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Eg (re)introducing new services that “cost” money but also generate revenue, and revenue > costs.

Quite right too. Their logic of it getting worse if the train doesn’t move isn’t wrong. But the inferred pressure to the driver to therefore ‘just go’ is. Something like: “Dear Manager. I didn’t fancy going to prison today.” 100% this. Exactly. Everyone on the railway is now more aware than...

I think I disagree. It makes it a lot harder for people to know what’s going on. You’ll probably get a similar(ish) impact because a large proportion might just see that drivers are on strike, and stay at home. A large proportion of the travelling public don’t have any interest in the detail...

Yes, it sounds like that is the case from other posts. It’s the fact it’s in the base roster that means you don’t want to deviate too far from booked to avoid creating crewing issues. In a similar vein if there’s engineering work - sometimes you’re better having three short diagrams in...

Although it's a reduced service, diagrams will still need to sit within fixed rostered hours to avoid knocking booked train crew off their rostered turns & then having to find a spare. Given that it’s the mid morning trains being reinstated in this TT (and by that I mean not early, not late -...

I’m not, but I don’t think using the last 4 years as a benchmark is hugely fair. The provider of the trains went into administration, and before that Covid had a massive impact. I think this comment is partly true. Clearly, the largest demand perceived is for the college students. Otherwise...

Whilst I don’t have knowledge of the rules at this location - for similar situations elsewhere, it won’t be the guard & driver figuring out what to do. It’s likely a phone call to control, and then for the on call management to make a decision about a degraded method of dispatch. Whilst it’s...

Isn’t it fair to say that if that was the case, nothing would be happening. What were these plentiful options? And why such a heavy dislike of school children? They’re quite important to this line, it seems! A peak hours train is running. There are trains before 9am, and around 5pm. That’s...

Whilst not incorrect - a point that’s often missed is that the exact combination of strike action / days is still frequently different. Eg Friday ASLEF strike to Saturday WTT Friday ASLEF strike to Saturday RMT Friday RMT to Saturday Aslef Friday RMT to Saturday WTT Friday RMT to Saturday...

Great Western (full set, top lights & dining set), LMS & LNER. A fantastic range ! And a lot see fairly regular use in one form or another as the various sets cycle through for maintenance.

Thanks all, much appreciated!!

Hi all, This is most likely a daft question, but having never traveled by Eurostar before, I want to make sure. I purchased my tickets for tomorrow at St Pancras a few months back and have subsequently added the tickets to my ticket wallet via their app. I don’t have the physical tickets with...

Quite common in the industry. GTR, XC, SWR, LO - all offer placement programs (or have recently) that are very popular amongst transport graduates. I’d argue these are a positive - recruiting young blood into train planning to address a very stark skills shortage.

This, 100%. I may have some strong opinions about other areas of this dispute, but I will defend this until the cows come home. It sits in the same category of “salary race to the the bottom” nursed get less money than train drivers for me. People expecting to use trains on their days off...

It seems strange that it’s taken so long for this clarity to be given, if that’s all that was needed. Seems quite reasonable to me as well. How can you be in dispute if you are agreeing to go into discussions. If you’re in dispute before you’ve had the discussions, what is the point in having...