Lots of stuff around London, Birmingham, Doncaster and Huddersfield.
This disruption to occasional users who would rather take the train than drive at one of the most stressful times is terrible advertising for the railways and must deter new users.
However it minimises disruption for regular users.
Government policy for years at many levels, under most parties, is to move more people by mass transport and fewer by low-occupancy cars, and they’re never going to achieve that by prioritising regular users over attracting new users like this. Regular users will get most of the benefits of works so can write off some short-term disruption over months. Occasional users just see this as an unreliable service basically telling them to go away and use more expensive cars.
The other 355 days will be disrupted by regular, non-engineering work! 🤡
