Northern issues guide to travelling over Christmas and New Year... and the advice is basically don't bother
The largest train company in the north of England has issued a guide to travelling over Christmas and New Year and it makes for grim reading. as strikes, engineering works and the Christmas shutdown play havoc with the timetable.
Passengers are being advised to use the new 'Check My Timetable' feature on the Northern website to see the changes specific to their local station. It comes as members of Rail, Maritime and Transport union launched a fresh strike today as a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions remained deadlocked.
Trains started later than usual and will finish earlier, while some parts of the country had no services. Disruption will continue for the rest of the month because of an overtime ban by RMT members at 14 train operators.
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