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Christmas/New Year public transport 2015

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(Summary - there are some exceptions)

 

up to 23rd December - normal

Christmas Eve, 24th December - Saturday timetable, early finish

Christmas Day, 25th December - No service

Boxing Day, 26th December - Skeleton daytime network

Sunday 27th December -Sunday timetable with some minor amendments

Bank Holiday Monday 28th December - Sunday timetable with some minor amendments

Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th December - Saturday timetable

New Years Eve, Thursday 31st December - Saturday timetable, early finish

New Years Day, Friday 1st January - skeleton daytime network

Saturday 2nd January - Normal service resumes

 

The above information and the timetables for Boxing Day and New Years Day can be found at http://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com.

Details of last departures on Christmas Eve and New years Eve are on (or will be on) individual operators websites - http://www.stagecoachbus.com/sheffield , http://www.firstgroup.com/south-yorkshire , http://www.tmtravel.co.uk

 

TRAMS

Up to 23rd December - normal service

Christmas Eve - Saturday timetable, early finish

Christmas Day - no service

Boxing Day - Special service in operation.

27th December - Normal Sunday service

28th-30th December - Saturday timetable

New Years Eve - Saturday timetable, early finish

New Years Day - Special service in operation.

 

A PDF of all the Christmas timetable information can be downloaded from http://www.supertram.com

 

TRAINS

Early finish Christmas Eve and New Years Eve

No Service Christmas Day or Boxing Day

Normal service with some amendments all other days.

Note engineering work may be closing some lines over the holiday period.

Check http://www.nationalrail.co.uk for details.

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I don't understand why there is so much disruption. Only Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day are bank holidays so why so much disruption on the other days?

When I was working we had to provide services 24 hours 365 days a year. Only those three days were bank holidays and paid accordingly.

When you work in any public service you accept that you have to work unsocial hours including Christmas. So why doesn't this apply to vital transport services?

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I don't understand why there is so much disruption. Only Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day are bank holidays so why so much disruption on the other days?

When I was working we had to provide services 24 hours 365 days a year. Only those three days were bank holidays and paid accordingly.

When you work in any public service you accept that you have to work unsocial hours including Christmas. So why doesn't this apply to vital transport services?

 

The level of service is altered to reflect the level of demand.

 

Running all the extra commuter buses that run on a normal weekday when everyone is off work is a recipe for losing money!

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I don't understand why there is so much disruption. Only Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day are bank holidays so why so much disruption on the other days?

When I was working we had to provide services 24 hours 365 days a year. Only those three days were bank holidays and paid accordingly.

When you work in any public service you accept that you have to work unsocial hours including Christmas. So why doesn't this apply to vital transport services?

 

cos this is backward Britain... Any other country in Europe runs Sunday service on the bank hols and normal service on the other days. But they have such outdated notions as public transport being to provide a service, not to line the shareholders' pockets... it'll never catch on...

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The level of service is altered to reflect the level of demand.

 

Running all the extra commuter buses that run on a normal weekday when everyone is off work is a recipe for losing money!

 

Pretty sure this doesn't explain why only a skeleton service is operating on Saturday 26th... And dunno about you guys but some of us are working as normal between the Tuesday after Christmas and New Year's Eve - so why aren't the buses?

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Pretty sure this doesn't explain why only a skeleton service is operating on Saturday 26th... And dunno about you guys but some of us are working as normal between the Tuesday after Christmas and New Year's Eve - so why aren't the buses?

 

A skeleton bus service operates on Boxing Day because that is all the taxpayer is prepared to fund (although funny how the trams run commercially without subsidy and the buses don't...).

 

The only people travelling on Boxing Day really are those going to the sales at Meadowhall and those going to the football, the service provided is enough to satisfy that demand.

 

Not many people work between Christmas and New Year, most use their leave up and have that week off. The Saturday level of service is good enough to cope with the reduced demand.

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Quite a few people in the hospitals etc will be working over the new year

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Running all the extra commuter buses that run on a normal weekday when everyone is off work

 

Obviously a new and hitherto unknown meaning of the word 'everyone'... it's a normal working day, most people are at work (and yes I know I'm not, before you say it!)

 

is a recipe for losing money!

 

diddums. who gives an airborne act of copulation if the shareholders lose a few pence? Shouldn't be trying to profit from essential public services in the first place

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Thanks, Andy. What time is the early finish on Chrismaas Eve?

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Thanks, Andy. What time is the early finish on Chrismaas Eve?

 

Around 6-7pm.

 

Specific routes are listed on the individual operators' websites.

Edited by Andy C

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