HawkTheSeagull
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No trains Three Bridges and Brighton/Lewes at present, overrunning work at Haywards Heath. Buses being arranged and tickets accepted on other routes.
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Train Disruption (29/9)
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****ing joke. Wouldn't happen in Germany.
Vegas Seagull
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- Jul 10, 2009
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'Overrunning' all too easy excuse, far too vague' ' 'incompetent management of work'..where can we see exactly what the issue is and who will be disciplined/ sacked?
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
There are trains advertised as running from Shoreham to London
grummitts gloves
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6.39 just left Hassocks at 6.45, so seem to be ok at the moment.
mikeyjh
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I'm not sure if you're joking, German train reliability is a bit of a myth, isn't it?
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
Jesus. Not another one.
HawkTheSeagull
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Lines reopened just after 6AM, major disruption to Thameslink though due to a person hit by a train between London and St Albans.
Buzzer
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- Oct 1, 2006
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It might yet. Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research and Government adviser has a few choice things to say: crumbling economy...infrastructure becoming obsolete...companies preferring to invest abroad...loyalty to German own brands evaporating....and a damning article from Der Spiegel has this little nugget that you might find interesting:
"The German economy has shied away from investment for years. Companies have almost €500 billion stashed in savings, according to the DIW president's estimates, and yet the investment ratio in the German private economy fell from just under 21 percent in 2000 to a little more than 17 percent in 2013. Many economists conclude that companies are anxious because they are worried not just about crumbling roads, but about the lack of qualified workers, the state of the euro zone and rising energy costs. And this fear, in turn, is stymying the planning for Germany's future.
The consequences are dramatic. When adjusted for inflation, many businesses have actually decreased their spending on machinery and computers in the last decades, according to the figures from the Federal Statistical Office. This is especially true of the chemical industry, but industrial infrastructure is also crumbling in, for example, the mechanical engineering and electronics sectors. But companies haven't stopped investing altogether -- they are simply no longer investing in Germany."
By the way, he's got a new book out called "Der Deutschland Illusion". It sounds like it might be right up your street.
He's sounding off in The Economist too.
http://www.economist.com/news/europ...me-they-can-just-do-more-same-three-illusions
Sounds an interesting book
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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Ouch! Just read that, thanks for the link.
- The jobs miracle was achieved in large part by creating lots of part-time and “precarious” jobs.
- Export success came not from greater productivity but from holding down wages.
- credit for closing the budget deficit goes mainly to big tax receipts that came with high employment.
And Merkel appears rightly worried about the lack of investment if this snapshot is anything to go by
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Wouldn't worry about him as he is a broken record
And here's the book - looks like a light read
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Die-Deutsch...=1411980282&sr=1-1&keywords=Marcel+Fratzscher
Interesting to see that the UK isn't doing too poorly in government investment but that remark about the creation of part-time jobs must resonate with Osborne too
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Die-Deutsch...=1411980282&sr=1-1&keywords=Marcel+Fratzscher
Interesting to see that the UK isn't doing too poorly in government investment but that remark about the creation of part-time jobs must resonate with Osborne too
Buzzer
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- Oct 1, 2006
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It's slightly worrying that we're still under the EU average but I think I'm right in stating that we have a far more service industry driven economy than any other EU country and consequently needs less investment than a production-driven one such as Germany or Portugal. Agree with you about precarious job creation though, the national disgrace that is zero-hour contract being just about the worst abuse.
My train to London from North Wales is now two hours late meaning I have had to cancel one meeting and put back a second one. Happy Days.