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Can’t speak for other TOC’s but at GA we haven’t had a pay rise in 3 years after they walked away from negotiations in 2020. In those 3 years inflation has rocketed, we’ve worked right through and been trained on a new fleet of trains.
Nothing was offered at the last meeting despite money now...
Out of curiosity, when a 755 is on diesel it shuts down and locks the doors after 20 mins without a key in. How does it work when in multiple and one unit is on electric and the other is on diesel?
The only time that won’t happen heading to Cambridge/Peterborough is when the unit is already in Diesel mode. The will switch to Electric there on the way back