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Actually I would argue that the new generation of senior railway managers are definitely trying to make it work like Sports Direct. Especially when a member of safety critical staff replies to non-rules trained manager's instruction 'That is not safe, I will not be doing that.' to be told...

It would certainly throw a cat among the pigeons, but the only loses will be the customers. Train Operators would need to increase their 'compensation investigation' teams to prove liability. Network Rail would have to increase their 'compensation investigation' teams to prove liability...

You may find TfL also had to take action against Cloudbleed which was causing a leak of personal data over HTTP. TfL being one of over 120000 sites at risk.

Some colleagues do like giving drivers a route refresher sometimes.

The problem with SWT on that 2Fxx flow though is that it is predominantly (though not exclusively) the domain of non-commercial guards. Someone somewhere must have evaluated that the cost of "commercialising" the route, paying the additional training and wage costs for commercial guards and...

The Government set the benchmark by increasing the National Minimum Wage. That makes anyone else's wages, for work which maybe worthy of a premium over the NMW, worth less. Or maybe someone who works a shop till, or cleans an office, should be paid the same as someone who is reponsible for...

Paid at an extremely premium rate though. Treble time for signallers and controllers to at start with - so staffed as lean as possible.

I have lost track of which version of the interview process we use now. Obviously everyone gets the same questions; but it was something like the maximum score you could get was: Existing grade 10-6: 70 points Existing grade 5-1: 50 points Non signaller: 30 points Although that has...

One thing to remember with the signaller assessments is that it does not matter if you pass at the assessment stage; the manager now only needs to interview the top 5 scoring candidates. Like many specialist roles these days - HR have meddled with the recruitment process to try and align it...

Now wouldn't that be a swell marketing gimmick that was had recently.... :wink:

To be fair the TOC has a responsibility to reasonably expect you to be relieved at that 6 hour mark; therefore you can refuse if there is no likelihood of you reaching a suitable PNB point.

Just because they can 'run trains normally' it does not mean trains are in the right place. Anything sat in Exeter New Yard was probably stabled and in need of a crew to travel by road or special ECS to prep the unit. What would be the point of sending crews west by road 'just in case' the...

Spoofing an e-mail address is ridiculously easy and indeed legitimately used by many companies; including ones I work for. Obviously when the e-mail headers are examined, it will reveal where the e-mail originated, or not.

The problem here is that SWT has an automated PA that needs to be programmed in advance. The guard presets the calling patten using a 4 digit code. If the guard does not know the new calling pattern as a normal service there may not be a 4 digit code to use. They can not manually remove...

Thing is that before Opentraintimes only rail staff with access used it. Also, some signallers use the berths as personal reminders. If a train is due to recess in a loop a time might appear in the berth in rear...