But the problem is that a schedule is no good either way if trains never run by them. If the new schedule is being flouted why would the old schedule not be flouted even more, and trains continue to run at whatever NS chooses to run it on?
The purpose of the change was to use the new schedule as the base for computing the metrics to enforce. What is the likelihood that NS would agree to use the old schedule as the basis for the metric to enforce?
This whole business about reverting to the old schedule with 90 day notice IMHO is just a mechanism for blessing some rearrangement of deck chairs on the you know what.