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/
@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?
@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.
@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.
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.
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?
@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.
@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
@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.