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[At this rate they'll probably announce them up the evening before they start.]

That's ridiculous
They should give plenty of notice to passengers so people are aware the changes are going ahead in just under 2 weeks time and have time to plan and change there journeys. And there should also have notices onboard including the ones people can take with them.

At this rate they'll probably announce them up the evening before they start.

Bit of a daft comment.

The last few changes have been announced 9 days before, which in all fairness is plenty of time. I'd expect it this Friday.

I know... but he could of at least reworded it instead of copy and paste 🙄

I mean, they did. It's not an identical message...

WN 6787 was just seen in lye so gone on the map see what it's doing and it seems to be following the PN 7 route Dudley to Wollaston and now going back towards Dudley NIS that was ( 7 route )
Any ideas why thank you in advance

Rumour has it the 7 is moving to Wolves

I wonder what's replacing the 81 and Pn5. Surprised they don't extend the WN4 down to Dudley

Why on Earth would they do that?

There never is on a Sunday evening. The xx13 always does all stations

There's no international shuttles on a Sunday at all. There's a couple one way BHI-BHM but that's only to collect stabled units.

Just saw 6111 at Five Ways displaying 12E Oldbury with part route below, but the Oldbury terminators always show 12 Oldbury via Bearwood  ???

West Brom and Snett also have different databases that are set up differently

Metro decker taken out of service on x20 after taking the tree reflector off in Meriden. Shame the driver got too close to trees

If you could actually drive a bus, you may be able to comment. You have no idea what its like.

6101-6148 & 6701-6757 - ZF
Everything else - Voith

Rest day working certainly used to have to be sanctioned by the relevant union.

Times have changed I guess. The union get very little say.

On the railway quite of lot of weekend work especially Sunday is not rostered so to speak, it relies on crews working some of their rest days as they have more rest days than the minimum requirement.

If the unions have a gripe with the management, the first thing they do is to instruct their members not to do any rest day working, so there are no crews to work those services and therefore they are cancelled.

Some of the TOCs are trying to get an agreement that weekends are normal rostered days, but rest day working is paid more than normal working, so the unions don't want that to occur. 

So to put in bluntly - the rail unions don't care about the giving the rails users (who ultimately pay their wages) a good service 7 days a week so eventually there won't be any requirement for rest day working or normal rostered working as the unions will have forced the rail users to find another way to travel so they won't have a job.

P.S. I am a member of a TU (but nothing to do with transport).

As a railway employee, that isn't the case anymore. Weekend working is rostered on both Saturdays and Sundays.

I would guess failure to agree rest day working with the unions.

Why would it involve the union?

Yeah, I can't quite believe they're still like that. I see them on a daily basis pooting about.

(I think they're coming out of Wigston now though, not Tamworth).

Nope. Still Tamworth.

435 | WN81

some of that platinums must have them as drivers can open the doors without pressing them button

A near 9 year old topic. For that comment. Really!??

Is that the picture on Facebook, is that driver going to keep his job ?

Why does that matter to you?