I ran my own company and worked for myself for a couple of years after leaving employment after 31 years; the motivation is totally different. I wasn't doing it as an IR35 wheeze (in which I'd have been taking the benefits of self-employment in a job which was really as if I were an employee) but it was my sole source of income, no sick pay, no paid holiday etc. Essentially I was managing projects and only being paid on completion of defined work items, so if I didn't work then it wouldn't have happened. Mind you, I wasn't in the habit of taking time off sick prior to that when I was in employment.
The trains get some attention from the lib dem guy here in Cumbria in the press. I guess some of the press in Scotland is similar to round here, in that it is a lot of twitter quotes, and not much else of note.
Tim needs to complain about something now the Lakes line has a reliable hourly 195 service!
Thanks for all the help...
Nearly every train on the Lakes Line was cancelled today. Do we know why?
Staff shortages I’d expect, happened several times recently although its not usually every train .
I assume they’ll be put in ASAP with the public online timetable displaying these alterations.
Of course the day I decided to point out the relative return to reliability on the Lakes line it falls apart!
Seven of the refurbs were out today, of those 390148 ended up at Oxley so you might want to search for that unit in RTT tomorrow morning.
Yeah, that didn't go well - the 1640 ended up 88 late at Preston, and the pseudo-1740 had to wait for it. It's then met another delay at Wigan and is now 54 late.
I thought Preston did Blackpool as well as North to Glasgow/Edinburgh. They also do London Euston via both routes & Manchester which makes it a very interesting depot indeed. At one time the S&C was also part of their remit. Upset Glasgow & them & you really are in trouble.I think there's a Preston crew depot as well, isn't there? But yes, all Avanti trains change crew at Preston if they go north* of it, I believe. That's one reason why everything stops there.
* I suspect London crews sign Blackpool as that's effectively just a long turnaround siding as far as Avanti goes. Though that's more west
Presumably that will be drugs of the 'Night Nurse' * variety, as opposed to those of the white marching powder variety!
Presumably that will be drugs of the 'Night Nurse' * variety, as opposed to those of the white marching powder variety!
(* other cold relief remedies are available).
Have Avanti just called people refusing to work overtime "unofficial strike action", or is there something else going on here?
Blimey, that's a big statement to make.
Not really, whilst ASLEF is perfectly happy to routinely almost close the railway even during important events like the Commonwealth Games all those cosy agreements that result in drivers being treated with kid gloves should at the very least be suspended .
Suspended for what?
