Triumph
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All the new crew and stock diagrams are now being released for the May TT, which may go down in history as the timetable change that never operated.
All the new crew and stock diagrams are now being released for the May TT, which may go down in history as the timetable change that never operated.
It will be very interesting to know, especially if the December 2020 timetable is implemented next May as they’ll be services that run at a reduced frequency during the Winter and some services that are normally run only during the SummerNot all - some TOCs have been unable to complete the crewing.
The May timetable will probably be loaded as live and then STP'd out so it can be initiated later, either in part or in whole when circumstances allow. And even then there will have to be an 8-12 week lag just to complete all the crewing.
It is the December timetable that is in real problems now as work on it by NR has effectively ceased. There is a meeting today to discuss whether May 2020 can run past December 2020 and the Dec 2020 Timetable can be held over (in the main) to become the May 2021 timetable.
I expect that, if this happens, it will be a summer timetable 'based on' the winter timetable so not an exact Dec 2020 clone.It will be very interesting to know, especially if the December 2020 timetable is implemented next May as they’ll be services that run at a reduced frequency during the Winter and some services that are normally run only during the Summer
I thought the summer-only trains (such few as there are) were planned into the December timetable - or is that no longer the case?It will be very interesting to know, especially if the December 2020 timetable is implemented next May as they’ll be services that run at a reduced frequency during the Winter and some services that are normally run only during the Summer
I’ve absolutely no ideaI thought the summer-only trains (such few as there are) were planned into the December timetable - or is that no longer the case?
Yeah....Who would be a timetabler at the moment?
Yeah....
Who would be a timetabler at the moment?
I'd expect May 20 to apply later in the year but perhaps only from September, obviously hopefully it will be earlier so we can at least have a 'summer'. Whether NR have the resources to implement a December 2020 change will be interesting.
The start of the May timetable surely depends on the withdrawal of the ‘stay at home’ message, and when people start going back to work, visiting friends, relatives, going on holiday etc.
December 20 won’t just be about NR resources, but about the whole train planning community, plus all the other things that have to happen for a new timetable where services are subject to major change - driver training being perhaps the best example.
Whatever happens come first day of the new timetable in May the base will be May 20. The timetable that runs from the start of May20 will likely be heavily amended via the Short Term Planning process until things get back to normal.