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Tell me then with a calmer head, how you would deal with all the companies (along with the backing of so called independent bodies and government quangos) proposing to replace or get rid of the grade of guard? I keep hearing people saying the RMT should concentrate on looking after their...

Well what a turnaround for we are now talking about drivers losing jobs rather then guards. I knew it would come to this, they got rid of my job and now they are coming for yours. So being a driver isnt the be all and end all.

That is very true, something must of taken place. If a major incident was to have taken place the company will always of had it covered because they will make sure that every single person trained or otherwise will of had to sign a declaration that they are competent to carry out the task at...

1. What i find ludicrous and insulting is your happiness and those of others to see people out of work and boast about is quite sickening. 2. As stated above i have no evidence. 3. I am not a member of any political party so you explain to me what a momentum handbook is. Do they even have one...

Where are peoples sense of humour? Like a lot of people who contribute on this forum No i cant, does that make me any different to them? I dont call them out when they say I never ever see a Guard whenever they are on a train. I dont call them out when they say unfounded comments about the...

And i couldn't agree more, however it shouldn't be at the behest of staff in other grades and other unions. If the company want to introduce Guardless trains both unions should be involved and each union should should stick to representing their own members and not try a bit of one upmanship...

How water tight is that guarantee you mention? oh person hasnt turned up, ok run. Person is running late, ok run. There is a vacancy that we cant fill, ok run. All the company have to say to the driver is use one of the reasons to run without this person by control and the train will run, so...

GA will have done absolutely nothing to gain approval, apart from saying to the government body 'look we have some of our staff on strike and we need to get round it' the government body ie the ORR will say ok just dont screw up like you did the other day, otherwise everything is fine.

Sorry to digress a bit, but staff on Arriva Trains Wales received their survey today, i could not answer the questions as they mostly talked about the future of the company! I put 'Sorry i could answer the questions as Arriva Trains Wales has no future and within a year they would cease to exist'.

Applies to anyone when not in power, take London Underground ticket offices when in opposition Boris Johnson said he would make sure NO ticket offices would close if he was elected (which to many is a vote winner). What happened when he was in power he CLOSED every single London Underground...

I dont think Kings Cross had a churchyard sidings (although i stand to be corrected), i know St Pancras had one named so after the sidings were laid out behind St Pancras church.

Ok, i think i know what you mean now, it is like the push buttons on the end of every class 313 (sorry its a poor analogy, but these are the only units i worked on that could isolate one coach at a time). I have never heard of that saying though, must be a southern thing.

Come on keep up at the back, The days of porters are long gone, i even think BR started to get rid of them and i am most certainly sure no modern day railway company has any, i know the company i am employed by dont have them.

That then begs the question what do they actually do then? bearing in mind what others have said about the cost of employing staff in these days of austerity and the fact that these staff are to all intents and purposes non essential to the running of the railway. The railways of today are not...

Train was moved last night with the affected wheel set skated at 10mph to Margam.

I think the appointment of TJ as MD i am inclined to think Keolis will get the keys. Especially as he came from a Keolis group company.

I wouldn't say it was good news for Wales, certainly not for the staff anyway. I would say it was good news for my colleagues at London Midland they have certainly been happy since he moved. What we do know is that the staff on ATW are venturing into the unknown. The passengers may very be glad...

Central Trains were run into the ground by that well known coach company National Express, Arriva have never been involved with them.

Keolis, Abellio & MTR ! and you say Arriva do a 'lackadasical half job, irony if ever was one. Keolis 35% ownership of Govia hmmmm the less said about them the better. They also have never run a company on the railway in its own right! MTR well their part in the UK rail industry has seen...

A letter from Tom Joyner MD ATW.