Commuters at Piccadilly Station this morning were fed up with more rail disruption — which they say happens ‘every week’.
Today, Avanti West Coast — the rail operator that runs trains from Manchester to London — cut services to just one per hour, down from the usual every 20 minutes. The limited timetable will be in place 'until further notice' the rail operator said.
It has been brought in after train drivers decided to pull their ‘goodwill’, which is a practice whereby they work on off-days and over contracted hours on a voluntary basis. In effect, the railways rely on ‘goodwill’ to operate — so its withdrawal has played havoc with schedules.
