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After 12 weeks of industrial action, an employer may dismiss those taking part, provided that: - it dismisses all employees who have participated and it does not offer to re-engage any of those employees on selective grounds within three months of the dismissal - it can show that it has tried...

Browsing websites such as Real-Time Trains, Open Train Times and Recent Train Times (all of which use open data feeds from Network Rail) it can be seen that on many routes Doris caused significantly more cancellations than Wednesday's strike. It does not seem to be possible to gets stats from...

Is it time that the RMT calls a referendum? Do the majority of members wish to continue striking given what has happened since the original vote, nearly a year ago? Or should the RMT wait for, say, another 28 strikes before calling a referendum if agreement has still not been reached?

RMT talks to take place today, hosted by conciliation service Acas. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-38958234

Did RAIB actually investigate this incident? Like you I can not find a RAIB report published for it (either a full report or a safety disgest) and it is not in RAIB's list of ongoing investigations. Nor can I find any RAIB announcement about it published on their website. The RAIB does not...

DOO trains on HS1 have on-board managers, while in Scotland DOO trains in the Strathclyde area have ticket examiners. I think most DOO schemes were introduced without a second person from the outset.

This month’s Modern Railways states that Merseytravel says it has used the term DCO as “it wants passengers to be reassured that at many times the driver will not be the only member of staff on board”. Merseytravel is intending to operate its new rolling stock without rostering a second person...

Here is a link to the RAIB James Street report https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/410810/121127_R222012_James_Street.pdf I can not see any commendations in this report.

I am not aware of any evidence that this is “the widely held expectation of most as to what will eventually happen”. There have certainly been more forum posts stating that this is what individual forum members expect to happen than forum posts stating that this is expected not to happen...

Yesterday the Croydon Advertiser mentioned the ongoing talks and reported that "a spokesman for Southern told the Croydon Advertiser the rail company believes progress is being made" and "a spokesman for ASLEF added: '[There is] no update, no breakthrough [and] no breakdown [in the talks].'"...

The February issue of Modern Railways has an article about the new trains being built for Merseyrail, for DCO. The article says that "at the centre of the procurement process was feedback from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) following" the passenger death that occurred in the 2011...

As far as I am aware RMT’s guards strike called for next Monday (23rd) involves: (1) On Board Supervisors, a role that did not exist a year ago and most of whom were conductors this time last year (2) Conductors, i.e. those guards still on the same terms and conditions they were a year ago...

In London the Night Tube was eventually introduced using drivers recruited specifically for operating the Night Tube, rather than by using existing drivers (and increasing the number of such drivers). Arriva Trains could potentially take a similar approach and seek to operate DCO services...

Some of the RMT strikes on London Underground have been specific to individual lines, for example, the RMT driver strikes in March 2016 on the Piccadilly Line were over issues over the 1973 tube stock, which only operates on that line. Presumably this was because if the RMT had tried to include...