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Title: Sunday crew shortages - 2025 Post by: grahame on January 19, 2025, 09:35:15 Quote 18:27 Cardiff Central to Trowbridge due 19:51 18:27 Cardiff Central to Trowbridge due 19:51 will be cancelled. This is due to a shortage of train crew. A number today - Bristol to Cardiff, Trowbridge, Worcester and Taunton. What prognosis for this year (2025)? No reports of cancellations on the first-to-go line from Westbury to Swindon because all Sunday trains since 22nd December have been cancelled with longer notice and bus replacements provided - and such longer notice cancellations don't actually get reported as cancellations. Title: Re: Sunday crew shortages - 2025 Post by: LiskeardRich on January 19, 2025, 09:50:01 Time and half for rest day working agreement I’m led to believe ended yesterday. Weekend running has been pretty decent since it came into place in mid December
Title: Re: Sunday crew shortages - 2025 Post by: IndustryInsider on January 19, 2025, 12:18:19 Time and half for rest day working agreement I’m led to believe ended yesterday. Weekend running has been pretty decent since it came into place in mid December It's still time-and-a-half for drivers to work any additional shift. Except on a Sunday when it is still time-and-a-quarter (and always has been apart from 22nd/29th December). The prognosis? Depends on the negotiations that the DfT have finally allowed GWR and the Unions to undertake to bring Sunday within the working week. Union reps have been busy getting ideas and explaining the possible outcomes at various depots over the last week or so. Title: Re: Sunday crew shortages - 2025 Post by: LiskeardRich on January 19, 2025, 19:50:51 Time and half for rest day working agreement I’m led to believe ended yesterday. Weekend running has been pretty decent since it came into place in mid December It's still time-and-a-half for drivers to work any additional shift. Except on a Sunday when it is still time-and-a-quarter (and always has been apart from 22nd/29th December). The prognosis? Depends on the negotiations that the DfT have finally allowed GWR and the Unions to undertake to bring Sunday within the working week. Union reps have been busy getting ideas and explaining the possible outcomes at various depots over the last week or so. The staff at Plymouth said they had some kind of enhancement which ended at the end of yesterday. Title: Re: Sunday crew shortages - 2025 Post by: IndustryInsider on January 19, 2025, 20:14:31 Time and half for rest day working agreement I’m led to believe ended yesterday. Weekend running has been pretty decent since it came into place in mid December It's still time-and-a-half for drivers to work any additional shift. Except on a Sunday when it is still time-and-a-quarter (and always has been apart from 22nd/29th December). The prognosis? Depends on the negotiations that the DfT have finally allowed GWR and the Unions to undertake to bring Sunday within the working week. Union reps have been busy getting ideas and explaining the possible outcomes at various depots over the last week or so. The staff at Plymouth said they had some kind of enhancement which ended at the end of yesterday. The only thing that ended yesterday was a two week or so period of guaranteed rest day work if you applied. It was a rather daft idea for a couple of weeks supposedly to allow drivers to catch up on outstanding training. Provided they weren’t breaking the Hidden agreements it meant if you applied for an additional shift (Monday to Saturday, not Sunday) you were booked out to work even if there were no uncovered shifts. Cost a lot for very little gain. Title: Re: Sunday crew shortages - 2025 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on January 19, 2025, 20:28:16 Thank you, IndustryInsider, for that ... erm ... inside information. :-X
Title: Re: Sunday crew shortages - 2025 Post by: IndustryInsider on January 20, 2025, 18:03:49 Thank you, IndustryInsider, for that ... erm ... inside information. :-X I’ll keep the inside information coming… A temporary agreement has been reached for drivers for an enhancement on Sunday’s which means Sunday’s will join the current rest day work enhancement from next Sunday until the summer timetable change. So time-and-a-half and a guaranteed payment of 9h30m, instead of time-and-a-quarter. Should make a noticeable difference. Title: Re: Sunday crew shortages - 2025 Post by: Timmer on January 20, 2025, 18:57:41 I’ll keep the inside information coming… A temporary agreement has been reached for drivers for an enhancement on Sunday’s which means Sunday’s will join the current rest day work enhancement from next Sunday until the summer timetable change. So time-and-a-half and a guaranteed payment of 9h30m, instead of time-and-a-quarter. Should make a noticeable difference. Great news. Thanks IndustryInsider. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |