Recent content by Nicholas Lewis

It is totally daft would imagine the cancellation charges for plant on hire and other sub contracts would have covered a fair proportion of work along with all the disruption that folk in that area will now have to endure again at some point in the future.

What relevance are the PINs that DafT have issued for C2C and SWR? Can they legally make an award in advance of the current contract expiry dates that would be legally binding?

Indeed perfectly reasonable as i say where are all the extra drivers AWC promised?

One hot standby at Hornsey, Three Bridges and Cricklewood should be more than sufficient and presumably already built into the diagrams without need more expensive units lying idle. Its about time the companies providing these trains were held to account to deliver on their contracts on train...

AWC was awarded the extension because they had plan to deal with driver shortages so whoever reviewed that hollow commitment from DafT clearly didn't ask the right questions.

SWR could have robbed the Southerns 455's for running spares of bogies and other non traction system parts but guess they thought they would have the 701's in use by now.

And are those spare 4 now used by Thameslink or is that 4 units that GN should take back to release an additional 4 x 387's to Southern.

So £600 a shift isn't enough to entice drivers in?

So what will be the outcome if he loses?

If it throws a spanner in the works im all for that although if Ross Brawn and his team are doing their job they should be tweaking regs to prevent any one team becoming over dominant

They do extremely well though in being able to diagram and roster such a variety of stock such that the service is delivered pretty effectively even when a work to rule is in force.

Thats for sure as usual we are first out of the blocks to invent something and then fail to exploit it.

Front page on several of tomorrows papers https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/24/labour-promises-rail-nationalisation-within-five-years-of-coming-to-power This is in advance of key speech by Lousie Haigh tomorrow Sounds like no role for private operators going forward but ROSCOs...

Whats changed to need conversion training?

Looking at the installation at St. Pancras Thameslink the bar is pretty chunky as are the supports and wouldn't be surprised that catenary would be better solution to maximise rail to wire height distance.