CrossCountry December 2017 Timetable Consultation (Read 733 times)

[nikoli]

Just in case people are interested, CrossCountry Trains have launched a public consultation for their December 2017 timetable which aims to address some of the overcrowding issues on their services, particularly between Newcastle and Bristol. Aside from the extra Voyager arranged as part of their Direct Award they won't be getting any additional rolling stoke, but using what they have more efficiently, particularly their HSTs.

It's 57 pages long but this is most of the stuff that's relevant to South Yorkshire:

> Introduction of additional Leeds-Wakefield Westgate-Sheffield peak services to provide an extra 1000 seats per day (until 2019 as the path is expected to be used by Northern)
> Increased utilisation of HSTs during the week on the central core

Specific South Yorkshire Peak Train Changes
> 0600 Birmingham N St to Glasgow will be increased from 5 car Voyager to 9 car to provide 200 additional seats into Leeds
> 0640 York to Plymouth will now start from Newcastle and operate as a HST, providing 195 additional seats
> 0645 Newcastle to Plymouth will now operate as a HST, providing 257 additional seats
> 0703 Birmingham N St to Edinburgh will be reduced from 8 cars to 4, reducing capacity by 200 seats
> New Service 0719 Derby to Leeds operated as a 4 car Voyager, providing 200 extra seats
> 1325 Plymouth to Edinburgh will operate as a HST, providing 195 additional seats into Leeds
> 1345 Reading to Newcastle will be increased to a 5 car Voyager, providing 62 extra seats between Sheffield and Doncaster
> 1425 Plymouth to Edinburgh will operate as a HST, providing 257 additional seats between Derby, Chesterfield, Sheffield and Leeds
> 1500 Glasgow to Bristol will be reduced from 5 cars to 4, reducing capacity by 62 seats
> New Service 1640 Leeds to Derby will be operated by a 4 car Voyager, providing 200 extra seats

The full changes can be found here: www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/about-us/future-timetable-consultation

Does look like Sheffield-Leeds corridor comes out of this quite well although at the expense of some of the 'extremities' on their network. If nothing else it would be good to have the extra peak service between Sheffield and Leeds.