Recent content by The North Briton

Quite generous of them to allow travel on ALL (rather than ANY) of their services that day…

True, but not really relevant to my question. All the trains with added stops start/terminate at Peterborough or North thereof.

There are 26 trains listed on LNER’s website today as making additional stops ‘due to industrial action’ (presumably the Hitachi dispute, which is referred to at the top of the Travel Alerts page). Yet, there are NO trains shown as cancelled (at least not yet)!? Does anyone know what is going on?

The Museum of Liverpool on the waterfront has an interesting display on the much-lamented Liverpool Overhead Railway (and plenty of other stuff).

Presumably, seeing a following train go past them would have sobered them up a bit….

To be pedantic, a BIK is something of monetary value other than money (and usually taxed as such). What you are describing is simply a benefit, or a privilege, if you will.

And there are a lot of inexperienced staff working on the Customer Information function.

When the OLR took over LNER, payment of the management bonus for the 2019/20 year was delayed indefinitely, even though the performance (and other) targets had been met. I doubt whether anything has been paid since.

And the final paragraph of the notice appears to be saying ‘LNER are going to continue to monitor the reasons for poor performance and, as long as those reasons remain mainly external, we (the DfT) are not going to do anything about it’ (I paraphrase, of course)

Can you elaborate? I knew the rest day working agreement has not been renewed, but this suggests there is an issue with the movement of spare turns?

Quite ironic, given that the DfT hold the purse strings and presumably have some oversight of management strategy…

Given the almost incredible lack of professionalism in the correspondence received from LNER, and their subsequent radio silence, is anyone ‘in the know’ able to check that the bank account details supplied are actually correct?

I can’t imagine businesses in any other industry going straight to accusing its customers of fraud in writing without first considering there might be an innocent explanation (like the customer was right and the trains were delayed by the requisite amount of time). Absolutely disgusting approach...

I wondered this too, as 1Y16 was booked to stop at PBO, one would have thought the Lumo service would be approaching Connington by the time the LNER was ready to depart (if the running order had been maintained). The report refers to the signaller deciding to regulate, but I wonder if the source...

I’m surprised Huddersfield hasn’t been mentioned, as it has a perfectly oval inner ring road, which I believe is designated A62 throughout.