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The capacity needs to be increased significantly (many lines are at or close to capacity and even ERTMS is not going to provide the increases needed) otherwise fares will continue to rise. Demand is outstripping supply and fuel continues to rise. Look, I do agree we are in a very surreal...

Yes there are indeed 30% of the drivers who are happy with their lot and voted against the strike. However if you gave them the role of sharing your cab for ridiculously long shifts knowing you would be paid £10k less than them when you passed out I suspect they might have something to say...

Captain Speaking you are again not listening. I didn't say that I expected above inflation rises or even inflationary rises. Where did I say that? I said that we HADN'T had them. I said that because despite continually pointing out we are not being greedy, do not expect above inflationary...

Again this is all really pointless. If the company were to recruit hundreds of drivers they would need the cooperation of the existing staff to do route knowledge and the 225 hours supervised hours needed. The ATW network is never going to be closed down forever either, certainly not just over...

The company could, in theory, implement the Sunday working commitment without agreement. It could also in theory recruit hundreds of train drivers on a reduced salary. The problem then is you'd have many months whilst training them and complete chaos in the meantime. Subsequently you'd have...

I expect drivers to cross an RMT guards picket line and vice versa. If no trains are running then we want the grades that are not in dispute to report and get paid. It's not as if the drivers are going to go and work trains as guards or vice versa but if that was the case then fair enough I...

The previous Sunday action has been drivers choosing to throw in their overtime Sundays. This time the union are telling members not to book on for any overtime, including Sundays. That is the big difference between previous (what the company labelled as 'Unofficial industrial action' but was...

So much 'if' 'if' 'if' throughout this thread. If it was an open Market. It isn't and never will be unless we have 10 sets of running lines open to all, paid for by? If drivers were paid the same as bus drivers.. They aren't and the only way they will be would see such reform that we'd see...

So what happens when the electronic system fails? ERTMS is coming in on the Cambrian. All that does is augment route knowledge, not replace it.

We've had a few at our depot. The worst ones are the ones where they didn't intend to do it - other depots (but on a nearby line) had a girl mucking about on the line whose shoe got stuck, another one where an elderly gentleman was I believe walking his dog ended up injured on the line, struck...

I will keep saying it until you listen. We haven't had a rise since 2009. We arent after above inflation rises. Drivers are in dispute over enforced Sunday working rather than a constructive way forward to cover the work amicably. All this talk of widgets and economics is therefore...

I think rather than lecture me on widgets, you should have a look and see where the money spent on the railways really goes. It might really surprise you! Fares rose between 6-10% this year and similar last year. Yet the drivers and conductors haven't had a pay rise since June 2009. Have a...

Why do all pay rises depend on productivity? Prices of things go up every year, the wages of many people also go up over the years. If the only way of getting a rise (and I'm talking cost of living, I'm not one who believes we should all have a greater than costof living increase) is to sell...

Thanks Bob

So you ban them from getting on because they are chanting? Who exactly should do this? Otherwise once on what is the train manager supposed to do? Kick them off single handedly for being noisy? Sometimes you have to manage the situation by living and letting live and 'managing' the situation...

I have never been on strike in my life and I still hope we don't have to. It's a last resort action when the company is bullying and refusing to look at workable nil cost alternatives. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- [insult removed] --- old post above --- --- new post below ---...

It's often the way of those who are in the wrong to say 'it was a joke'. I have a SOH but reserve it for things that are funny. I'm sorry I confused your statement about £50k a year being about ATW train drivers. It may be because the thread is about the ATW strike and ATW drivers striking...

That isn't how the UK economy works though. In some areas it does and look what happens? Luckily in many others it isn't all down to price. I say luckily because very often it is the cost cutting that leads to accidents. Railway staff are highly trained and meet high standards. I have...

Yes but the point is you are saying people who are unemployed would do the job for little more than minimum wage. So if anyone in a job paying more than minimum wages doesn't like any change to their pay or conditions then they should get out and someone would be happy to do it for peanuts...

A job is not a right, correct. However, we do not all sink to the lowest wage and the worst conditions of the lowest paid worker just because 2.5m are unemployed. The company is not struggling to pay the wages or making anywhere near a loss. Why then should the staff take a cut in conditions...