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    ASLEF push for more female and BAME drivers

    Back when I was a shunter we shared a messroom with traincrew. The guys who I was trained by were old hairy a**ed b*****ds who cut their teeth in the era of loco hauled coaching stock, hooking off and on all day and the pub opposite the station being the de facto messroom. When the first...
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    ASLEF push for more female and BAME drivers

    And that’s partly what the MMI checks for.
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    ASLEF push for more female and BAME drivers

    Aslef would consider the soviets to be dangerously right wing. Although they do refer to women members as “sister.”
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    ASLEF push for more female and BAME drivers

    To be fair, this is the sort of thing I would expect ASLEF rightly to be involved in. That said, I’ve given up reading the ASLEF journal as it’s basically a Corbyn love-fest rather than anything relevant to the job.
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    ASLEF push for more female and BAME drivers

    This this this, 1000x this. We should absolutely be recruiting recruiting from all walks of life and targeting underrepresented groups can only be a good thing But, (not so much at my current TOC, much more at the previous one) this is the biggest cause of friction between staff in the same...
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    Trainee Depot Driver East Midlands Trains

    If you’re going to be based at Derby then ask for a pass for 4shed.
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    More dangerous lineside behaviour around Flying Scotsman

    Because you’d be frankly scared if you knew how few them there were in each vast area they cover outside of London. Of course London, as ever, can have as many as it wants...
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    Landslip At Corby (13/06)

    It was stood in Humberstone Rd sidings just North of Leicester.
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    More dangerous lineside behaviour around Flying Scotsman

    That doesn’t mean we should be tolerating the type of behaviour that we’ve been seeing. If it needs a ban to prevent fatalities then that’s what it needs. And I suggest that the misguided anger against the idea should be directed against the morons that stand trackside rather than the people...
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    More dangerous lineside behaviour around Flying Scotsman

    This really isn’t as hilarious as you perhaps think it is.
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    Landslip At Corby (13/06)

    It was quite obviously heavy sarcasm......
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    Staff car park discount in another TOC station.

    As a GTR driver surely your chauffeur could just circle the block while waiting for you?
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    More dangerous lineside behaviour around Flying Scotsman

    https://twitter.com/intermodalityuk/status/1139823695176916992?s=21
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    East Midlands franchise won by Abellio

    Wait until you see the sample tie.... :'(
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    Rail crash driver died after telling signalman train had passed

    I’m sure there is a good one, but is there a reason the crossing couldn’t be it’s own track section within a section so to speak. Circuited or having maybe even it’s own axle counters so the bobby knows if something has gone over it and passed complete to the other side? Edit: I don’t mean...
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    Landslip At Corby (13/06)

    Cricket + Download Festival.
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    Landslip At Corby (13/06)

    A good driver would swerve out the way.
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    Landslip At Corby (13/06)

    How is WSP going to help you crashing into a landslide?
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    Landslip At Corby (13/06)

    Basically, no.

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