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With great respect, as I understand it, the offer is still available to be accepted if ASLEF change their mind. I'm not suggesting that they will or that they should or commenting on the behaviour of either side. But as the offer can be accepted it is still technically "on the table". It is...

Ah! Understood - thanks again. That's really helpful.

That is very helpful - thank you so much for making the effort - it really jelps me slot all of these things into place. If I can be greedy, could you elaborate a little on what a "Link" is?

Thats the missing piece - No service. I've got it now - My brain is having the weekend off so thank you.

Thanks for this. it answered a few questions that I've be storing up whilst reading this thread. FWIW I'm an average passenger who found this site when wondering what on earth was going on in the railways 1713032529 With respect, I'm quite numerate and have decades of experience in operational...

I'm sorry, I'm trying to keep up with the terminology as I'm genuinely interested but I didn't quite understand that. By "They can only be used when all normal booking out procedures for the existing establishment of drivers have been exhausted", does that mean that they can only be used when...

As I understood some of the previous threads - it's possible that a TOC has newly qualified drivers who are not allowed to driver until an existing driver leaves so that they don't take away potential overtime from other drivers. So they are paid but sit around as emergency backup. If I have...

I wonder who would cave first in this very unlikely scenario. I'd guess that it would force MSL legislation into use on commuter lines - even if the TOCs don't want to use it... Surely its much more likely we'll keep the constant drip of action until November and then a new round of negotiation...

Thanks. I see the difference in the challenge if it has to be a different service - still, either way, its one heck of an endevour - I admire all of your persistence.

Could you get back on the same train to the next stop or did you have to board a different one at each station?

Do we have more weather related outages now than we used to?

Wasn't that pretty much the plan for HS2?

I understand that the Russian railways run very closely to timetable and customer satisfaction scores are very high. The European part of Russia is considerably bigger than the UK and its biggest city is more populous than London. They don't seem to have a problem with state control of industries.

I would very much hope that they are done differently and I look forward to the detail. I asked out of curiosity, not as sign of a possible direction of travel. Any change (or lack of change) is unlikely to make everyone happy... I did note that the proposals from the current government...

Was pay harmonised across BR? I think I read that it wasn't?