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TPE timetable reductions

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The Grauniad reports TPE cuts in services in December:

Rail passengers in the north have been warned of fewer services and potentially more crowded trains after TransPennine Express said it would cut its timetable further in December.

About 20 services a day between Leeds and Manchester will be taken out of the schedule as the firm seeks to “reset” its struggling operations.

Passengers will now have three trains an hour instead of four across its core intercity line at off-peak times, reducing overall seat numbers by 5%.
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Yep, dropping a quarter of the services..

Awkwardly for Manchester - that'll mean Vic going down to 2 trains an hour and Pic the same (excluding the class 2 stopper) - so neither station has the metro-like service of days gone by.. when Pic had 4 an hour, you didn't need to look at the timetable.
 
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This is being covered here:

TPE Plan for the future

TPE have now publicly published their plan for the future which can be viewed at https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/-/media/PDFs/TransPennine-Express-Our-Plan-For-the-Future.pdf There are many interesting nuggets and statistics in this document, and is very open and honest in it's approach. Let's...
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