Of course, the question as to why there are no trains over this period is a differnet thing entirely. The fact is that trains are not regarded as infrastructure, not regarded as an essential service. Government here is in the business of abdication of responsibility, so trains are run for profit and they don't run when profit is hard to realise. keep to the Fen Causeway
What's farcical here is the lack of responsibility for this. In the wonderful free market privatised railway no one is responsible for anything, least of all a NuLab government which promised renationalisation, or a civil service which doesn't like trains much.
Bad PR for rail is good news for Whitehall, if only because of default passive aggression.
Travellers barely count in this soap opera.
