Every singular artery sealed including all lines into Scotland and Wales
Even Heathrow Express will not run notwithstanding London airfield being open
Little change from prior years notwithstanding extreme celebration domestic row
Football fans face 150-mile journeys to make vital Boxing Day fixtures
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Dan Bloom for MailOnline
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09:20 GMT, 24 Dec 2014
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Every singular vital artery on Britain’s railways will sojourn sealed on Boxing Day, withdrawal millions stranded or pulling them onto a roads.
No trains will run between England and Scotland or Wales on a East Coast, West Coast or Great Western mainlines – and a Midland, Cross Country and East Anglia lines will also sojourn shut.
The near-non-existent use has returned this year notwithstanding a extreme domestic conflict over a supposed Boxing Day shutdown dating behind to during slightest 2007.
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Leaving a city? Perish a suspicion – each cross-country artery will be sealed again on Boxing Day
Labour and Tories have regularly traded accusations over a miss of service, that affects football fans, families though cars and emporium workers in a Boxing Day sales.
Apart from airfield shuttles and Eurostar, customarily Chiltern, Scotrail, Southeastern and Southern will be regulating any trains on Dec 26.
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Even afterwards a services will be intensely singular and customarily call during vital stations.
Not even a Heathrow Express sight from London to a largest airfield will be running, notwithstanding terminals remaining open on Boxing Day.
Campaigners blamed a ‘blind spot’ in a set-up of private rail franchises that puts no requirement on firms to run services on Dec 26.
Bruce Williamson, orator for a newcomer organisation Railfuture, told MailOnline: ‘Things need to improve.
Reduced: Eurostar will be one of a few operators with trains regulating on Boxing Day, for another year
‘Even trains not regulating on Christmas Day is a comparatively new growth – we trust British Rail were regulating Christmas Day trains as recently as 1981.
‘We conclude it infrequently creates some-more clarity to extend Christmas engineering works to Boxing Day to give yourself a vital cube of time, though we’re job for some-more lines to be open subsequent year.
‘The problem is it’s a blind mark in a approach a Department for Transport runs a authorization agreement with a handling companies.
Jams: Drivers will be stranded or forced to take to a highway to strech family, sales and sports fixtures
‘They’re underneath no requirement to run on Boxing Day and it’s mostly a detriment personality given we don’t have outrageous numbers of people travelling.’
He added: ‘Personally I’m already down during my mother’s residence in Devon. we gathering given we didn’t wish to be stranded, and given I’m certain a trains will be positively rammed to a gills today’.
Despite a complaints Boxing Day is traditionally still compared to normal travelling days – so many firms are regulating a event to do engineering work.
London Bridge station, one of a largest in a capital, will see one of a many disruptive tools of a five-year ascent this week as partial of a £6billion Thameslink programme.
One organisation that will be worst-hit are football supporters – with 10 vital Premier League fixtures on Boxing Day involving some of a nation’s biggest clubs.
Tottenham Hotspur fans face a 100-mile trek to a 3pm kick-off opposite Leicester City while Aston Villa fans will have to ride 150 miles for their club’s pull opposite Swansea City.
Football Supporters’ Federation Malcolm Clarke told a Daily Mirror: ‘This is a significant emanate for a lot of fans.
‘Not usually divided fans – though open ride even home fans can find a 3 or 4 mile tour roughly impossible.
‘This is one of a biggest footballing days of a calendar. It is a contrition zero has changed.’
Similar disharmony in prior years stirred ride apportion Stephen Hammond to tell a Commons in Jan there was ‘no reason’ since lines though engineering works shouldn’t run.
While in antithesis Mr Hammond slammed a Labour supervision over Boxing Day line closures, observant they were ‘condemning sports fans and families perplexing to applaud a Christmas duration together to wretchedness on a clogged-up motorways.’
But he was sacked in July’s reshuffle and currently Labour indicted a Tories of hypocrisy.
Politics: The Boxing Day shutdown has been a theme of celebration domestic spats given during slightest 2007
Shadow ride secretary Michael Dugher told a Mirror: ‘They had 4 and a half years to do something about this, though a miss of movement shows they never unequivocally cared’.
A orator for a debate organisation Passenger Focus pronounced operators mostly had no choice though to tighten lines on Boxing Day.
‘This is zero new,’ he told MailOnline. ‘If a operators did confirm to run services on Boxing Day that’s customarily a duration when Network Rail wants to tighten a network down anyway for engineering work.
‘The people who are put during a waste are a convenience traveller, such as football fans, who wish to ride and come opposite a lot of engineering work. If we are a commuter Monday to Friday you’re reduction expected to confront that.
‘But we have been job for investment and alleviation and a still Christmas duration is a ideal time to do that. You have to go with a numbers, and Christmas is a traditionally still time’.
A Department for Transport orator said: ‘Deciding a turn of use on specific days is a matter for sight operators.
‘But we know passengers wish to ride on Boxing Day, and that’s since we have worked with a rail attention to safeguard there are singular services on some franchises on that day.
‘Network Rail and sight companies have ensured that a vast partial of a railway will sojourn open over a Christmas/New Year duration and choice routes are supposing where a lines are sealed for essential engineering work, and that these are communicated scrupulously to a public.’
TRAVEL WIPEOUT: FULL RUNDOWN OF RAIL SERVICES ON BOXING DAY
Train user Service on Boxing Day Abellio Greater Anglia No use solely on Stansted Express, that will run each 30 mins from 0625 to 2325 Arriva Trains Wales No use c2c (Essex) No use Chiltern Railways Service customarily between London Marylebone and Bicester North, that will run every 30 mins from 0815 to 2015 CrossCountry No use East Coast No use East Midlands Trains No use Eurostar A late start and afterwards a revised Sunday use First Great Western No use First Hull Trains No use First TransPennine Express No use Gatwick Express Trains will run each 30 mins from 0500 to 2300, job during London Victoria, Clapham Junction, East Croydon and Gatwick Airport Grand Central No use Great Northern No use Heathrow Connect No use Heathrow Express No use solely for a convey between terminals. London Underground will run trains to a airfield each 15 to 20 mins on Piccadilly Line starting during 0830 Island Line Trains No use London Midland No use London Overground No use Merseyrail No use Northern Rail No use ScotRail Reduced use from Glasgow to Ayr/Largs/Ardrossan/Gourock/Wemyss Bay, Newton/Neilston, East Kilbride/Kilmarnock/Girvan, Shotts, Croy and Anniesland. Reduced use also runs on these routes: Cumbernauld/Whifflet – Milngavie, Cumbernauld – Dalmuir, Helensburgh – Bathgate, Airdrie – Balloch, Larkhall – Partick, Motherwell – Dalmuir South West Trains No use Southeastern No use solely on High Speed 1, that will run to Ashford Int’l customarily from 0800 to 2000 Southern No use solely from 0800 to 2130 each hour between London and Brighton, and each 30 mins between London and Gatwick Airport, Sutton, and East Croydon around Clapham Jn Thameslink No use Virgin Trains No use
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