The January train timetable

A reduced train service will operate during January.   Perhaps some reduction is understandable, but on our line (in broad terms) the number of trains is down by half.  Yet by the middle of January, I'd guess that something in the region of about 75 to 80% of people will be back using the trains.


And from our local station, there's a gap between 8.29 am and 9.08 am - that's right, an interval of 39 minutes, at the time when people are going to work - when NO train will stop to pick up passengers.  Normally, there would be 4 trains in this period, but it seems none of these will run.   And this is on the back of an increase in the fares?

Update:   Daniel Bowen has also blogged about this issue.
Update 2:    Metro have quietly plugged the 39 minute gap. by changing one of the expresses so as to stop at 8.48 am (see Daniel Bowen's blog).  Just the same, I think the trains at this time of day will be very crowded by the time we get to the second part of January.