That figure stood at 7.6% a month ago. Monday 16 January 2023. "In the meantime, please check National Rail Enquiries before you set off on your journey as delays will continue today.". "He's trying to keep away from people and so is a bit loathe to seek help from staff in person. Emilia Fox returned. The US is one of only two countries in the 38-member Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development without a national law guaranteeing paid sick leave for its workers. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. He said that employing more drivers would "cost money" and "would go into their profit margins". The strikes, planned for 5, 7 and 9 November, had been called in a dispute over pay and conditions. It said the main reason was drivers suddenly stopped volunteering to work on their rest days. Station staff were on hand, trying to help passengers with queries. "Delay repay is about 6. 2023 BBC. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? BBC Summary A rail strike by 40,000 RMT union members has caused four in five trains to be cancelled today as many people return to work after the Christmas break The 48-hour strike is the. Read about our approach to external linking. Read about our approach to external linking. It is offering customers refunds or fee-free re-booking. By Adriana Elgueta. This led to improvements in punctuality and reliability. Passengers are being warned of extensive disruption to train services on Saturday despite a series of strikes by railway workers being called off. "Here Biden is supposed to be this super pro-labour president and Amtrak Joe and everything like that," he said, referring to a nickname given to the president for his fondness of riding the national passenger rail. At the UK busiest station, Waterloo, 76% of trains arrived on time; Victoria had 72% arrive on time, London Bridge had 62%, Liverpool Street had 86% and Clapham Junction 60%. Vet Jenna Blackburn's usual commute is Chester to Manchester, changing at Warrington, often on Northern. President Macron's reform programme faces a make-or-break moment, as French unions stage a day of mass strikes and protests on Thursday against his plans to push back the age of . Hull Trains said its services would resume as normal following "thorough checks by Hitachi" on its fleet of Class 800 series trains. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Dozens of Class 800s are stacked up waiting to be checked at Hitachi's Swansea depot, Hitachi 800 trains entered service in 2017. "We have strict performance targets that incentivise the operator, Arriva Rail London, to run punctual services with minimal cancellations and to work closely with Network Rail to ensure any track, signalling and infrastructure problems are rectified promptly to minimise delays for our customers.". This has resulted in trainees taking longer to qualify. "At least four times this year. Network Rail said it's repairing the line after a fire on the route between Peterborough and London King's Cross. "It's important to point out that the affected trains are relatively new, in which case the manufacturers should foot the bill for any repairs, not passengers or taxpayers.". Read about our approach to external linking. VideoChess gets a risqu makeover, The Nigerian influencers paid to manipulate your vote. She says the situation is "being handled in the worst way" and that she "got less than 30 minutes' notice by email" of the cancellations, by which time she was already at the train station. It said there could be short-notice cancellations. "However, lockdowns and the Covid-19 crisis made training very difficult, if not impossible. Hitachi said: "Safety is our number one priority and as a precaution, the decision was taken to halt the entry into service of our intercity fleets pending inspection. They involved staff at Network Rail, which employs signalling workers across England, Scotland and Wales, as well as workers at 14 train companies. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. London Waterloo had 388,000 planned rail and Tube stops on services to and from the station in 2022; in 2021 it was 395,00 and in 2019 that number was 477,000. Read about our approach to external linking. ", "Financially it's a lot," she said. When she didn't have paid sick leave, she ended up with no vacation and had to take unpaid days to care for her daughter, straining her finances. It acknowledged that the national dispute involving three rail unions had caused severe disruption and on cancellations it said "the industry is working hard to cope with an unprecedented convergence of issues". Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, LNER, Scotrail and West Midlands Railway have all reported cancellations. He added there were about 1,000 carriages to deal with, so it would be "quite a considerable job". CrossCountry is also warning of train crew shortages and disruption. He wrote: "So this is what my beard grows like. Overall, 75 of the 100 best-performing busy stations in the UK are in the capital, and London Overground is one of the top three most punctual railway lines, rail tracker website On Time Trains found. "I found that devastating," she said, adding that a national law now looks "impossible". More than two dozen services leaving from London King's Cross and Euston stations were. It had planned to take strike action at five train firms including Avanti West Coast and West Midlands Trains. It added that the renewal of this part of the network should reduce the drainage and flooding problems that can lead to signalling and power failures, the root cause of many train cancellations. Like roughly 30 million other Americans, the 45-year-old railroad worker doesn't have any paid sick leave and he didn't want to get punished for taking time off. While he said he believed people should be able to take time off if sick, "the one-size-fits-all approach does not work on issues, especially on paid leave". It has removed all peak restrictions over Christmas, to try to spread out demand. What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? Services to parts of Shropshire and Staffordshire also face problems problems due to the damage. "You're coming to work to make money and you can spend more than your day's wage to get home.". Same in the opposite direction. The cancellations were due to the heat affecting the safety of steel railway tracks, which can buckle when too hot. Mr Shoveller said on Monday there will be "limited ability" to change the strike timetable. This year I've had to spend 160 one day just to get here because it was a busy day for taxis so it was 160 here and back. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. By Hugh Schofield. 