Top Train Driver

Tea Drinking, Centre-Left, ASLEF Union Rep. I post anon….social media policy!

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

I’ve been curious about the increased hostile atmosphere on this platform towards rail workers by some usual right wing media has-beens (e.g. Concrete Mike, Kelvin).

Is it because they have an agenda against unions and easy targets like railways? Yes but there’s more… 1/

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@peopledisplacer @XPowerlord_GemX @PaulJohnson65 Walter Mitty

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@XPowerlord_GemX @peopledisplacer @PaulJohnson65 Gone from a failed wannabe senior conductor to sailing around the world

Sure thing powerlord👌

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@gceccles @Captain_Deltic @railnigel @SteveWhiteRail What were the results from the Anglia pilot, Graham?

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@obioneyouknowme AI and LIDAR would register that as a shunt signal

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@Captain_Deltic @railnigel I cannot wait for this managed contract for TOCs to come to an end.

The whole ‘DfT needs to sign it off’ is nauseating. We have managers who should be making decisions like this- having to pass the buck onto someone in Whitehall.

Are these new 80x trains cleared via Settle?

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@XPowerlord_GemX @peopledisplacer @PaulJohnson65 “We run the show”

Was this the show that you tried to get into but failed to pass the managers interview stage?

Sour grapes.

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@toryboypierce Fuck the sick. Buy missiles.

Is that what you’re saying?

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@demi_irawo If we were on minimum wage, your fare would be the same.

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@RTKfarmer @UKLabour What’s the point here? Apples and pears. A farmer likely works for themselves and inherits the acres of family farm. Train Drivers work for a company as an employee.

During leaf fall, it’s more likely I’m late getting home due to the track conditions. Certainly not home early.

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

A positive note on here…

The human race and the way we innovate and break boundaries never ceases to amaze me

[Chris Bolton @CcibChris]

Separated by only 30 years. Two true beauties

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@ShruggedAslef @TSSAunion @ASLEFunion @RMTunion Correct ✅

It’s the way we do things in this country

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@lukerobertblack Shortformed train?
WiFi broken?
No working toilet?

Tory logic: “unions, labour and train drivers fault”

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@obioneyouknowme I’ve started blocking them. Harwood will probably join them but I’ll leave this here for now…

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

This appeared on my feed.

AI seems to be useful at reading and examining data then reproducing it. Pretty much replacing a lot of journalism and opinion pieces like this.

No need for AI, we’ve had automatic trains since the Victoria Line was built long before AI Tom was born.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

If we were serious about growth, we’d sack every tube and train driver in the country, replace the actual driving with AI, and hire in new people to be safety and ticket conductors on contacts from this century.

This will obviously happen eventually, why are we putting it off?

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

It’s mad high frequency bus routes like this aren’t converted into the Metrolink tram network

[BusAndTrainUser @BusAndTrainUser]

Changing colours doesn’t make buses more reliable as four buses arrive and depart Piccadilly together on route 192 just now.

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@g_gosden James Watt is a decent example of what money does to a man

Co founds a company, based on “punk”, “rebel” and “smashing the system” style values. Does well with growing the business.

Became a multimillionaire and workers who make and buy his beer are lazy. He’s lost it.

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@UU_Ess_Pee I’ve blocked him
Absolutely no reasoning with him and bored of seeing his blue tick

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@Morecambebob1 We’re ordering trains with a life span of 40 years with driving cabs

We have semaphore signalling

We have no further mainline ATO or autonomous schemes planned to enhance capacity

Twitter blue ticks will fall fowl of AI first and I’ll be retired or dead b4 mainline driverless

[Top Train Driver @toptraindriver]

@johnwarren100 @tomhfh They work because it’s built like that with the technology from scratch rather than retrofitted at great cost.

crucially, it’s a segregated railway that’s elevated away from everything so works well.