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At my TOC RDW agreements are usually 6 to 12 months, the agreement allows the company to plan for training in exchange for guaranteing a certain number of drivers a lieu day off on any given day. (we get 7 lieu days which are days off in lieu of bank holidays we don't get bank holidays off they...

I am a trian driver & April 14th is my Birthday so double celebration for me :D

No problem.. "Link" is just a word that is Interchangeable with "Roster" it's an historic word from times gone by , I don't know the origin it's always been used. The Link is basically a list of drivers and what they are doing each day for example (Diagram No./Spare/Free day). Links will have a...

A rough explanation, with a driver bias as I am a driver and for my TOC, other TOCs may do things differently but are largely the same..... The train services that are required to run results in a Working Timetable WTT. TOC Train planning departments will produce a set of diagrams based on the...

You do know that rolling stock have a diagram too? and that it's not just drivers rosters that can't be switched about on a whim? There's the emergency working timetable, the published timetable, drivers diagrams too (diagrams as apposed to rosters) and don't forget the conductors diagrams. You...

The call to the signaller would have prompted the signaller to issue and an "emergency stop" via the GSMR radio to all trains in the area, all trains receiving the "emergency stop" alarm would make an immediate emergency stop, confirm they have stopped via a button on the GSMR radio and then not...

RDW agreements...so much ire These agreements are mutually beneficial for both TOC & Drivers, the details may differ TOC by TOC but ingeneral..... The TOC benefits as it is able to release Driving instructors and trainees because with a RDW agreement there are staff volunteering to cover the...

You are absolutely right, TOCs lose control of their service in the way you describe, yet when a TOC is on top of numbers it it to is also criticised for being over established as GA is on this very thread. If only the ASLEF & TOCs were run by the experts on the forum here the railway would be...

So there are three types of Sunday working, there are no issues with Sundays in the majority of TOCs. 1. Sundays in the working week. Train crew work Sundays as a matter of course but they will have a day off during the week in lieu of the Sunday worked. Nothing Archaic to see here. Sunday...

Please expand on the "Archaic working practices" that concern you, perhaps we can explain the whys and wherefores of these practices or dismiss them as not based on facts.

Excellent post... I recommend reading "The Clapham Train Accident: Causes, Context and the Corporate Memory Challenge" by Greg Morse. This book looks at The Clapham, Potters Bar & Hatfield crashes and how the changes in corporate structure, drive to reduce costs, reorganisation, loss of...

You are wholly incorrect as ASLEF reps did negotiate with their respective TOCs in the usual way for the 2022 pay claim. The TOCs however were unable to negotiate on pay increase and other matters at these talks due to the terms of the National Rail Contrats they were and still are operating...

To move to Sundays in the working week from committed or voluntary working is not a simple matter. Train crew presently working a 4 day week Monday to Saturday (To clarify for Harper this actually being 5 days work compressed into 4 days) that start a new arrangement of Sundays in the Working...

Sick pay. It is in most companies interest to retain highly trained and experienced staff over medium/long term sickness. In simple terms it is cheaper to pay the sick pay than to recruit and train a replacement. It's in the companies financial interest to have a decent sick pay scheme. Depot...

I wonder what industry the author of this quote works or has worked in? is it an industry that has increased costs due to inflation and paying staff payrise? Does that industry not also pass those costs on to it's customers? Did they sweeten the dial by making the product or service better? I...

Building a 225mph shuttle between old oak common and Birmingham Curzon Street

I hope that ASLEF get the message across to the media loud and clear that the additional 5 dates of action is a direct response to LNER invoking MSL and let it be a warning to other TOCs too

Train driving is not an emergency service, who over suggested it was! Train driving is a "keeping people safe and alive" industry as every hour of every shift a train driver is keeping 10s, 100s or thousands of passengers alive and uninjured by doing their job to some of the highest safety...

I get your point too, but train planners produce diagrams for train crew they don't produce rosters, In my TOC the local union reps check all diagrams produced by train planning to ensure they are "legal" with respect to T&C's and then produce the rosters which are then agreed with management...

7 days notice for a work order, Notice of strike called on 21st or 22nd Dec for action on 4th or 5th Jan mean work notices issued on 28th or 29th December, meaning train planners, & operations managemet who would not normally be working over Christmas having to work all over Christmas to get...