Recent content by bobshuruncle

Well I'm glad that's over, quite a worrying 6 weeks.Looks like it could be an interesting deal with lots of possibilities,maybe opening up the european market for GB.......can we just go back to being gb now please?

Well I'm sure that makes GB staff feel a whole lot better !!

Looks like they grabbed the first photo and statement they could find.Didn't GBRF lose the Royal Mail contract ?????

That would be my call too.Keep GBRF as a seperate (and profitable) identity. If it ain't broke.....

Thats the key to it...Don't start messing around with a sucessful business. I know several people who work for GBRF and have heard many stories of how employees have ' gone the extra mile' to make a job work. It is this kind of 'can do' attitude which makes this company stand out. But the...

No First are definitely selling GBRF,they need the cash and as GB are doing so well its an easy sale and money in the bank for First

Not sure about that one, I do know that GB staff have a better basic pay than F/L, not sure about bonuses etc, but surely F/L won't increase everyone elses pay inline with the GB staff they inherit. Personally if I was F/L or DBS buying GB I'd leave it as a standalone company trading on its...

Well if F/L do buy GBRF they will simply swallow up their intermodal and coal services so a lot of people could say goodbye to their jobs at GB. Would that interest the monopolies board ??? How weird would that be..a sucessful company swallowed up by one that is losing money and all the staff...

What a shame,I always liked seeing the GB livery go past,much nicer than the green or red ones

More likely to be the purchase of GBRF from First Group :(:(:(