British train operators are urging people to check timetables before they travel as train services have been reduced during the CCP virus lockdown.
Before the new lockdown began, the railway was operating at about 87 percent of pre-pandemic levels.
But following the introduction of new timetables, service levels will be reduced to approximately 72 percent of pre-pandemic levels.
Some services will be completely cut, while others will be operating on a reduced timetable.
The new timetables have been planned in coordination with the government so as to ensure key workers can get to work and social distancing can be maintained in train carriages.
“Changing to a reduced timetable during this period of much lower demand will deliver certainty for those people who need to travel while saving taxpayers’ money,” said Robert Nisbet, director of nations and regions at the Rail Delivery Group.
“We ask people to check before they travel in the weeks ahead and we thank our frontline rail staff whose hard work is keeping other key workers moving.”
Rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris urged people who are using the railways, including those who need to travel to vaccination centres, to “check their route before they travel, and aim to do so outside of peak times wherever possible.”
The prime minister said last week that he was imposing the new national lockdown because previous measures were no longer sufficient to curb the spread of a new CCP virus variant, which he said has a 50 to 70 percent faster rate of transmission.
Under the new restrictions, people must stay at home, and may only leave for limited reasons, such as to shop for essentials, to work if they cannot work from home, to exercise, to seek medical assistance, or to escape domestic abuse.
