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« on: December 20, 2019, 10:50:25 »
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/rail-train-passenger-disruption-network-south-western-railway-eurostar-gwr-a9253641.html

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Christmas Day

No trains will run anywhere in the UK▸ (United Kingdom). National Express and Megabus plan to run more long-distance services than ever on 25 December.

Boxing Day

Only a few train operators will run any services, and they will be sharply reduced from the usual timetable. You can make some progress on: Chiltern; London Overground, for the first time, from Highbury & Islington to West Croydon and between Clapham Junction and Hackney Wick; Merseyrail; Northern; Scotrail; Southern; and Stansted Express, only between the Essex airport and Tottenham Hale, on the Victoria Line of the London Underground, but by no means all stations and lines will be served.

Southeastern will not run the high-speed services it normally operates on 26 December because of engineering work at Ashford International.

Northern: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=22576.msg278130#msg278130

Overground: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=22277.msg274259#msg274259

Isle of Wight (bus!): http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=22451.msg276547#msg276547

TfL» (Transport for London - about): https://tfl.gov.uk/status-updates/major-works-and-events/christmas-travel
and https://tfl.gov.uk/status-updates/major-works-and-events/boxing-day-2019

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« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2019, 11:04:02 »
Just don’t use any Boxing Day services in order to do some shopping at Wickes...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/10488440/wickes-closing-boxing-day-2019/
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« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2019, 11:57:08 »
I suspect it's more commercial reality. I can't imagine a very DiY focussed store (ie without much of the soft furnishing/home type stock) does much business on Boxing Day, so paying over the odds to get staff in is probably not worth it.
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« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2019, 10:32:38 »
There was actually a passenger train at Reading on Christmas Day, albeit briefly.

A Crossrail service from Slough was booked to arrive at 00:05 but was nearly two minutes early.

Perhaps not surprisingly it didn't hang around and the ECS▸ (Empty Coaching Stock) working left five minutes early to head to the carriage sidings at Maidenhead.
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« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2019, 16:31:03 »
Purely out of interest I have just looked at Live Departures for Terminal 4 today. Correctly it lists trains at twenty minute intervals to Terminal 2/3
Unfortunately above the listings it says clearly and in red there are no trains running today.
Another example of the rail industry being unable to inform accurately and something I have asked for some time; who checks information before it is released
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