Recent content by diffident

If it’s TfW organising it, I’d believe it!

They are abandoned and becoming quite overgrown. Shouldn’t be too much of an effort to reinstate them though.

Given the amount of work already completed in the Water Orton area for the delta junction, I think it is somewhat beyond the point of being able to stop it.

Going from the quote below, I'm interested in a discussion about the legalities of smoking at railway stations... If it's only illegal where there is a sign saying so, and say on an outdoor platform, at a remote station, would walking to the end whilst waiting for a train and having a quick...

I was on a 158 from Wrexham General to Birmingham on Monday 15th that had a passenger window taped up too. Seems pretty widespread.

Forget about the Unions versus Government stuff for a minute.... how on earth is this ever acceptable on any level? If I ran Avanti, I'd be utterly embarrassed and offering my resignation.

Playing devils advocate here.... if those prep shifts don't take place, and all the strikes happen... won't everyone walk in the morning after the strike to an utter mess in the depot?

Sounds to me that it's designed as such that the DfT can take the contract off them with no penalty, maybe?

Is that what they are calling West Midlands Trains guards these days?? :lol::lol::lol:

Is a plan E via an aeroplane viable?

A point of order, Pensions are taxable including the state pension above the tax-free allowance.

They could do it now, because Trade Unions operate under "collective bargaining". The Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULRCA) - (I'm sure I'm not teaching anyone to suck eggs here). But what has never been tried, is when collective bargaining collapses and it becomes...

The risk here, is that the Government/DfT/TOC's could now determine that talks are at a stalemate, and implement their offer anyway. I support rail staff, but the RMT do risk going off a cliff edge here.

It could be construed as planning and preparing a criminal act. I.e. if you know where all the cameras are, security personnel are positioned, etc, you could arguably make a plan to evade them. In respect of this chap, he was an utter cretin. I hope he's taken to court and the magistrate...

I use the railway everyday, and the frustrations with strikes and the cancellations we suffer is very clear with the commuters I travel with.