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Presumably the longer journey time from Liverpool to Hillside will have had some impact on the number of services they can operate in comparison to Aintree, plus they're also running services between Southport and Hillside, while on Grand National Day there were buses from Ormskirk and Maghull...

It was balanced in that both sides were represented, but I thought as a PR exercise it was far more successful for Merseyrail than the RMT. The union spokesman struggled to come up with reasons why DOO was unacceptable on Merseyrail, citing the presence of level crossings on the network and then...

http://www.aslef.org.uk/article.php?group_id=5573

I thought it was 7 days notice too, however in the ongoing disputes on other TOCs, it seems to be 14 days. Merseyrail state on their Strike FAQs page, for example, that the minimum notice of strike action is 14 days. This was also the notice period given for RMT action on VTEC in the past twelve...

This was my expectation too. Merseyrail have obviously known this was coming so have had plenty of time to put contingency plans in place. The Strike FAQs on their website says that they'll publish more details in the coming days but confirms that some managers have been trained as guards...