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No - it will bring industrial relations chaos to the railway and in any event the infrastructure to run DOO is not in place for non-DOO services (and that includes on the rolling stock)
CCF (and its replacement TMV) will get design updates to match infrastructure and signalling changes as part of projects and will be commissioned in line with the commissioning dates of those projects
You are correct that there are 9 identified public holidays in Scotland, employers are allowed to use statutory days off as that public holiday. The statutory number of days off is 28 days in the UK which means 9 of them can be allocated to public holidays and 19 of them can be allocated as...
GSM-R is made up of a number of sub-systems and if the main problem was affecting registrations then it is likely to be the Fixed Terminal System (FTS) part of GSM-R that went down. The FTS aggregates the TD information and routes calls from the trainborne mobile to the correct signaller Dicora
Well no
Passengers who cannot travel earlier are getting refunds, passengers who can travel will be getting the best chance of getting to their destination safely. As for staff, CS clearly have that in hand otherwise they would not have announced the change to the public.
These might help
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/our-history/where-to-find-railway-records/
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/our-history/the-network-rail-archive/
I have travelled in the Strathclyde area (commuting for work and leisure) for over 30 years now, all of them on DOO services and they have been perfectly safe
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