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Post by LetchworthShrew on Sept 21, 2020 10:49:10 GMT 1
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Post by Pilch on Sept 21, 2020 11:00:47 GMT 1
about time too, check aout the amount of subsidies they all had, i did see a list of the figures once when i worked for network rail, it was unreal, the gov are as good as paying them to run it so might as well pull the plug and take it all back
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Sept 21, 2020 11:02:37 GMT 1
Strange times, we have a right wing government acting in a way Jeremy would approve of. Nationalisation, subsidies for industries and centralised control.
Dido Harding knows nothing about railways, so an ideal head of the new nationalised network.
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Post by staffordshrew on Sept 21, 2020 11:08:42 GMT 1
British Rail rises from the ashes?
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Post by Pilch on Sept 21, 2020 11:16:03 GMT 1
British Rail rises from the ashes? who will the gov employ to advertise for them ?
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Post by staffordshrew on Sept 21, 2020 11:23:50 GMT 1
British Rail rises from the ashes? who will the gov employ to advertise for them ? Charlie Elphicke?
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Post by Pilch on Sept 21, 2020 11:28:31 GMT 1
who will the gov employ to advertise for them ? Charlie Elphicke?
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Post by zenfootball2 on Sept 21, 2020 12:41:58 GMT 1
my mate used to be train driver down south he told me the amount of money the mainly foreign owned companies made was staggering they saw them as a private printing press whilst often giving a rubbish sservice.prior to covid-19 i would use the trains a lot and i knew they were poor but i traveled across Austria by rail and that brought home to my how used i had got to very poor the private rail companies are.
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Post by Pilch on Sept 21, 2020 13:10:36 GMT 1
my mate used to be train driver down south he told me the amount of money the mainly foreign owned companies made was staggering they saw them as a private printing press whilst often giving a rubbish sservice.prior to covid-19 i would use the trains a lot and i knew they were poor but i traveled across Austria by rail and that brought home to my how used i had got to very poor the private rail companies are. i worked for BR when they became privatized and i could have gone many different ways, i chose the wrong way, Railtrack who went bust and became Network Rail, basically Network Rail/Railtrack own everything on the railway that doesnt move,( buildings, tracks, signals etc) and with no competition the wage structure moved slowly, the train companies however almost tripled wages in no time as staff were hopping from one company to another getting higher wage offers to do so
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Post by neilsalop on Sept 21, 2020 13:46:22 GMT 1
Abellio Transport Group Limited = Dutch state owned transport compnay Arriva UK Trains Limited = owned by German state railway Deutsche Bahn
East Japan Railway Company and Mitsui & Company Limited (Consortium) = speaks for itself Keolis (UK) Limited = owned by SNCF and a Canadian pensions and investment company
Metroline Rail Limited = owned by ComfortDelGro Corporation a multi-national transport consortium based in Singapore
MTR Corporation (UK) Limited = Chinese state owned transport corporation based in Hong Kong
Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori SpA (NTV) = Italian rail company
Renfe Viajeros Sociedad Mercantil Estatal SA = Spanish rail company
SNCF C3 = French state railway
Transdev Plc = French transport company
Trenitalia SpA= Italian state railway
It's funny that French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Chinese state railways are fine to run our trains, but any thought of our own country having a state run rail company is compared to communism by certain people.
BR was far from perfect, but at least any cost to the exchequer wasn't filtered off to subsidise the prices of train travel in other countries.
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Post by gainsparkshrew on Sept 21, 2020 13:57:53 GMT 1
Me too...I started as an MS1 sales manager for Red Star Parcels based at Wolverhampton and a voluntary redundancy package as MS5 Retail and Sales Manager for Cross Country Trains,10 years later, when Virgin bought them out and merged them with their West Coast franchise. Politically I was always against any form of privatisation but I have to shamelessly accept that I advantage of the situation to make as much money in as short a time as possible before leaving the rail industry
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Post by zenfootball2 on Sept 21, 2020 16:55:01 GMT 1
my mate used to be train driver down south he told me the amount of money the mainly foreign owned companies made was staggering they saw them as a private printing press whilst often giving a rubbish sservice.prior to covid-19 i would use the trains a lot and i knew they were poor but i traveled across Austria by rail and that brought home to my how used i had got to very poor the private rail companies are. i worked for BR when they became privatized and i could have gone many different ways, i chose the wrong way, Railtrack who went bust and became Network Rail, basically Network Rail/Railtrack own everything on the railway that doesnt move,( buildings, tracks, signals etc) and with no competition the wage structure moved slowly, the train companies however almost tripled wages in no time as staff were hopping from one company to another getting higher wage offers to do so so good for staff which i am glad to hear as that was not always the case with privatized companies but in my experience not so good for customers.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Sept 21, 2020 16:56:57 GMT 1
Me too...I started as an MS1 sales manager for Red Star Parcels based at Wolverhampton and a voluntary redundancy package as MS5 Retail and Sales Manager for Cross Country Trains,10 years later, when Virgin bought them out and merged them with their West Coast franchise. Politically I was always against any form of privatisation but I have to shamelessly accept that I advantage of the situation to make as much money in as short a time as possible before leaving the rail industry anyone would do the same
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Post by staffordshrew on Sept 21, 2020 20:35:03 GMT 1
Me too...I started as an MS1 sales manager for Red Star Parcels based at Wolverhampton and a voluntary redundancy package as MS5 Retail and Sales Manager for Cross Country Trains,10 years later, when Virgin bought them out and merged them with their West Coast franchise. Politically I was always against any form of privatisation but I have to shamelessly accept that I advantage of the situation to make as much money in as short a time as possible before leaving the rail industry anyone would do the same 'Tis the duty of the proletariat to screw every penny they can out of the capitalist bourgeoisie before they screw you.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Sept 22, 2020 11:45:10 GMT 1
'Tis the duty of the proletariat to screw every penny they can out of the capitalist bourgeoisie before they screw you.
i think you have been reading to much of Mao's red book
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Post by servernaside on Sept 28, 2020 18:21:03 GMT 1
British Rail rises from the ashes? Let's hope not.
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