Rail union condemns NSW gov't shutdown of network
The Rail, Tram and Bus Union described the NSW government’s unilateral shut-down of the Sydney train network on February 21 as “a huge dummy spit”. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The Rail, Tram and Bus Union described the NSW government’s unilateral shut-down of the Sydney train network on February 21 as “a huge dummy spit”. Jim McIlroy reports.
That is 500 people. many of these are train crew. that leads to these operational numbers we have seen due to record numbers of covid cases. 20,000 covid cases in scotland, just yesterday, the highest on record. with the new reduced timetable, can you guarantee passengers that those trains will show up? we can guarantee this timetable will be more reliable than the one we have been trying to operate for the last couple of weeks, and we have seen the benefit already this morning — better service reliability, fewer cancellations compared to recent weeks. it is a very dynamic situation, you are...
Changed, the tone of conversation changed, the tone of conversation changed and it was in that room that first night that they assaulted me. more now on the staff shortages in the uk with many companies continuing to be affected by covid and self—isolation. earlier i spoke to alex hynes, the managing director of scotrail which is introducing a 8% reduction to services today. i asked him how this will affect consumers. on a typical day we operate around 2,000 services in scotrail, from today we are reducing our timetable by about 160 services a day so we can improve reliability of the service...
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Seen a storm like this. train services suffered major disruption. lner, which runs routes from london's kings cross to aberdeen and inverness, said on friday evening its trains would not be going beyond newcastle. and they advised customers not to travel until monday, with weekend tickets valid until wednesday. so my friends and i got on this train at elgin at about 3:30pm yesterday afternoon, on friday. we've been parked at huntly station since about 4:30pm, and it's now 5:00am, so i've been on the train about 14 hours. and neither us nor the train crew have any idea when we're likely to get ...