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How come there's no major 'trackside fire' or 'buckled rail' delays when there usually is at this time of year in this neck of the woods at far lower daytime temperatures? Welcome news obviously. But how much of it is down to better trackside management and how much of it is down to fierce...

I just find it shocking that the privatised rail industry is so decrepit that it is given carte blanche by government to opt out of all applicable Disability Discrimination laws in a doomed attempt to make their crummy trains run on time. It's a state of affairs unworthy of a so-called civilised...

Only a matter of time before some bright spark in Accounts suggests the On Board Supervisor could pass down the aisles with a bin bag, same as as all the budget/charter airlines do nowadays.

I know that. You know that. We probably both paid into their funds. Still utterly shocking it should have to come to this, with every single layer of elected and unelected officialdom utterly unable or unwilling to make these c*nts provide the service that they're paid to provide and that form...

The report will doubtless see the light of day after the election, when there's no votes at stake. That's not the problem. The problem is that nobody charged with making the trains run smoothly for the greater benefit of the community and the economy will have the slightest interest in acting on...

Biggest cause of the recent improvement in rail services by a country mile was the huge dent in the parent company's share price. The RMT action is increasingly irrelevent now and I feel genuinely desperately sorry for the rank and file members being lead down into that dead end by their union...

I guess the next step is they start to whittle down the exception list to one that's only half a mile long.

Yup, utterly ridiculous, and the vote result was a foregone conclusion. Whatever were the ASLEF reps THINKING when they came away from that waste of time fortnight? How on earth could they have worked themselves up into a state of mind whereby they thought their members might possibly go for...

Hope the members will take a long hard look at the ASLEF top brass who took a whole two weeks to sell their members down the river. How long does it take to wave a white flag?

I had to be in SOGAT '82. No union membership, no job.

Can't see GTR in a million years offering RMT anything more than they offered ASLEF. In fact, GTR's whole demeanour to date suggests they regard RMT as pretty much irrelevant to their business goals. GTR are only worried about the drivers coming out on strike. That makes the national news. Not...

Won't be the government (DfT) that does it. It'll be the combined pincer movement of the National Audit Office (NAO) and the Association Of British Commuters (ABC) that finally forces these ****s hand and forces them to return to some form of public accountability While hopefully destroying...

In case anybody missed the (count 'em) EIGHT circumstances under which a train can depart without an OBS, here they are, courtesy of The Argus: http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15074412.Drivers_furious_over_deal_to_allow_trains_to_run_without_conductors/?ref=mr&lp=3 They are: - Unauthorised...

And some very nice restaurants and West End shows for the ASLEF reps and their significant others to enjoy I wouldn't wonder. ASLEF rank and file members should be demanding a full breakdown of their reps expense claims for that fortnight. Because they appear to have done **** all in relation to...

Certainly beggars belief that ASLEF representatives took a whole fortnight to roll over and have their bellies tickled by GTR. Could have wrapped the whole thing up in a couple of hours for all the concessions they've (not) won.

Good to see Southern being absolutely ****ing HAMMERED on social media today with no strike excuses to fall back on. Maybe the unions should decide to strike less often?

Seems to me that GTR are now quite happy to let the RMT strike rumble on indefinitely as it provides them with perfect cover to mask their appalling performance as a company.

Wednesday patently going to end in the traditional :flounce: by both sides then, on account of there being zero by way of common ground.

For sure. But in the end it's down to government to slap that shit down. Or openly admit they don't give a toss about the electorate and are milking the public purse to further their own personal financial agenda. Who'd have thought eh?

Just one more eunuch rail regulator milking the public purse while turning a blind eye to the criminally dangerous overcrowding of trains and platforms that the hard-working frontline staff have to deal with on a daily basis while being simultaneously abused by their employers and by their...