In the "Times" today
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...nts-for-staff-to-run-failing-routes-qk2pl2w6t
Anyone here tempted?
I am tempted - but only to suggest that the DfT should have recruited them a couple of decades ago, so that it might have made a better fist of the remits it has been issuing from its Ivory Tower!
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...nts-for-staff-to-run-failing-routes-qk2pl2w6t
but as it's behind a paywall I can't see any more!The government’s in-house train operator faces a struggle to recruit enough rail experts as concerns mount that at least five major franchises are at risk.
Sources said that the so-called operator of last resort (OLR) — a subsidiary of the Department for Transport — was finding it difficult to cope with a mounting workload caused by the implosion of train companies.
A number of former railway executives are understood to have been asked to come out of retirement to work for the organisation amid uncertainty over the future of the franchising system.
Anyone here tempted?
I am tempted - but only to suggest that the DfT should have recruited them a couple of decades ago, so that it might have made a better fist of the remits it has been issuing from its Ivory Tower!
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