12:36 Lauren Cole-Lomas All the trains cancelled from Woking between 12:30pm and 1:30pm 12:34 to Portsmouth Harbour - Cancelled 12:44 to London Waterloo - Cancelled 12:46 to Exeter St. In 2020, Congress passed a temporary law requiring most companies to offer two weeks of paid sick leave to staff forced to quarantine due to Covid-19. Passengers at King's Cross station faced further disruption on Wednesday. The Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train companies, said: "We totally reject any suggestion that the replacement of franchises with contracts during the pandemic is adversely affecting performance.". Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Chess gets a risqu makeover. TransPennine has also come under the spotlight for poor services, although it insists cancellation numbers have been reducing. Mr Montgomery's explanation was that Covid directly caused a backlog of driver training, which can take up to 18 months, and staff sickness levels are high. But it said it expected the disruption will continue to have "a significant impact" on services between Newcastle and York for the rest of the day. Trains are being cancelled and rail services disrupted after the UK recorded its hottest day on record. What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? 'One by one they have all been testing positive', ScotRail cancels 118 services as Covid spikes, Zelensky says fatal crash was consequence of war, New Zealand PM Ardern to step down next month, Arizona town with no water using rain to flush toilets. CrossCountry said its services between Nottingham (pictured) and Cardiff had been particularly affected, Several trains in a row have been cancelled on a number of days, Aslef said a lot of train companies did not employ enough drivers. "It's added between an hour and two hours on my journey as you end up changing twice on the way.". A spokesperson for Aslef said in relation to CrossCountry: "I'm afraid they don't really employ enough drivers to deliver the services they promise passengers they will run. TransPennine Express said on Saturday afternoon that it would be able to reintroduce some trains into service following safety checks. Author and rail historian Christian Wolmar says despite a stronger "general feeling of rail malaise" in the north of England, with trains statistically worse performing, often the impact of disruption in the capital was greater. Follow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators across the UK, said its members had reported that 8.7% of their staff were off sick due to all causes including Covid. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. He added that calling off the latest ones has given negotiations between unions and employers a "better chance of success". Passengers await further information at St Pancras station. BBC's EastEnders and Waterloo Road have been cancelled tonight, Tuesday January 17, as the channel is forced to reschedule due to airing a football match. Though the increase may sound small, train operators only have limited contingencies for absences before they have to start cancelling services. Now, most train operators are paid on a performance-related fixed fee basis, and it is the government, that bears the financial risk - and holds the purse strings. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. Avanti West Coast is another operator experiencing staff shortages and warning of short-notice cancellations. Lorraine McConnon was due to take a train from Aberdeen to London King's Cross this morning. On some days, numerous trains in a row have been cancelled. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Govia Thameslink, which operates the Thameslink, Great Northern and Southern franchises, said it may also have to cancel services at short notice due to high numbers of staff off sick with Covid and other seasonal illnesses. The affected routes are between London Kings Cross and Leeds, and London Kings Cross and Lincoln. BBC Both EastEnders at 7.30pm and. The walkout was averted only after President Joe Biden and Congress intervened, forcing rail workers to accept the terms of a new contract. There is expected to be a major impact across the network, with only a fifth of services due to run between 07:30 and 18:30 GMT on Saturday. Avanti West Coast between London Euston and Manchester for customers with an open ticket, TransPennine Express between Manchester, Leeds and York, East Midlands Railway between London St Pancras International and Sheffield, Northern services between Sheffield, Leeds and York and via any other "reasonable" route, Thameslink services between London, Stevenage and Peterborough, Avanti West Coast trains between Birmingham New Street and London Euston, London Northwestern Railway trains between Birmingham New Street and London Euston, West Midlands Railway trains between Hereford/Worcester and Birmingham New Street, The Class 800 is electric - but almost half have a diesel engine enabling them to operate on lines that have not been electrified, Formal orders for the trains were made in 2012 and 2013 at a cost of around 5.7bn for a 27.5 year programme, including maintenance, The Class 800 began regular service for Great Western Railway in October 2017 - but an embarrassing start saw air conditioning units, In May 2019, they began service on the East Coast Main Line, with operator LNER branding the train Azuma - or "east" in Japanese, They were hailed by operators as helping to increase capacity and reduce journey times, The trains were assembled at Hitachi's plant in Newton Aycliffe in County Durham. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. He told BBC business correspondent Katy Austin that while body shell cracking would not "cause the trains to crash or disintegrate or anything like that", he said it is a "serious point" that requires action because if metal fatiguing is allowed to continue, the "cracks will spread, and the body shell strength will be weakened". Judging by reservations, it expects Thursday to be the busiest day of the week. The RDG said the pandemic has had a long-term impact on services by reducing the number of drivers and other staff who could be trained as well as increasing staff absences. However, the suspension is a significant development, as it is the first time in the RMT's long-running dispute that a strike has been called off to make further talks easier. ScotRail will only run a skeleton service on Saturday, with the rail operator warning of significant disruption to its services. 