riosleftsock 11:38 Wed Aug 10
Is the RMT out of control?
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First Southern, then Virgin East Coast and now Eurostar.
Will we have any trains left running this summer?
What a shower of cunts.
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stoneman
2:48 Mon Oct 3
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The trade unions are trying to flex their muscles again and its time to stamp down hard on them.
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terry-h
2:44 Mon Oct 3
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Sadiq Khan's job to deal with any tube strikes threatened surely?
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jools268
2:39 Mon Oct 3
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They are throwing their weight around all over at the moment. new tube strikes looming, southern, virgin trains etc.
May needs to stamp on these cunts as soon as possible in her kitten jackboots.
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mashed in maryland
2:35 Mon Oct 3
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https://mobile.twitter.com/SouthernRailUK/status/782827298642857984
Southern – Verified account @SouthernRailUK
Time to get back on track. Tweet @RMTunion & tell them how rail strikes make you feel. http://www.southernrailway.com/RMTStrike #SouthernBackOnTrack
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I believe the term is...
SHOTS FIRED
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Mike Oxsaw
1:45 Sat Aug 20
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overbyyer 6:55 Thu Aug 18
Makes sense, but there is a limit to lengthening platforms, especially around London. The line between Shenfield & London is having this done (for Crossrail) and it happened in the Thameslink upgrade, but I'm sure it just wasn't physically possible to stretch some platforms.
Chiltern could do their upgrade mainly because for years it was a Cinderella line (that some Tories were seriously pushing to be converted into as coach super-highway.)
I guess they could always sling new commuter routes above and along the central reservations of the country's motorways...
Get trains longer than 12/15 carriages and the walk from one end to the other alone would be a large part of some people's commute.
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stoneman
8:11 Fri Aug 19
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RMT now balloting Southern Rail ticket office workers to see if they want to strike.
They are determined to bring them down.
May needs to get tough on these cunts.
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overbyyer
7:49 Thu Aug 18
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And take down all the overhead electricity cabling and stanchions they've just fitted along the Great Western line.
The only viable way is to increase the length of trains back to their original capacities. The privatised TOC's reduced train sizes because they had to buy each and every new carriage, so they provided as few as possible.
That's why you have to stand up on trains nowadays.
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Far Cough
7:02 Thu Aug 18
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Twin deck trains won't happen unless you re-gauge all the bridges on the line
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overbyyer
6:55 Thu Aug 18
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Mike - longer platforms to take longer trains with more carriages.
Chiltern Railways did on their project Evergreen several years ago.
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Mike Oxsaw
6:08 Thu Aug 18
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It doesn't really matter who owns the railways, network capacity in and around commuter belts is reaching capacity (again) and the only options now seem to be a) provide more to meet demand & b) reduce demand to match capacity.
With regard to a), can you imagine the complete fuck-case in doubling the tracks between, say, London & Ipswich (or even London & Braintree)?
Will NEVER happen. Twin-deck trains? Will probably get poo-pooed on account of doubling the dwell time at stations as twice as many people get on & off via the same platform space.
HS2 won't help - EVER, that's a complete waste of (your) money, so that leaves forcing people OFF the railways through a policy of high prices and shit service.
All in this together, remember?
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overbyyer
1:08 Thu Aug 18
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A nationalised British Rail would be a totally different proposition to its predecessor.
The original BR operated with over capacity in terms of both routes and line access. Commuting was largely restricted to the affluent suburbs of big cities because most ordinary people worked locally. BR was also competing with road traffic with had nowhere near the amount of congestion that it now has.
If a new BR was to approach train travel as being an essential public service rather than a profit making obsession then it would be a certain success.
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wansteadman
10:08 Thu Aug 18
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I look at those types of job and look at the waiting lists to get in them that decide what the rates should be. We are massively short of bus drivers but the waiting list to get to be a fireman/woman is v long. So to me it's obvious what needs to happen.Tube and bus drivers wages used to fixed together when they split them Lo and behold tube drivers wages went through the roof and bus drivers never budged
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RM10
9:39 Thu Aug 18
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i know i get slaughtered by some about my view on what Thatcher done in the eighties compared to govts after, but this is a prime example of them very influencial years when the decisions she made all them years ago are now hitting home even now, a lot of what she done is pretty much irreversible.
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stomper
5:42 Thu Aug 18
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I thought we sorted it out in '48
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Darlo Debs
1:55 Thu Aug 18
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It would have cost a huge amount to buy those things back, even if we could have got the new owners to sell.
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ray winstone
8:14 Wed Aug 17
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Westside, they were too busy trying to rebuild our schools and hospitals after your lot had run them into the ground.
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Westside
3:49 Wed Aug 17
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sn't it great having our railways owned by companies that aren't British and have only one thing in mind, profit?
Same goes for our energy companies, great stuff this privatisation lark innit......
Then why didn't Labour sort it out in their 13 years in power?
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mashed in maryland
2:24 Wed Aug 17
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I don't give a flying fuck what you think about me, to be honest.
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Hammer and Pickle
2:22 Wed Aug 17
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mashed in maryland 1:04 Wed Aug 17
Cheers - if you think I was coming on here for marital advice well that merely confirms what a clueless, no-mark you really are.
The fact remains you know fuck all about the labour market and you spend hours on here day-in, day-out redistributing the most useless drivel from the most dodgy sources. Any rubbish will do as long as it confirms your classless pikey status be it on the migrant crisis, sexual assault with religious aspect, Brexit, Trump and now labour relations.
Fact is, you are a poisonous little shit-stirrer with clearly too much time on your hands and I really do wish you'd get a decent job.
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mashed in maryland
1:37 Wed Aug 17
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By "commuters" you will also be including everyone from CEOs living in Tunbridge Wells who come into the office in central London 2-3 days a week, as well as cleaners etc.
Why are you trying to make out that £37.5K for a 35 hour working week isn't a good deal? Its hardly poverty minimum wage levels.
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mashed in maryland
1:35 Wed Aug 17
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Yes it is.
http://www.cityam.com/206242/where-can-you-earn-most-uk-pay-london-much-higher-any-other-part-uk
"According to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the median gross annual wage for people working in inner London is £34,473 – that means half earn more than this and half earn less. The median wage for the UK as a whole is £22,044."
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