On Fri, 27 May 2016 16:05:11 +0100
Paul Corfield wrote:
LOROL negotiated the removal of guards from several London Overground
services without strike action. Therefore things can be sorted with
the unions without the trains stopping running.

I guess we'll soon find out.

help them weather the industrial dispute. While you'd undoubtedly
love to see the unions destroyed I don't think it is the place of

Only the rail unions. They've proven numerous times that they're dinosaurs
whose sole purpose seems to be to block any change and blackmail operators
over pay.

On a more serious point growth on the TSGN network is at a very high
rate. There are long standing concerns about the effects of
overcrowding on trains and platforms and how the TOCs / Network Rail

Well if you add 2 carraiges there'll be less overcrowding on board.

in the face of huge overcrowding. I saw a photo the other day of the
in cab monitor display on a TSGN train which basically showed misty
images on each monitor. That's unacceptable and not safe. If that

Misty images would be dangerous on any train regardless of its length.

ASLEF to be in dispute at the same company these days. That they are
at TSGN suggests something is very seriously amiss. Oh and the

Tbh if you believed everything the unions said you'd think LU management
(for example) were spawn of the devil. You can only cry wolf so often before
you just become background noise and people stop listening.

passengers seem to hate TSGN's management with a passion.

I don't think anyone is happy with any TOCs in this country frankly.

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Spud