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From the government website:
"To make sure our railways stay open, we are providing train operators on franchises let by my department the opportunity to temporarily transition onto Emergency Measures Agreements.
These agreements will suspend the normal financial mechanisms of franchise...
A 2019 opening is pretty much dead in the water by the look of things.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/crossrail-latest-transport-boss-reveals-new-line-has-no-chance-of-opening-this-year-and-he-has-no-a4053976.html
A few weeks ago I was on a TL service due to go through the core that was accidentally sent into P3 (one of the terminating platforms). The driver admitted that 'due to a signalling error' the service was to be terminated there. And then they mess up an SE service today. Not impressive.
Another service went down the wrong road at Blackfriars N.Bound this morning:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/W02891/2019/01/16/advanced
Guessing it was sent into P2 in error - they had to reverse back and reset. It's worrying how frequently this seems to be happening.
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