wish everyone a safe Christmas and a safer new year!

I'm aiming for happy and safe as I am sure are most.

I wish you all the same.

For those who are travelling over the next few days, good luck and do stay safe.
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« Reply #1822 on: December 18, 2021, 18:59:10 »

Next week looking bleak as several friends and colleagues now isolating.  Fortunately, I think there will be quite a dramatic drop in the numbers of people travelling, especially the Christmas rush, which is now likely to be much quieter.

Tomorrow looking especially bleak.

Yes, indeed.  I’m expecting we may well see daily cancellations numbering in the 100s.

Please don't blame GWR (Great Western Railway) or even the Railway. 
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« Reply #1823 on: December 18, 2021, 19:09:32 »

I PARTIALLY blame GWR (Great Western Railway) because they had such a miserable record of staff shortages since long before the pandemic.

If the pandemic had not occurred, does anyone really believe that a full Sunday service would have been available ?

 
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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« Reply #1824 on: December 18, 2021, 20:03:58 »

If the pandemic had not occurred, does anyone really believe that a full Sunday service would have been available ?

Very unlikely.  Which is why it was one of my four prongs in the perfect storm I talked about a week ago today.

However, disruption next week could be at unprecedented levels.  I see the London Mayor had declared a major incident over concerns that emergency and other key services will be severely tested due to staff availability.
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« Reply #1825 on: December 19, 2021, 15:50:06 »

Obviously I am tempting fate here, but it perhaps hasn't been as bad as was feared/forecast by some today (so far anyway?)

Especially in terms of long distance cancellations due to crew shortage?
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« Reply #1826 on: December 19, 2021, 16:04:55 »

Obviously I am tempting fate here, but it perhaps hasn't been as bad as was feared/forecast by some today (so far anyway?)

Especially in terms of long distance cancellations due to crew shortage?
No, it hasn’t been too bad. The SW semifasts have taken a bit of a hit on the cancellation front today but the fasts stepping in to cover Pewsey, Westbury and Castle Cary, so all in all been okay.
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« Reply #1827 on: December 19, 2021, 18:32:31 »

Obviously I am tempting fate here, but it perhaps hasn't been as bad as was feared/forecast by some today (so far anyway?)

Especially in terms of long distance cancellations due to crew shortage?

Morning Up services suffered because of overrunning engineering work between Totnes and Plymouth resulting in two or three cancellations
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« Reply #1828 on: December 19, 2021, 21:29:54 »

Obviously I am tempting fate here, but it perhaps hasn't been as bad as was feared/forecast by some today (so far anyway?)

Especially in terms of long distance cancellations due to crew shortage?

Yes, very pleasing to see today wasn’t too bad.
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« Reply #1829 on: December 21, 2021, 12:07:06 »

I did the 14.03 Paddington to Penzance throughout on the 19th, it was very full but the 9 coach IET (Intercity Express Train) just about coped with it. It left Pad 40 mins late (late getting in) and arrived at Penzance 55 mins late, no trolley appeared at all, in fact no staff appeared at all after Reading but, I guess, at least the train ran.
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