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Agree on the 3 plus 2 seats on the 720- absolutely awful and waste of space and money. I travelled on a 720 peak service before Xmas - I normally try to avoid them and from where I was on the train (middle coach- standing) I could see virtually the whole length of the train. Hardly any of the...

Attitudes to women workers was still behind the times long after WW2, and arguably there is still progress to be done. A couple of years ago I found a Ladybird book in a secondhand bookshop entitled 'People who work on the Railways' from 1972. Judging by the illustrations, It would appear that...

The more and more I hear, both from within the industry and outside is leading me to worry that this whole GBR thing is going to be a complete disaster.

I fear this is only the beginning, waiting with baited breath for the next round of pay talks given what's just been offered to the public sector.

I wish you'd told me that 45 years ago. Do you think if I write to Nestle now I'll get my money back?

Can't say I ever saw one....but I do remember those awful Nestle chocolate machines that the drawers refused to open on after you'd put your 10p in.

Interesting article yesterday in the Daily Telegraph along the lines of Hendy admits nationalising the railway will 'probably' add around 15bn to the national debt.

I give GBR about 2-3 years until the Government (and country's) money runs out....... Then we'll have another review

Here comes the 'Don't give a Damn Railway'. Can't wait.

How did you film one of my team meetings?

I thought it was a documentary.

A full Railway pension plus state pension will easily put you in the bracket for income tax. Assuming that tax brackets don't change conceivably into the 40% bracket. Also rumours that there are plans to tax the (currently) tax free lump sum on retirement.

But with a generous railway pension, if they bring in means testing for the state pension I'd be very surprised if you see much of the state pension.

I shouldn't get too excited about payrises- with the forthcoming raids on pensions and probably means testing for the state pension we're all probably going to be worse off in the long run.

Don't worry everyone, our new Rail Minister and GBR will have it all sorted out in a jiffy.

Do OLR/GBR/GSWR have the resource, structure and organisation to take all these TOCs on? 1720350534 Or GDGADR?

The Norwich/Great Yarmouth trains on Fridays and Saturdays can produce some interesting combinations of luggage and customers!

If the recent number of NR related incidents on Anglia is anything to go by..........yes

No opinion either way, as I said in my original post I hope they do their sums right!

I don't think nationalisation would solve the industries problems. Whether under public ownership or what we have now it will still require a significant input of public money to keep going. Unless of course they are happy to let the Railway continue to drain public money. Arguably there are...