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It added that while it was true that the Department for Transport now pays train operators a fee to run train services, that payment was performance-related. Great Western Railway said it was seeing increasing absence rates, and some disruption of its services. Read about our approach to external linking. "At a moment when we were celebrating all these front-line workers, who were keeping the economy going at the risk of their own health, that we couldn't include paid sick days as a requirement in our Covid relief package - it was just shocking.". The company said cracks were detected on "more than one" Hitachi 800 train, so all 93 in its fleet are being inspected as a "precaution". These aren't the only operators with staff problems. When taken with on-the-day cancellations, this has seen total. Mr Wolmar believes these contracts have resulted in less effort from managers to run a good service, and high sickness levels among staff who have gone over two years without a pay rise, are "really an expression of employee dissatisfaction". Read about our approach to external linking. Repair work is ongoing across the UK's rail network, and Network Rail said it has launched a new taskforce to investigate how the railway can become more resilient in the wake of the heatwave. The persistent disruption in recent months has prompted outcry from commuters, leisure travellers, politicians and business groups, particularly in the North of England. Transport for London said it tried to minimise delays but circumstances were often outside of its control. For a moment, during the pandemic, it seemed like a national policy might emerge. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. It said there could be short-notice cancellations. GWR passengers can use their tickets on the following services: Roger Ford, industry and technology editor at the magazine Modern Railways, said the problem is "with the weld cracking underneath [the train's] body shell" which he explained led to about 180 trains being taken out of service on Saturday morning for inspection. It follows severe travel disruption on Tuesday, with most journeys scrapped through the Met Office's extreme heat zone, which covered much of central, northern, and south-east England. A spokesperson for LNER said services were being reduced as a result of an increase in the number of our staff self-isolating due to Covid. It offered a pay rise, an additional personal day and a few other benefits - but no paid sick leave. At Birmingham New . Infrastructure problems play a role too. "We understand the frustration caused and we would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused to passengers and operators.". She had planned to travel from there to Gatwick Airport for an overnight stay before a flight to France tomorrow. DISRUPTION: Monday 05 DecemberSorry, we have a fair few cancellations tomorrow due to driver shortages. At the UK busiest station, Waterloo, 76% of trains arrived on time; Victoria had 72% arrive on time, London Bridge had 62%, Liverpool Street had 86% and Clapham Junction 60%. Rosters for drivers are typically agreed a week in advance, and so the "short notice cancellation" of the strikes "means that train driver availability will inevitably be very challenging and rely primarily on volunteers", the RDG added. Read about our approach to external linking. Angie Doll, chief operating officer of GTR, said performance over the past year had been affected by the impact of Covid, short-term sickness, severe weather and increasing trespass incidents. In the past week 5.2% of trains were cancelled, versus an average of 2.9%, according to the Rail Delivery Group. It said staff were also taking time off after receiving booster jabs. He said: "London is the most rail-dependent city in the country and, while it has seen the most rail improvements in last 10 years, residents suffer disproportionately when things go wrong.". In recent weeks, demands for paid sick leave from rail workers like Gabe pushed the US to the brink of its first national rail strike in 30 years. By Tom Espiner, Katy Austin and Noor Nanji, Mick Lynch (pictured left) said the threat of industrial action had "made the rail employers see sense", When dogs in Alaska wait for the bus Video, ScotRail will only run a skeleton service on Saturday. All high-speed Great Western Railway services between London, Bristol, Cardiff and Penzance have been cancelled and customers are advised not to attempt to travel today. 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Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? Govia Thameslink, which operates the Thameslink, Great Northern and Southern franchises, said it may also have to cancel services at short notice due to high numbers of staff off sick with Covid and other seasonal illnesses. Great Western Railway, Hull Trains, London North Eastern Railway and TransPennine Express trains of the Hitachi 800 model were taken out of service for safety inspections. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Chess gets a risqu makeover. 21:17, 14 JAN 2023 Full list of new series on ITV, BBC and Channel 4 this week (Image: Shared Content Unit) Telly lovers are in for a treat this week as a number of popular programmes return with. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? She doesn't drive and on strike days there were no trains running. Ms Blackburn said a taxi home from Warrington to Chester usually costs between 30 and 40, depending on the time. "We have always wanted to secure a negotiated settlement and that is what we will continue to push for in this next phase of intensive talks. Rail services across the country are being cancelled in the run-up to Christmas as rising numbers of staff fall ill with Covid. Network Rail continues to advise passengers to check before they travel, and to only travel by rail if absolutely necessary on Saturday and Monday. But on strike days taxi prices are higher. High-speed trains withdrawn over crack fears, High-speed train delayed on first journey, Zelensky says fatal crash was consequence of war, New Zealand PM Ardern to step down next month, Mass strikes in France bid to halt pension age rise. In total, 520,853 services were scheduled across Great Britain between 16 October and 12 November, 15% lower than the same time in 2019. However it urged customers to check for late-notice changes, saying as cases continue to rise, some short notice alterations may be required throughout the festive period. Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. It comes after Tuesday's record-breaking temperatures above 40C, which caused damage to overhead electric lines and railway tracks. That's always been their attitude. The BBC approached Network Rail for comment. "Now they're just squeezing us so hard, like blood out of a turnip. 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