Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are regarded as extra Bank Holidays in the TXC Profile. The main purpose of this is to ensure that the run-offs on these days are correctly specified. These days don’t operate quite the same as normal bank holidays in that rather than a set bank holiday timetable operating on those days the normal journeys for that day usually operate up until a certain time in the evening.

Unlike most true Bank Holidays the data for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve has to be updated each year depending on which day of the week they fall. This creates extra work for those maintaining the data and is a potential source of misunderstanding and data errors.

In addition there are movable days for example Christmas Day Holiday and New Years Day holiday which need to be coded each year, and included even if they do not exist in a given year. For example Boxing Day Holiday does not occur in 2022, its next occurrence is 2026.

Discussion and identification of any changes to make the handling of Bank Holiday data should take place. A change request was submitted to PTIC in September to start this process.