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This is very true. When it was all agreed it was expected that the trains would be in service "shortly". 1713432444 Agreed! They really don't care anymore. Even though the last ASLEF strikes received more media attention than previously there was barely a peep from Government.

This seems to be the equivalent of the SWR Class 701 introduction.

And SWR lost all leverage when they introduced the uplift in pay immediately in return for ASLEF agreeing DCO as the standard method of operation, rather than phasing in when the 701s started being introduced. There was always surely a risk that ASLEF would take the money and then do all it...

Not at all angry - just exasperated! :D

Interesting insight - thanks for that!

But the introduction of the 701s isn't related to the national dispute. Training on new rolling stock is a fundamental part of the job, is it not? ASLEF can't cherry-pick what parts the job description their members are going to undertake in pursuit of their pay dispute. Like all TUs they are...

But not so many issues that one unit can be used daily on part of one diagram, obviously. But, as we've all said several times before, who really knows what's going on? The fact that we have several SWR staff on here and no one is able to say definitively what the issue is it does suggest to...

It depends on what criteria you set to determine whether it works. For me, as a passenger, it definitely works. It's far from perfect, and the shine has been taken off it in recent years, but it's still good. The current fashion for exercising break clauses on routes will I think die down...

Yet the ASLEF dispute hasn't prevented WMT progressively introducing its new trains, including Class 730 Aventras. C2C also introduced its 720s during the dispute. This would point to prevailing industrial relations being significantly worse at SWR than elsewhere. Is this the case, can anyone say?

It's fortunate that SWT got the training programme for the 707s underway before SWR took over otherwise we'd probably still be waiting for them as well, or they'd have gone straight to SE without ever entering service with SWR.

So another three months and all we'll see is another soft launch type two additional return journeys to Windsor M-F?! At this rate the units will be life-expired before training is complete! Clearly the "12-18 months for full introduction" that SWR stated in January was way off targeted...

What an extraordinary post! Firstly, in your comment about "Windsor side" you've got the wrong person. I have been using the "Windsor side" for most of my life so know full well what it is, thank you very much. Suggest you make sure you have the right person before throwing around accusations...

It runs just behind the 0709 from Reading, which departs Staines at 0758. That's the busiest AM Peak up Reading service, often with standing room only by the time it arrives at Staines, so the 0753 from Windsor provides some relief for that.

Ownership being conveniently ignored...

LT (both tube and buses) has historically always had zero tolerance of dishonesty involving money, however small the sums. If proven it's always usually resulted in automatic dismissal, and the unions know that. In fact, a good rep would advise someone in such a case to resign before they're...

Yes, they would have been BYD chassis.

Common elsewhere in Europe apparently.

Totally agree. It's all very populist and fashionable at the moment to say public ownership good, private ownership bad and bringing something into public ownership will magically improve things dramatically (that's not to stay I'm against public ownership - far from it!). East Thames Buses...

That's a rather strange connection to make. They're just a "bog" standard universal toilets. The scrotes that inhabit parts of the Thameslink network would vandalise the toilets whatever manufacturer or design they were.

I'd have preferred to hear a pledge for a massive expansion of bus priority throughout London and new controls on roadworks, but maybe he's yet to announce all that....