Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. More than 90,000 tested positive for Covid in the UK on Monday, but the true number is thought to be much higher. In 2022, for the whole city, there were nearly 25 million scheduled rail and Tube stops in total (not including the Elizabeth line). It's hard to know whether the low passenger numbers are down to the restrictions on indoor gatherings - or potential passengers heeding warnings to stay away. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. When he finally scheduled an appointment, the doctor told him he had a gut infection. That figure stood at 7.6% a month ago. 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. West Midlands Railway services are among those affected. Services on the East Coast Main Line, which connects London and Edinburgh, were disrupted after a fire on the track near Sandy in Bedfordshire. 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. Network Rail warned that services. Two arrested after cable thefts cause travel disruption News 2d Steam and diesel trains run for celebration Dorset 4d Rail cuts will isolate disabled, charity warns Gloucestershire 5d Train. Newly released data from the Office of Road and Rail shows 3.8% of trains in Great Britain have been cancelled in the year up to 12 November - or one in every 26. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The outcome has outraged thousands of workers who had hoped for more support from a political party and a president who had campaigned on the promise of passing national sick leave and supporting unions. South Western Railway said it had only seen a small number of alterations this week, but was closely monitoring the impact of the new Omicron variant on staff availability. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? But he said no president, no matter how labour friendly, would be willing to risk an economically damaging strike over sick pay. 1 billion (November estimate) 1.2 billion. Train drivers at nine rail companies have announced a new strike in August as a dispute causing travel chaos across the country deepens. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. Read about our approach to external linking. Only 11 of its routes will remain open. Aslef announced its members will walk out on Saturday, 13. 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It said it was working as "quickly and safely as possible" to investigate the issue with the remainder of the fleets. Staff in green blazers and high visibility jackets almost outnumber those trying to travel. Passengers will be hoping this change ushers in more reliability. It said that when the works were completed later this year, this should "vastly improve the reliability of service for customers on both the London Overground and the Bakerloo line". "On a semi-regular basis I'm getting home at nine o'clock at night," she added. Two of every five London trains disrupted in 2022. She said the operator had a plan in place to make improvements, and was working with Network Rail to improve reliability. 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. In the past week 5.2% of trains were cancelled, versus an average of 2.9%, according to the Rail Delivery Group. CrossCountry has apologised for its cancellations over. Passenger numbers are currently only around 80% of pre-Covid levels - although they have been higher at some points recently. LNER is one of the train companies forced to cancel services, When dogs in Alaska wait for the bus Video, ScotRail reported more than a hundred cancellations, German police deny Greta's detainment was staged, Santos denies taking money from dying dog GoFundMe, Iran man who beheaded wife jailed for eight years, Mafia boss's second hideout found behind wardrobe, Maximum two drinks a week, Canada guidance advises, US town with no water using rain to flush toilets, Celebrities who say their children will get no inheritance, Heathrow beefs up security over cannabis arrests. ", "Financially it's a lot," she said. Read about our approach to external linking. On Sunday, train drivers in Aslef stopped working overtime at LNER, after a recent vote. Avanti has come in for particular criticism for severe disruption in July, and then slashing its timetable in August. BBC News reporter Harry Low at London Paddington. In Scotland, ScotRail reported more than a hundred cancellations on Monday. "I won't be fully relaxed until we're in the stadium," said Mr Ellis. Rob James says his 84-year-old father only found out about the train cancellations once he'd arrived at London King's Cross to board a train to Inverness to visit him. Some were trying to use tickets that were originally for Monday or Tuesday, only to find that they couldn't travel as expected today either. He added there were about 1,000 carriages to deal with, so it would be "quite a considerable job". The National Railway Labor Conference, the organisation representing the freight rail firms in the labour negotiations, argued that rail workers have ample personal and holiday leave, which can be used in the event of illness, as well as the ability to take unpaid time off. The picture at Leeds station was better, with 61% arriving on time. Though the increase may sound small, train operators only have limited contingencies for absences before they have to start cancelling services. What would be affected if a rail strike happens? 2023 BBC. Flooding on the road to Nether Heyford from Upper Heyford Northamptonshire in April. "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. 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. Added to this, reliance on drivers agreeing to work on days off - which has been common in the industry for decades - has left some operators exposed during a period of strained industrial relations. "Paid sick leave at the national level is not even part of the conversation at this point," he said, adding that the rail contract otherwise is "very good for workers". "Some of it is actually downright poor management," he said. Railway speed restrictions were brought in across most of England and Wales, with reports of buckled tracks and overheard wire systems failing on Monday. It said the main reason was drivers suddenly stopped volunteering to work on their rest days. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Chelmsford City Council's deputy leader . 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. Another passenger described the Nottingham to Cardiff service as "shocking". Passengers are being warned of extensive disruption to train services on Saturday despite a series of strikes by railway workers being called off. The persistent disruption in recent months has prompted outcry from commuters, leisure travellers, politicians and business groups, particularly in the North of England. CrossCountry is also warning of train crew shortages and disruption. 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. They involved staff at Network Rail, which employs signalling workers across England, Scotland and Wales, as well as workers at 14 train companies. We are always looking at ways to minimise these incidents whenever we can. "Only twice has the train run normally. 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