Brits brace for new rail timetable

BBC News - Rail passengers lost 3.9m hours in 2018, Which? report says... No wonder the UK's productivity is dire...

Appalling...we must get this sorted! Delays cause much stress. https://lnkd.in/d2VhwjM

Period 1 (ending 27 April) was a record breaking period for GTR. Our PPM was 89.3% - comfortably our best ever beating the previous record set two periods earlier by 2%. This performance was underpinned by Southern setting a 5.5 year record at 91.7%. Our On Time performance at 76.8% was also a record. We made over 1 million station stops in the four week period with over three quarters of them on time - to the minute. This performance puts us as one of the most punctual operators in the UK (measured on an On Time MAA basis). Total cancellations (GTR and NR) were the lowest for over a year and total delay minutes were the lowest in the franchise. Also in the period we began the scheduled operation of our new 717s, extended Oyster and Contactless to Hertford North and continued to see improvements at Victoria and London Bridge. We know there is much , much more to do but THANK YOU to all colleagues, Network Rail and Partners for delivering this improvement for our customers. Next to come is our Summer Timetable which expands our weekday TL peak to 20 trains per hour through introduction of a half hourly Cambridge to Brighton service. There are 180 new and reinstated trains on Saturdays and 100 on Sundays as we move to an increasingly 7 day railway. #networkrail #gtr

The West Midlands region has been the fastest growing nationally for rail journeys over the past fifteen years. New timetables will be introduced by West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway on Sunday, 19 May. The changes will see additional direct services to new destinations across the region (many operating via New Street station) and increased capacities on some of the busiest services. #business #rail #westmidlands #birmingham

You should revolt. You shouldn't have to pay through the eye balls to get in to work. A Brighton to London season ticket is going to increase by ￡148 to ￡4,844. That's absurd! When will it all be too much for British commuters? I was travelling to and from London during the Southern strikes and it was unbearable. It's pretty grim when you're thrown out at Gatwick with thousands of people, none of who know when the next train will be. After that, they introduced the new timetable, and we all know how that went. Now, they want you to pay more? It's a joke, and a national shame that our Government allows train passengers to be rinsed for cash to support a failing model. Look locally instead. There's loads happening in Sussex. #commuting #railfares