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I think it was to do with early computerisation of timetabling and operation systems in the 1970s. Which saw names shortened and simplified where practicable. So, for example Bushey and Oxhey returned to its original just Bushey on 6 May 1974. Vauxhall & Duddeston became Duddeston also on 6 May...

The 1993 act specified the railcards mandated on franchised. For example the Network Railcard was not mandated. The 1993 act has been amended several times, and will be again with the creation of GBR. To date the mandatory railcards have not changed to include products created since that time...

The leader of Watford council got a peerage - 800 people are members of the House of Lords - The bar is set low now. Some are worthy but many are not. It’s so devalued, of the last eight Prime Ministers (that’s 35 years worth), only Cameron and May thought it worthwhile joining. Before Major...

ORCATS allocations are used to apportion the overwhelming majority of ticket sales. When you subtract the biggest agreed allocation factors in Lennon like Oyster/PAYG the number of TOCs that have significant numbers of agreed allocations for rail products will probably be just the open access...

if the employer provides services to staff that does not increase its costs, it’s not a benefit in kind. For example if a private school does not charge fees for the children of its employees attending the school. It is not considered a benefit in kind, because the school has not employed more...

No they didn’t. BR concluded the staff travel offer in July 1995. It was so generous the unions had nothing to complain about. It preserved everything that existed at the time. The key thing was that travel facilities became a contractual right for BR employees following the 1993 act. Before...

In the 1980s BR expanded travel facilities instead of raising wages. In effect increasing staff renumeration without adding corporate cost eg salary/pension contribution, national insurance. for r ample as a D grade supervisor in 1987 my basic salary was approx £8,000 plus14 miles free...

What happened in 1995 - safeguarded status guillotine was 31 March 1996. 1739739855 It’s a way the employer can repress wages too. When I worked for BR we got 14 free miles residential. then as wages become uncompetitive in the South East of England that got increased to 49 miles in 1988.

Moderator note-split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/network-rail-corporate-travel-season-ticket.275052/ Hopefully GBR will remove all this nonsense and reinstate a national offer analogous to the safeguarded offer.That will not be a benefit in kind. As the provision of Free and...

Aren’t mice that live on the underground a distinct genetic type sub species from normal house mice. Someone must have done a PhD on it.

The act of parliament to create GBR is to vary the 1993 Act not to repeal it. One issue will be the transition and the role of open access operators. That will involve the transfer of ownership of ATOC, RSP and the other RDG legal entities. The contracts with third parties, etc. There will be...

I like the 730s. Mind you I only go from Bushey to London, and occasionally to Milton Keynes on them. I feel blessed that we will, have 5 car and 10 car trains. While Nottingham to Cardiff will just dream of that capacity.

Rail Partners is shutting down after the last of the DfT money runs out in March. RSP Ltd had the contracts for back office systems with a variety of suppliers. ATOC Ltd (different from the association), is the employer of all the RDG staff that work on RSP services and Rail staff Travel, etc...

Under the arrangements that implemented the 1993 Railways Act, RSP basically replaced BR Business systems. I expect everything that RSP does and all its contracts will be vested in GBR. After all with multiply retailers I expect they will still be a central Settlement system (Lennon) plus a...

There are lots of WebTis, (internet retailing), out there. I don’t think it would cost a huge amount to design another one from scratch. They all use the same source data from the Rail Delivery Group, who specify how the data from a sale is recorded and sent to RDGs settlement system. So its...

Didn’t British Rail and indeed the TOCs after privatisation manage this scenario in the past with services paid for by metropolitan councils, and a grant aid matrix to account for the revenue. Or am I getting memories confused? So, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire policies may have created...

interesting. It was certainly in use In the 1980s so they mitigated that issue in one way of the other.

In the old Croxley depot that maintained the Watford Euston DC fleet, there was an overhead powered trolley above each road. A unit was connected by a jumper cable to power it up. The roads were on a slight gradient, and (apparently), it was possible for depot staff to push units into the shed

Definitely Before 1995

Did they get muddled about any impacts to the St Albans Abbey branch?