There's something I don't understand and I've never seen explained.
If Southern are claiming that who closes the doors is such a minor matter, then why are they insisting on the driver doing it? If there's a conductor on board, why shouldn't they be allowed to do it?
Nothing I've seen, read or heard from the train companies suggests that they want the strike sorted. It just helps them divest themselves of a very troublesome franchise, which is what they want. But the government doesn't, because it will mean that their precious privatisation model has failed...
Sincere apologies if this is old news - I can't go back through 180 pages - but a family member who works for a company that has dealings with Govia believes that they have tried to divest themselves of the Southern and Thameslink franchises on four separate occasions on the grounds that they...
Diane Crowther, GTR Chief Operating Officer, was as evasive as any politician, routinely answering a different question from the one that was asked. Essentially she admitted that they had lied about the reasons for cancellations, although I don't think she realised she had done so.
She also...