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On Railnews website: “Northern managing director David Brown said: ’We’re disappointed that RMT has made this offer too late in the week to restore a normal timetable in time for Saturday.’” RMT’s latest press release: “30th November 2018 NEWS RELEASE Immediate RMT Northern Rail...

Northern are apparently starting issuing Penalty Fares on the Airedale and Wharfedale lines from Monday 19th February. Sure it’ll be as resounding a success for them as it was last time around.

17 November 2017 RMT Press Office: Strike action goes ahead on Arriva Cross Country on Sunday as management wreck talks. RAIL UNION RMT confirmed this morning that strike action by train managers and senior conductors on Arriva Cross Country in a dispute over abuse of rostering and Sunday...

There you go. And there goes safety as we know it on the railway.

7.1 and 7.2 make interesting reading...

No union could have had any input in whether the work was outsourced - it was a part of the re-franchising process, and one which was kept extremely quiet until being sprung on people very late in the day indeed, during the TUPE talks themselves, just a few weeks before the franchise hand over...

Thanks to fantastic representations from the RMT, all bar one managed to secure positions in various other roles within the new Arriva Rail North. The only one who didn't accepted a severance arrangement.

Doesn't help matters now that since the franchise change the customer relations department has been disbanded and outsourced from Northern to Carillion. None of the staff in the Carillion office in Sheffield who now receive the the complaints have any experience of working for the former...

No you didn't. Adam 0984 asked the question though... In a year or two Northern or its successor will decide they don't need the customer hosts any more and the roles will disappear. They'll never get the lost BO window shifts back. They will however decide to use STM's finest to 'assist'...

They are all ticket office and travel centre staff - it's a turn in their link. You've got to be joking if you think Northern introduced extra posts for this - 2 turns were taken out of the ticket office roster to pay for it. You'll have seen staff from elsewhere coving the posts due to the...

Hear Hear! A giant of a man in every respect. Irreplaceable, and a hero to many thousands of railwaymen and women. Our future as those men and women is now less secure through your passing. Rest in peace brother, and thank you.

I think Leeds - Knaresborough is stunningly beautiful most of the way, and criminally overlooked.

Anybody mentioned these for 'double faced' platforms???: Norwood Junction Guildford Canary Wharf

City Thameslink and Blackfriars anyone? Smitham and Coulsdon North were probably the closest, and one of them did indeed shut...

So that bit on the back of all bank cards which says "Not valid unless signed" must just be there for purely decorative purposes..?:roll: