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Title: New contracts for Avanti and Cross Country Post by: grahame on September 19, 2023, 16:20:04 From The BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-66851790)
Quote Rail firms Avanti West Coast and CrossCountry have been awarded new contract renewals, the Department for Transport has announced. Transport Secretary Mark Harper said Avanti West Coast was "back on track" after struggling with reliability. The proportion of its trains cancelled had been cut to "as low as 1.1% over the past year", the department said. However, figures show the equivalent of 6.8% of CrossCountry services were cancelled between April and June. My local comparison is (always!) with Melksham where the cancellation rate is 6% over the last six months, and 9% over the past 12 week, with the rail industry pretending that cancellation made well ahead because of industrial action aren't cancellations at all. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |