SMART, like other user groups received the following e-mail from David Stopher at metro this afternoon, November 12 2009
Hi All
Here are the detailed train service arrangements for the West Yorkshire area over the Christmas and New Year holiday period 2009/10 which you may find useful. I hope I’ve picked it all up right!
Northern local services will operate normally, apart from early closedowns on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve when trains will operate until approximately 2000 and will then start to run down. Few late evening trains after 2200 will run. First TransPennine Express will operate similarly with some evening trains terminating short of advertised destination. No rail services will operate on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. On New Year’s Day there will be some early morning Northern cancellations before 0700 after which the normal weekday service will operate.
Full details of Northern and First TransPennine Express alterations throughout the period are included including cancelled and amended trains, last and first trains operated on each route. Details of other long distance operators’ altered trains are not included. Please refer to each operator’s web site for full timetables for each day. The new East Coast operator will be operating special timetables throughout the holiday period with reduced frequencies on some days. NXEC will be handing over operation to DfT Directly Operated Railways from midnight tonight. First TransPennine Express, CrossCountry and East Midlands Trains’ services will be subject to alteration throughout the period. For the first time First TransPennine Express will not be operating late evening and overnight trains on New Year’s Eve/ New Year’s Day.
There will be some engineering works affecting local train services over the weekend of 2/3 January 2010 with widespread disruption on the Caldervale Line between Leeds and Bradford Interchange and on the Hallam and Penistone Lines.
A new rail timetable will be introduced on Sunday 13 December 2009. Timetables for each route are now available on the Metro web at http://www.wymetro.com/TrainTravel/traintimetables/ The Network book will follow shortly. Hard copies will be available by the end of November.
David Stopher
Rail Services Leader Metro (West Yorkshire PTE)