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I'll start with what's already known. From Monday 29th November until at least Sunday 5th December there will be no HSTs in use with XC. The situation for 6th December onwards is currently unclear. The replacements are 4 car voyagers, made available by splitting diagrams that currently use voyager pairs.
In addition to the HSTs not being used, for the same period a number of Turbostar services have been cancelled, as well as a single Voyager service on the Reading - Manchester route. The services in question are as follows (Monday - Friday):
05:15 Cambridge - Birmingham New Street
06:52 Birmingham New Street - Leicester
07:14 Reading - Manchester Piccadilly
07:19 Birmingham New Street - Nottingham
07:37 Nottingham - Birmingham New Street
07:52 Birmingham New Street - Leicester
08:18 Leicester - Birmingham New Street
08:19 Birmingham New Street - Nottingham
09:07 Nottingham - Cardiff Central
09:12 Birmingham New Street - Nottingham
09:15 Leicester - Birmingham New Street
09:22 Birmingham New Street - Stansted Airport
10:07 Nottingham - Cardiff Central
10:22 Birmingham New Street - Stansted Airport
11:07 Nottingham - Cardiff Central
12:45 Cardiff Central - Nottingham
13:45 Cardiff Central - Nottingham
14:27 Stansted Airport - Birmingham New Street
14:45 Cardiff Central - Nottingham
15:27 Stansted Airport - Birmingham New Street
16:41 Nottingham - Birmingham New Street
17:41 Nottingham - Birmingham New Street
17:52 Birmingham New Street - Leicester
18:19 Birmingham New Street - Nottingham
18:45 Nottingham - Birmingham New Street
19:12 Birmingham New Street - Nottingham
19:18 Leicester - Birmingham New Street
19:50 Cardiff Central - Nottingham
20:22 Birmingham New Street - Cambridge
What remains unclear is exactly what the cause of all this is, but I've heard several suggestions that it's the expiration of the agreement between ASLEF and XC for rest day working on the 28th November. It would be incredibly helpful to establish what the real cause of all this is, given the level of service reductions this'll impose on many people (be that in the form of cancellations or short forms), this certainly deserves media attention, possibly the involvement of politicians (local MPs, not ministers).
An email went out to some staff members. It appears not to have gone out to all.
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