Alex Hynes can get up to 20% of his salary in additional performance related bonuses. Given that his salary is £255,000, that's up to £51,000 in additional pay.
I suspect that was also supposed to be addressed in the refurb. If it's only the training set then it's not a big problem, but I don't like the sound of getting soaked on an in-service set.
The Network Rail bonus schemes and staff renumeration data are completely irrelevant to the discussion of ScotRail HSTs and the payment (or otherwise) of an Abellio ScotRail management bonus scheme. Some posters are enthusiastically calling on this thread for bonuses due to be paid to Abellio ScotRail management grades to be foregone; all I am asking is whether such a scheme actually exists in the first place. I suspect you’re avoiding the question because you don’t know the answer.
Oh, I'm not saying that Abellio getting kicked off the franchise would make any difference, although it would be dramatic and satisfy a few people. I'm assuming that services would have to then come under the direct control of Transport Scotland, making the situation even more political than it is at the moment. And, back on topic, we'd be still no closer to having a proper inter city service...
Not that I ever noticed, but I don't travel on GWR that much. I've been on plenty of leaky Pacers, 150s and 156s on Northern, but never a leaky HST - yet!
That is supposed to be an advantage of the door solution being used - as I understand it they're basically chopping the ends off the carriages and rebuilding them. Which is a lot easier than trying to fit plug doors into frames that aren't all the same size.
So if you abandon the HST plan now, and given that the various 156, 158 and 170 sets have now gone and are not coming back, what’s plan B? Because whatever it is it will take longer to implement than carrying on with the HST implementation. I have not yet seen any credible alternative that can now be delivered quicker.
Right, thanks - got the two methods confused. I knew that they were't following the Chiltern method because of the problems during that project.
You keep saying this, yet provide no evidence. Indeed, given what we know of the condition of the vehicles - leaking vehicles just one area as shown on this thread - clearly it is a much more difficult task than what was thought.
No, it's not ultra complex. But it is highly skilled. Manual coachbuilding is a skill that's difficult to find these days, since most trains are assembled from CNC cut and formed subassemblies these days.
I'm not promoting abandonment or pretend that I have a better solution, what I'm saying is that if in eight weeks time the remedial plan they come up with still has no real timescale for the HSTs, and services are still struggling to the extent that they are now, then something's going to have to give under political pressure. It might be the HSTs, or it might have to be Abellio.
I saw this going south over the Forth Railway Bridge, didn't have time to get a photo, it looks good.
The HSTs aren't going anywhere - it's a done deal. Eight weeks is enough time to get sufficient staff trained to make cancellations the exception rather than the norm. And hopefully long enough for refurb set number two (and hopefully three) into traffic if the reports of a multitude of ScotRail liveried carriages at Wabtec are to be believed. (It would make sense to install the doors before painting).
Great, and I wish them every success. Now the plan, and they, need to make it happen.
