Only peak hour extras. Off peak was Euston to Watford, as now, and Broad Street to Richmond - 3 per hour I think. And as well as the Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow expresses, there were locals - what are now LNW services. Certainly more than six in total.
The most likely explanations being that either they were fed up with him anyway and liked having the cover to get rid of him, or because it wasn't just a Hendy thing and they didn't think the incoming management would enjoy the criticism any more than Hendy did.
He's a member of the House of Lords - he can't stand for Parliament at all.
If they couldn't see the potential for damage to their business from such an individual then they are utterly idiotic. They clearly haven't done any form of due diligence on his social media postings.
Two of them? Eeeek!
I don't think it could be any more obvious these are false. For a start:
I think it's a quote about Dennis, not Hendy.
Methinks the apparently egotistical Hendy will hate the next week or so..... Just wait until the tabloids start on the sex worker story.....
NR or more accurately a certain arrogant egotist are NOT within their rights to threaten a business potentially contrary to public procurement legislation though.... Methinks a parliamentary committee will be all over that.
I don't see Dennis being the kind of person to accept constraints on what he can do. To be honest this seems like a case of two massive egos clashing given Dennis reaction since the news broke e.g. releasing merchandise about the incident. I still think a sacking was extreme but, given Dennis' personality, it doesn't surprise me that it got to that situation.
Balanced.
They did that to death when it happened. All quite amusing at the time, especially The Sun's headline.
What Dennis did wouldn't be covered under any form of whistleblowing policy.
arguably, his and NR's reputation has been far more adversely impacted by these actions than a throwaway remark in a news story ever did - especially one that had a factual basis given the regulator was taking an interest in Euston overcrowding
Fair point. I was talking more generally about Gareth Dennis saying stuff 'in the public domain', which as you say in this case was some comments to a journalist rather than specifically something on social media.
Oh dear....
Agreed that, on balance, Network Rail / Peter Hendy have come out of this with more reputational damage than Gareth Dennis.
He might as well carry on - he’s completely unemployable in the railway industry anyway.
Well, the chances are a lot less than if he hadn't whinged to The Independent and any other media outfit that listened to his breathless hyped-up description of events. Nobody with any sense in the railway business is now going to look at such an applicant.
Agreed. Several people I speak to have noted that as well. When he started doing his Youtube stuff, his style was tolerable, but as he's become more popular he does seem to have become more arrogant and belligerent. Shame really. Other railway podcasters e.g. Green Signals seem to generally strike the balance between having the expertise and being a little bit humble with it.
That itself is a bit hyperbolic isn't it? He said Euston is unsafe during times of disruption when it gets really busy. I don't travel through Euston very often personally, but I've definitely seen other people on this forum and also on social media say very similar things.
Sorry but you've made similar comments a few times now but I fail to see what part of what he said is "hyped up" or anything similar.
Its a good example of what an internet echo-chamber can do to someone with good intentions
