Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Chess gets a risqu makeover. Though the increase may sound small, train operators only have limited contingencies for absences before they have to start cancelling services. Read about our approach to external linking. In 2020, Congress passed a temporary law requiring most companies to offer two weeks of paid sick leave to staff forced to quarantine due to Covid-19. London Waterloo had 388,000 planned rail and Tube stops on services to and from the station in 2022; in 2021 it was 395,00 and in 2019 that number was 477,000. You can also get in touch in the following ways: If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Read about our approach to external linking. The suspension has been announced 11 days before a fresh RMT strike ballot is due to close on 15 November. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? "It shouldn't be because you live in a state that's more pro-business than another state that you lose paid sick leave.". BBC Summary A rail strike by 40,000 RMT union members has caused four in five trains to be cancelled today as many people return to work after the Christmas break The 48-hour strike is the. Follow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But Mr Wolmar said he believed there was more to the recent problems, with a "perfect storm" of factors. The train operator has apologised for the "enormous amount of frustration and inconvenience". It said the main reason was drivers suddenly stopped volunteering to work on their rest days. She said she took taxis to and from work which cost her more than 160. Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. A CrossCountry spokesperson said: "Over the past week we have suffered a spike in short-term sickness, resulting in a number of late-notice cancellations for which we apologise. Rail companies say the RMT announcement came too late to prevent disruption and a temporary revised timetable for Saturday, Sunday and Monday will remain in place. At the capital's 15 busiest stations, just under a third of all services were either delayed or cancelled. Read about our approach to external linking. She hopes to catch a ScotRail train but fears it could now take "up to four changes" before she gets to Gatwick. High-speed trains withdrawn over crack fears, High-speed train delayed on first journey, Zelensky says fatal crash was consequence of war, New Zealand PM Ardern to step down next month, Mass strikes in France bid to halt pension age rise. It is advising passengers to travel as early as possible. Geoff Hobbs, Transport for London's director of public transport planning, said: "At times things can go wrong and services may need to be cancelled or delayed. The cancellation of the strikes has come "too late" for thousands of rugby fans travelling to Cardiff for the Wales v New Zealand autumn international, Network Rail Wales said. Read about our approach to external linking. It acknowledged that the national dispute involving three rail unions had caused severe disruption and on cancellations it said "the industry is working hard to cope with an unprecedented convergence of issues". Chickens come home to roost and you do tend to get caught out if you don't have enough people.". The trains have either been cancelled completely or terminated at Birmingham. Mr Montgomery's explanation was that Covid directly caused a backlog of driver training, which can take up to 18 months, and staff sickness levels are high. VideoChess gets a risqu makeover, The Nigerian influencers paid to manipulate your vote, How a baffling census delay is hurting Indians, How Mafia boss was caught at a clinic after 30 years. Nina. 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"At a moment when we were celebrating all these front-line workers, who were keeping the economy going at the risk of their own health, that we couldn't include paid sick days as a requirement in our Covid relief package - it was just shocking.". Great Western Railway, Hull Trains, London North Eastern Railway and TransPennine Express trains of the Hitachi 800 model were taken out of service for safety inspections. #LNERUpdate Our line is now reopened.Services are beginning to operate, however due to disruption there will be a reduced service to and from #LondonKingsCross today. A spokesperson for LNER said services were being reduced as a result of an increase in the number of our staff self-isolating due to Covid. "This rolling stock must not be allowed back into service until we are 100% certain these trains are safe. Repair work is ongoing across the UK's rail network, and Network Rail said it has launched a new taskforce to investigate how the railway can become more resilient in the wake of the heatwave. In January, CrossCountry blamed Covid infections for reduced services and cancellations, saying more than one in 10 staff were absent. (The other, South Korea, is now trialling a paid sick leave programme.). That figure stood at 7.6% a month ago. It'll pay a quarter of your train ticket so it doesn't cover anything.". Train companies are preparing to introduce a new timetable on 11 December - although RMT strikes are planned in its first week. President Macron's reform programme faces a make-or-break moment, as French unions stage a day of mass strikes and protests on Thursday against his plans to push back the age of . CrossCountry has been contacted for a response to the union's claims. "It's made getting getting into central London a nightmare and you end up having to squeeze on to a packed bus if you can find space. "I won't be fully relaxed until we're in the stadium," said Mr Ellis. Another transport union, the TSSA, had already called off November action at Network Rail so that discussions could continue, and on Friday suspended planned rail strikes on Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at different firms. It says this means less flexibility. Passengers at King's Cross station faced further disruption on Wednesday. Govia Thameslink, which operates the Thameslink, Great Northern and Southern franchises, said it may also have to cancel services at short notice due to high numbers of staff off sick with Covid and other seasonal illnesses. West Midlands Trains said a reduced timetable will remain in place for at least Saturday and Monday. 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Read about our approach to external linking. The Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train companies, said that it was "positive" that the RMT had "stepped back from the brink". Some were trying to use tickets that were originally for Monday or Tuesday, only to find that they couldn't travel as expected today either. Overall, passenger numbers are now back up to 80% of the observed usage three years ago but, as rail users return, performance has slipped at many stations. Read More. And a London Underground strike planned for Thursday is still set to go ahead. Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Chess gets a risqu makeover. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. Avanti West Coast, which operates trains between London and Birmingham, Manchester, North Wales and Scotland, had the highest proportion of cancellations, at 8%. 21:17, 14 JAN 2023 Full list of new series on ITV, BBC and Channel 4 this week (Image: Shared Content Unit) Telly lovers are in for a treat this week as a number of popular programmes return with. A train drivers' union has blamed an operating company for repeated rail cancellations, saying it does not employ enough staff. Read about our approach to external linking. More than 90,000 tested positive for Covid in the UK on Monday, but the true number is thought to be much higher. "TPE has been pre-cancelling anything between 250 - 450 trains per week since summer across its network due to crew unavailability. In the past week 5.2% of trains were cancelled, versus an average of 2.9%, according to the Rail Delivery Group. BBC Both EastEnders at 7.30pm and. CrossCountry has apologised for its cancellations over recent weeks, saying they are due to "short-term sickness". All high-speed Great Western Railway services between London, Bristol, Cardiff and Penzance have been cancelled and customers are advised not to attempt to travel today. BBC News A train drivers' union has blamed an operating company for repeated rail cancellations, saying it does not employ enough staff. However it urged customers to check for late-notice changes, saying as cases continue to rise, some short notice alterations may be required throughout the festive period. He said: "If you get a welding torch up against the [electronics] it can fry [them] so the first thing you have to do is take all the electronics out, disconnect all the electrical equipment, that takes a day or two, then you do the repair, then you have to put it all back again.". Another passenger described the Nottingham to Cardiff service as "shocking". On some days, numerous trains in a row have been cancelled. While he said he believed people should be able to take time off if sick, "the one-size-fits-all approach does not work on issues, especially on paid leave". "And that opinion comes not just from me as a railway watcher but from a lot of the senior railway people I talk to.". Transpennine hasn't had a rest day working agreement in place with Aslef for nearly a year. He added: "Specialist teams worked all night but have been unable to fix the cables in time for the start of service this morning. Passengers warned over Christmas rail disruption, UN's top women meet Taliban over female aid worker ban, New Zealand PM Ardern to step down next month, Zelensky says fatal crash was consequence of war, How a baffling census delay is hurting Indians, Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Power shift in Vietnam as president quits. Read about our approach to external linking. VideoChess gets a risqu makeover, The Nigerian influencers paid to manipulate your vote, How a baffling census delay is hurting Indians, How Mafia boss was caught at a clinic after 30 years. Disruption on East Coast Main Line continues, but trains are now running again between London and Scotland. The 48-hour strike is the first of two . Services on the East Coast Main Line, which connects London and Edinburgh, were disrupted after a fire on the track near Sandy in Bedfordshire. Property damage. Great Western Railway said it was seeing increasing absence rates, and some disruption of its services. Read about our approach to external linking. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. In total, 520,853 services were scheduled across Great Britain between 16 October and 12 November, 15% lower than the same time in 2019. TfL said that major works were taking place on a 20-mile stretch between Euston and Watford Junction. By Hugh Schofield. Train strikes: What are the dates and which lines are affected? Similar disruption was seen at London Euston, where trains to and from Scotland have been cancelled. Services to parts of Shropshire and Staffordshire also face problems problems due to the damage. It said staff were also taking time off after receiving booster jabs. "People are just deflated because this has happened so many times.". More than two dozen services leaving from London King's Cross and Euston stations were axed or delayed on Wednesday morning. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. We are always looking at ways to minimise these incidents whenever we can. But it said it expected the disruption will continue to have "a significant impact" on services between Newcastle and York for the rest of the day. What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? LNER, which runs services on the East Coast main line, is operating an amended timetable in the week before Christmas because of the number of absent drivers and train managers. You can also get in touch in the following ways: If you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Author and railway analyst Christian Wolmar said the railways were in the "worst state" he had seen in 25 years of writing about them. More than 90,000 tested positive for Covid in the UK on Monday, but the true number is thought to be much higher. They disputed claims by workers that managers are increasingly rejecting such requests, as staffing levels have fallen. When trains are running, Ms Blackburn said they are often crowded and strikes have added extra stress and expense. She says the situation is "being handled in the worst way" and that she "got less than 30 minutes' notice by email" of the cancellations, by which time she was already at the train station. For a moment, during the pandemic, it seemed like a national policy might emerge. Hull Trains said its services would resume as normal following "thorough checks by Hitachi" on its fleet of Class 800 series trains. This is the latest strike in the long-running row over pay and. She said the operator had a plan in place to make improvements, and was working with Network Rail to improve reliability. RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said the threat of strike action "has made the rail employers see sense". Read about our approach to external linking. Zelensky says fatal crash was consequence of war, New Zealand PM Ardern to step down next month, Arizona town with no water using rain to flush toilets. When she didn't have paid sick leave, she ended up with no vacation and had to take unpaid days to care for her daughter, straining her finances. Avanti is aiming to restore a full timetable in mid December - without relying on overtime. He said there were some areas in which there could be "commonality" between the two parties on workforce reform. "Nobody out here will tell you that they don't want to work - we're all out here to make money. A spokesperson for Aslef said in relation to CrossCountry: "I'm afraid they don't really employ enough drivers to deliver the services they promise passengers they will run. "We need to remember that we're really not good at running businesses from Congress," Senator Richard Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, said in May 2021, the last major public hearing on the issue. "On a semi-regular basis I'm getting home at nine o'clock at night," she added. