TransPennine Express promises full timetable return in December

TransPennine Express (TPE) is remaining confident that the reintroduction of services in the December 2024 timetable switch will go as smoothly as possible.

TPE originally scaled back its timetable in December 2023 from 320 services to just under 300 a day as it struggled to get to grips with driver training and crew availability as well as a need to look at operational issues that had complicated service delivery.

However, since then, services have gradually returned to the previous levels with some services reinstated in June made possible in part because of rest-day working agreements with ASLEF and RMT being reinstated. The current rest-day working agreement is now in place until March 2025.