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« on: December 26, 2022, 06:20:10 »

Both BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) and Sky are reporting that difficulties with be encountered due to rail strikes on Boxing day.
Don't think there has been a very limited rail service on boxing since approx 1988.

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« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2022, 07:56:30 »

Both BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) and Sky are reporting that difficulties with be encountered due to rail strikes on Boxing day.
Don't think there has been a very limited rail service on boxing since approx 1988.



There has not been on the GW (Great Western) ToC territory, other ToC's have been running limited services.

The biggest loss to the Rail Industry is the amount of engineering work that has been cancelled, most of this work has taken a year or two in the planning.  Quite a lot of these improvements will be lost due to the way CP6 (Control Period 6 - The five year period between 2019 and 2024) funding works the DfT» (Department for Transport - about) / Treasury do not allow the funds to be rolled over to the next financial year. 
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« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2022, 07:58:48 »

Think the media are getting it wrong again over rail dispute

Both BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) and Sky are reporting that difficulties with be encountered due to rail strikes on Boxing day.
Don't think there has been a very limited rail service on boxing since approx 1988

There has not been on the GW (Great Western) ToC territory, other ToC's have been running limited services.

The biggest loss to the Rail Industry is the amount of engineering work that has been cancelled, most of this work has taken a year or two in the planning.  Quite a lot of these improvements will be lost due to the way CP6 (Control Period 6 - The five year period between 2019 and 2024) funding works the DfT» (Department for Transport - about) / Treasury do not allow the funds to be rolled over to the next financial year. 

Yes, I would agree too - the lack of passenger trains today (Boxing Day) is almost entirely due to the annual near total closure of the network on this day every year. It has nothing to do with striking workers or government and their agents not meeting their demands.  In past years, many of us on this forum have bemoaned the virtually zero train service on 26th December and that at a time when Messrs Whelan, Lynch, Harper and Sunak (or their predecessors) have not been in a hot war.

Where today's strike is or will have an effect as I understand it is in the engineering department, where major upgrades and replacements that require a closure to normal trains will not / are not going ahead.

The media is "always" looking for a good story that 'motivates' their readers, and at a quiet time of year such as this will make a mountain out of a molehill.   If they do so in a way that will rally their followers, they'll do so and I thinks I see strong elements of that.
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« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2022, 08:18:59 »

For the record - from The Daily Mail

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NO trains tomorrow as rail union calls Boxing Day strike forcing thousands to make alternative plans... after forcing millions onto roads for Xmas getaway

* There will be no trains running in the UK (United Kingdom) on Boxing Day after new strike called
* Traffic is expected to be poor after the RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) union called for industrial action
* Trains would normally start running again on December 26 at a reduced rate

By MATT POWELL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 13:35, 25 December 2022 | UPDATED: 17:33, 25 December 2022

There will be no trains running on Boxing Day anywhere in the UK after more strikes have been called by rail workers.

Travel chaos is expected for thousands who are now forced to find alternative plans at short notice.

Trains usually start running again on December 26 at a reduced rate after the Christmas Day shutdown.

Ah - but the headline says millions have been "forced onto the roads for Christmas" but that the Boxing Day lack of passenger trains will bring chaos for thousands.  And that choice of different orders of magnitude for the rail trouble as a whole and for the direct effect of today's strike suggests to me that Matt Powell knows he's stretching a story!  He's whipping up public outrage - outrage may be due over the the whole strike situation, but really not (IMHO (in my humble opinion)) on the effect on passengers today when most of us would not have been provided with trains anyway, even if the rail workers had been totally at work if called.
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« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2022, 08:52:24 »

GWR (Great Western Railway) are warning about the impact that strike/industrial action will be having tomorrow too.....
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