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Fruit Pickers DD ?

Posted: 19:27 Monday 23rd August 2021
by DD12
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What chance a Double Decker being used on the Saturday 417 / 418 in the coming weeks ?

Re: Fruit Pickers DD ?

Posted: 05:56 Tuesday 24th August 2021
by TimBrown
DD12 wrote:
19:27 Monday 23rd August 2021
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What chance a Double Decker being used on the Saturday 417 / 418 in the coming weeks ?
Will Eastern European students and labourers come to the UK for the short term harvest period with all the problems of Covid and the botched Brexit 'deal' necessitating hard to obtain short-term entry visas, where free access to and from all EU countries previously applied? Much of last year's crops rotted in the fields and on the trees for lack of suitable labour if the press/media reports are correct.

Regret I was unable to find any definitive articles on the net to confirm the situation in 2021.

Have any members accurate up-to-date information on this costly farming crisis?

Re: Fruit Pickers DD ?

Posted: 10:59 Tuesday 24th August 2021
by bmmoboy
The 417 services on Saturdays are busy, but don’t quite warrant a double decker.

Re: Fruit Pickers DD ?

Posted: 13:06 Tuesday 24th August 2021
by DD12
bmmoboy wrote:
10:59 Tuesday 24th August 2021
The 417 services on Saturdays are busy, but don’t quite warrant a double decker.
Thanks for that info bmmoboy.

Re: Fruit Pickers DD ?

Posted: 14:20 Wednesday 25th August 2021
by AdamH
I would imagine that with Brexit and Covid there aren't as many pickers as in previous years.