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "I found that devastating," she said, adding that a national law now looks "impossible". Rail services between Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton have been hit by major disruption. But the Aslef union has claimed that CrossCountry does not employ enough train drivers to allow for services to run as normal when staff are off sick. At the UK busiest station, Waterloo, 76% of trains arrived on time; Victoria had 72% arrive on time, London Bridge had 62%, Liverpool Street had 86% and Clapham Junction 60%. Tom and Lydia Ellis, who are from New Zealand but living in Bristol, will have to take a bus to get to the game. Another operator, West Midlands Trains, has also blamed the pandemic for a delay in training new drivers. 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Author and rail historian Christian Wolmar says despite a stronger "general feeling of rail malaise" in the north of England, with trains statistically worse performing, often the impact of disruption in the capital was greater. DISRUPTION: Monday 05 DecemberSorry, we have a fair few cancellations tomorrow due to driver shortages. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Third was TransPennine Express, with 5.8% of trains cancelled. Dozens of Class 800s are stacked up waiting to be checked at Hitachi's Swansea depot, Hitachi 800 trains entered service in 2017. "People are scared for their jobs .We need protection.". "It just shocked me that they wanted us to use our paid time off and we would be off 10 or 14 days," said the 38-year-old, who is a community advocate for A Better Balance, an advocacy group, referring to the extended quarantines that were common at the start of the pandemic. LNER passengers affected by cancellations can use their tickets on the following operators' services instead: LNER said affected customers' tickets will be valid up to and including Sunday 16 May, though a new reservation would need to be made. The affected routes are between London Kings Cross and Leeds, and London Kings Cross and Lincoln. Judging by reservations, it expects Thursday to be the busiest day of the week. Last month, six of the trains were taken out of service by GWR after hairline cracks were found in the suspension system during routine maintenance. "Here Biden is supposed to be this super pro-labour president and Amtrak Joe and everything like that," he said, referring to a nickname given to the president for his fondness of riding the national passenger rail. VideoChess gets a risqu makeover, The Nigerian influencers paid to manipulate your vote. 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But the operator added that it expected services to be "extremely busy" and could not guarantee that social distancing guidelines would be adhered to. Govia Thameslink, which operates the Thameslink, Great Northern and Southern franchises, said it may also have to cancel services at short notice due to high numbers of staff off sick with Covid and other seasonal illnesses. What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? In addition to rising rates of Covid among staff, the operators website also advises that its driver training programme has been severely disrupted by the virus and social distancing constraints. Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, LNER, Scotrail and West Midlands Railway have all reported cancellations. But it says more drivers are, steadily, qualifying. Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Chess gets a risqu makeover. The project budget increased to 3.25m, partly because more ambitious plans were drawn up, but also because of a delay over materials blamed on Brexit. More than two dozen services leaving from London King's Cross and Euston stations were. Are you affected by issues covered in this story? What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? The railway minister warned disruption was likely for a "prolonged period". Chess gets a risqu makeover. "It's a slap in the face," said Gabe, a registered Democrat who voted for Mr Biden in 2020 and is part of Railroad Workers United, an informal group that raised concerns over the issue. The murder mystery series is based on Anthony Horowitz's books of the. 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Newly released data from the Office of Road and Rail shows 3.8% of trains in Great Britain have been cancelled in the year up to 12 November - or one in every 26. 12:36 Lauren Cole-Lomas All the trains cancelled from Woking between 12:30pm and 1:30pm 12:34 to Portsmouth Harbour - Cancelled 12:44 to London Waterloo - Cancelled 12:46 to Exeter St. Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, LNER, Scotrail and West Midlands Railway have all reported cancellations. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Network Rail, which owns and runs most of the train lines in Britain, warned passengers that journeys will take "much longer than normal" and could involve taking rail replacement buses, as work continues to repair the railway. Reuters. ScotRail will only run a skeleton service on Saturday, with the rail operator warning of significant disruption to its services. But she regularly gets stuck in Warrington when trains are delayed or cancelled and has to get a taxi home. South Western Railway said it had only seen a small number of alterations this week, but was closely monitoring the impact of the new Omicron variant on staff availability. pic.twitter.com/Ouiz9xJ39D. Network Rail warned that services would remain "extremely limited", with trains on Monday also likely to be affected. Mr Shoveller said on Monday there will be "limited ability" to change the strike timetable. TransPennine Express said on Saturday afternoon that it would be able to reintroduce some trains into service following safety checks. You can also get in touch in the following ways: If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Only 11 of its routes will remain open. Read about our approach to external linking. Two of every five London trains disrupted in 2022. 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