Having read this I tweeted Trans Pennine Express Customer Services this morning and got the following reply virtually straight away:
The South Yorkshire Travel website reports that from 28th December, the Manchester-Sheffield-Doncaster-Cleethorpes service will be reduced from hourly to two-hourly.
There is currently a severe crew shortage at Cleethorpes. Barton Line currently completely suspended. There has been little choice but to reduce the south TPE service.
The uplift to 10 express services between Liverpool and Manchester Airport has not occurred. I noticed this week there are some strange service frequencies on that Northern Liverpool to Manchester Airport route which suggest it has botched/amended at the last minute.
It's been reduced to a three-hourly frequency, i.e. one unit diagram. Not ideal - but unlike cancelling a stopper everywhere will still have a train, even if slower.
Not botched, just amended - there is a very high level of sickness within the driver grade.
Engineering works between Clapham Jun and London Waterloo means most of the lines are closed between the two but at least 2 lines are open so some services can run through.
So is rhe engineering works greater today because they Tofts they are not running a train to Haslemere but last Thursday they were. Obviously the train to Haslemere stops at Clapham Junction.
Looks like the Haslemere services only ran last Thursday from around 1100 onwards when you look at real time trains along with more trains on other routes. The rest of the week looks very similar to today.
The Haslemere trains are running today. So maybe it was related to the engineering works on that Saturday.
No surprises here, the Hounslow Loop is always the one that gets done in with restrictions. The Twickenham peaks have been on and off since the start of Lockdown 1 iirc.
There has been a Northern 195 on the exam line at York this week. Have they been doing training runs on the York to Scarborough line?
Once lockdown is over I suspect that the new Northern service between York and Scarbados will be very well patronised this summer especially as it looks as though foreign travel will be off limits.
York - Scarbs Northern service introduction is further delayed. No idea when it will start, if ever.
That must have been 6 car TPE 185s. So if no Northern service will TPE have the extra summer trains between York and Scarborough this year? Would be embarrassing to see 68+mk5s jammed full.
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As I understand it, the Mk5 sleepers are similar to conventional LHCS, in that each coach has Dellner couplers that enable changes in formation.
Still running but a big gap in the middle of the day between 0830 and 1429 when the service is limited to Redhill starters.
They were running to Gatwick until a few weeks back when they had a track defect on the Down Fast and were curtailed to Redhill and have stayed there since. I walk the dog near NDL at Reigate and these services are pretty empty currently but when the college goes back next week that will all change again so should full service back in morning and afternoon.
