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Passengers braced for rail chaos (BBC News)

Rail users are set to face major disruption as London Midland cancels all but one of its Sunday services due to a lack of drivers.

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Well what an absolute shambles. Something has got to be done about the ametuar railway operators of this country today.The company involved should be given an absolute final warning by the government. The sooner the railways of this country is re-nationalised the better.Also this company has taken the name of a fine old railway name LONDON MIDLAND, well let me assure you the original LONDON MIDLAND would never treat the railway or the travelling public this way, because its staff were professional railway people from the bottom to the top, not a load of "wannabees" that work on the railway in this country today.
Totally and absolutely disgusting that is what it is.
48111 ex BR 1958 - 1991
and Aslef member

100%. Give em Hell!:mad: They keep banging on about the bad old days, but when everything was under one control, it was more accountable. I know all systems are open to abuse, but there are too many outfits out there playing at trains.:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by 48111 (Post 31774)

Couldn't agree more about the TOCS. Surely the D for T shouldn't be dishing out franchises to outfits that think they can just cancel services on a Sunday because, by their own incompetence, they have no staff to run them. They should be subjected to very severe financial penalties for not delivering the proper service for which they were contracted. If, and it's a very big if, we have a privatised railway system, the companies must be very closely controlled. For the first time, we have a Secretary of State who appears to understand what he is doing but he must get a grip and not allow these cowboys to get away with it.