Rail passengers across Yorkshire urged to ‘check before you travel’ in December
Rail operator Northern has advised its customers to ‘Check Before You Travel’ in December and over the Christmas period due to planned engineering works and the potential for short notice cancellations.
Northern says customers planning to travel should check as close to their journey time as possible, as some previously planned services may not run or may operate at different times.
Journey planners will be updated this week on the Northern website. Network Rail has also announced engineering projects will affect services on various routes across the Northern network.
If Northern is forced to cancel services, it will look to provide rail replacement services for customers where possible.
Matt Rice, chief operating officer at Northern, said: “Across the rail network, the Christmas period is an opportunity for Network Rail to carry out engineering.
“For those wanting to travel over this time, we are asking them to check their journey as close to the day or travel as possible to see if these works will affect their journey.”
Northern currently employs more than 2,000 drivers and 1,400 conductors, enough to run its timetable.
Like most train operators, Northern relies on some rest-day working and overtime to cover training, sickness, and other unavailability.
Sundays are currently outside the working week for most conductors. Northern secured a separate rest-day working agreement for train drivers with the trade union ASLEF earlier this month.
