Clapham Yard News Today

Cross River Rail workers were treated to a one-off performance when Darren Middleton and Ian Haug took the chance to check out its acoustics.

RMT members learned with great sadness of the untimely death on Sunday 6 April 2008 of Greg Tucker, secretary of RMT’s Waterloo branch since 1993 and of the union’s National Conference of Train Crews & Shunting Grades since 1992 (by Alex Gordon from the Bristol RMT website). Greg had suffered a malignant throat cancer diagnosed over a year ago and was admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital on Saturday afternoon where he died some hours later.

Queensland’s Coordinator-General has allowed soil from the underground Cross River Rail project to be driven through the CBD on Sundays, despite Brisbane City Council’s objections.