Recent content by yardman

I think that was the one that was involved in the ladbroke grove rail crash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash

Hey all, Like many of the posters on here, i too think it was silly this individual wandering onto railway lines. But the question always remain, how do we prevent it from happening? Seems all the barrier protection and advertising in the world wont stop the inquizatives who decide that they...

I think many of us unionised guys know the reason for the break down in talks. Was curious to know how the network continued (albeit under a skeleton service). Am off today so may pop over to my local station and offer my support. Driver managers running the tracks should be interesting...

Well it seems despite some pretty stern message being made by the staff at NXEA it seems a shame that talks have fallen down and once again there is no alternative than for the staff to 'reiterate' their concerns. I think the whys and woes have been pretty much summed up here. Just one...

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Just on the same token, As most of these franchises have a lot of movement (ie a tendency to change hands every so often) How much does it cost to re-livery all their associated stock? Surely this would be a waste of funds knowing that the franchise may change hands at any point and the...

As from what been said in this thread, much of what happens within union based environments is spun out of context by the media. From a differing perspective, I was a union negotiator, and over the last couple of years have won decent deals for the company i belong to. This year we ended up...

Hope that wasnt referring back at me!!

Hi guys, I hear on the grapevine (NXEA website) that there might be some possible strike action by ASLEF and RMT over pay awards on the NXEA network. Any truth to all this?

Well it might well be worth complaining, will get on to that, seems a bit silly that imposing such strict restrictions seem necessary, particularly as the previous restrictions seemed suitable enough. thx john. yardman Just received an email back from Atoc saying they will refund (by...

Peter, Sadly there is no clause that has been broken, it was more the principle of it. When you buy a priviledge card (by that i mean something that offers a discount), you dont generally expect it to change a month or two into getting it. Whats annoying is that they get you to sign to say...

Hi All, I havent managed to find a thread on this issue on here (unless someone could advise). I noticed that the conditions on use for railcards have changed from May onwards. I purchased a railcard back in March to make use of my increased use of the railways as a result of my move...

Hi all, Just read this on NXEA website: http://www.nationalexpresseastanglia.com/about_us/news/national_express_east_anglia_and_national_express_east_coast_information_for_customers whose telling porkies? the government or NX?

Dont they do something similar at Peterborough with services to London KX with NXEC, the other being to London LivSt via NXEA being a service to Shenfield (being 2 stops back)?

Trouble is, how far does goodwill go before the TOC enforces compulsory sunday working? Although i dont work for the railways this kind of action could result in changes in T & Cs? Personally I would rather work the rostered sunday as overtime than risk having the sunday rostered into the...