Eurostar is being forced to leave hundreds of seats empty on trains to and from London to avoid long queues at stations, the cross-Channel train operator said.
Severn Valley Railway’s current vice chairman Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster will take over as interim managing director, the company’s board of directors has announced.
Train reliability across Britain reached the worst level on record in recent weeks, with Avanti West Coast cancelling the equivalent of about one in five services.
Train operators have been ordered by a regulator to stop misusing a process which removes services from schedules without them being classed as cancelled.
Train operating companies have made a “best and final offer” to the biggest rail workers union in a bid to break the deadlocked dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
