{"id":2466,"date":"2022-09-09T21:12:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T20:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2022-09-09T21:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T20:12:29","slug":"cancelled-due-to-a-short-notice-change-to-the-timetable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cancelled due to a short-notice change to the timetable.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Cancelled due to a short-notice change to the timetable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a new explanation for cancelled trains, used both in passenger announcements on stations and in online information such as Journeycheck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just TPE who are using this excuse. All the train operating companies are using it, which indicates that it\u2019s not an initiative by TPE and its use is down to a decision either by the Department for Transport or the Rail Delivery Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it sounds meaningless, then it probably is. All they are saying is <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cit\u2019s cancelled because it\u2019s cancelled.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately we can translate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIt\u2019s cancelled because of staff shortages.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cancelled due to a short-notice change to the timetable.&#8221; This is a new explanation for cancelled trains, used both in passenger announcements on stations and in online information such as Journeycheck. It\u2019s not just TPE who are using this excuse. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}