Meanwhile I very rarely see the 180s out at the weekend, although they could be sneaking into and out of Nottingham.
There’s lots of doubling up at weekends, and 180s are now only supposed to run as single units due to problems with the couplings if units are attached/detached too frequently.
If its down to onboard staffing, its absolutely nuts that a pair of 222s can't operate with the driver in the front unit and the guard / TM in the rear unit
It isn’t just that. It’s also down unit shortages because lots of maintenance staff/shed drivers etc are also being pinged and isolating.
At some point, someone in the management team needs to stand up and say they are going to do it for the sake of the fare-paying customers
Which would lead to trains being cancelled en mass because, quite correctly, the staff would refuse to depart from agreed working practices to operate them. That also isn’t good for fair paying customers.
That *absolutely* isn’t to spite passengers. It’s because if the company asks staff to deviate from the agreed rules and something goes wrong, those same members will then find themselves in hot water with the company for departing from what’s been agreed.
That might sound mad, but it’s just the way the industry works, and part of the reason why the unions are there in the first place (it’s also by no means specific to EMR).
and management should tell the staff to switch of the NHS Track and Trace app too!).
Lots of staff members have deleted it across the industry (this one never downloaded it!).
But it’s difficult for any company to be seen to be *requiring* this in the current circumstances when even the government doesn’t seem to know its backside from its elbow in terms of what people are supposed to do.