Southern Rail STRIKE details

[Ernest]

Not quite sure this is the right thread for a question like this, but . . .

I'll be attending a wedding in Dorset the night before the Brentford game, and will need to travel to Falmer from Southampton on the day of the match. I'm aiming to catch the 10.32 West Coastway service, but in the present climate I'm afraid that it might get cancelled.

Am I right in thinking that the present emergency timetable only relates to Mon - Fri services?, and that Sat - Sun trains are as per the original full timetable?, (the Southern website isn't too clear)..

TBH weekends have been abysmal lately but now the main leave period has finished with the schools going back there should be slightly more crew available to work, but I wouldn't be certain till the wheels are rolling and you've arrived at Brighton.

 

[yxee]

But the conductors are still striking...

 

[dazzer6666]

Not quite sure this is the right thread for a question like this, but . . .

I'll be attending a wedding in Dorset the night before the Brentford game, and will need to travel to Falmer from Southampton on the day of the match. I'm aiming to catch the 10.32 West Coastway service, but in the present climate I'm afraid that it might get cancelled.

Am I right in thinking that the present emergency timetable only relates to Mon - Fri services?, and that Sat - Sun trains are as per the original full timetable?, (the Southern website isn't too clear)..

Use the Network Rail journey planner online rather than the timetable, much easier to understand...

 

[coagulantwolf]

'Southern rail co-owner Go-Ahead has reported a profit of nearly £100m and apologised for major ongoing disruptions to its railway services.

Go-Ahead's yearly profits before tax rose 26.8% to £99.8m.'

Utterly disgraceful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37253789

 

[CHAPPERS]

Sounds like they can afford plenty of guards to me.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Why were they given £20 miullion quid on taxpayers money then?

Chris Grayling needs to fix the **** up. His attack on the RMT on the local news last night was a ****ing disgrace.

 

[Deadly Danson]

Why were they given £20 miullion quid on taxpayers money then?

Chris Grayling needs to fix the **** up. His attack on the RMT on the local news last night was a ****ing disgrace.

It's so bloody depressing - if it wasn't so serious it's almost comical. They can afford not only the £20 million the government are pumping in but to employ sufficient staff to run the service properly with a guard on every train. But as Private Eye said: Guardless trains - please mind the gap between safety and profit.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Southern make a £100 million profit, yet are turning Sussex into a county with minimal rail services.

 

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

People keep going on about profit. Rail franchises are geared to show only 3% on turnover. Far less than almost every public company.

Does anyone really think that a rail journey will cost less after nationalisation when you take into the amount of the taxpayers contribution? With trains under total union control, which is what would happen, would be better?

Look at the history of British Rail.

 

[CHAPPERS]

People keep going on about profit. Rail franchises are geared to show only 3% on turnover. Far less than almost every public company.

Does anyone really think that a rail journey will cost less after nationalisation when you take into the amount of the taxpayers contribution? With trains under total union control, which is what would happen, would be better?

Look at the history of British Rail.

At least the 100 million profit might go back in to the infrastructure, not to shareholders.

 

[highflyer]

People keep going on about profit. Rail franchises are geared to show only 3% on turnover. Far less than almost every public company.

Does anyone really think that a rail journey will cost less after nationalisation when you take into the amount of the taxpayers contribution? With trains under total union control, which is what would happen, would be better?

Look at the history of British Rail.

You might want to take a look at how well East Coast performed under Government control before making such an assertion.
It's pretty obvious this governments approach to private rail ownership is based on pure ideology and they will favour the interests of capital over the interests of citizens all day long.

 

[Easy 10]

So a private company that has just announced profits of £100,000,000 is now being given £20,000,000 of public funds by the government in order to help it "get to grips" with the problems on its shambolic failing network.

How, in the name of holy FRIG, does this come even CLOSE to being justifiable ? Someone is having a laugh here.

 

[albionite]

https://www.carolinelucas.com/latest/caroline-responds-to-£20m-southern-rail-subsidy

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

So a private company that has just announced profits of £100,000,000 is now being given £20,000,000 of public funds by the government in order to help it "get to grips" with the problems on its shambolic failing network.

How, in the name of holy FRIG, does this come even CLOSE to being justifiable ? Someone is having a laugh here.

Basically the government have ****ed up and the only way to solve the problem is to throw more money at it in the hope that the "dream" works.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Maybe this might sharpen a few minds as to where to direct their anger.

 

[Doc Lynam]

Basically the government have ****ed up and the only way to solve the problem is to throw more money at it in the hope that the "dream" works.

The dream works! Look at all that lovely profit paid for by customers/ victims and tax payers. A very small and select few will have a very merry christmas!

 

[pearl]

The dream works! Look at all that lovely profit paid for by customers/ victims and tax payers. A very small and select few will have a very merry christmas!

and to really take the piss, in four months time we'll make it even more expensive to use

 

[CHAPPERS]

What, if anything, are employers doing regarding their staff turning up late/wfh more than they want to/becoming stressed?? Are they lobbying at all?

 

[highflyer]

What, if anything, are employers doing regarding their staff turning up late/wfh more than they want to/becoming stressed?? Are they lobbying at all?

Well to be fair, at our place we are mostly working from home and therefore mostly less stressed and more productive (not me so much as I am quite lazy and will do less when not being observed, and then get stressed about how little I have acheived, but I think I'm the exception)

 

[Ernest]

I'd rather the £20 million was spent on DOCTORS and get all those THOUSANDS of conductors off SICK back to work ASAP