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Old 26 December 2012, 07:07 PM
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Default Trains should run over Christmas

IMHO anyway.

Trains are an essential service and should run over Christmas to allow families to travel and to make it easier for essential workers to get to work.

Agree?

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Old 26 December 2012, 07:10 PM
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It's a tough one. If they were nationalised like the NHS then yes. But as they are a profitable business it's up to them.

Had a leaflet guy dropping the local kabab shop leaflet on christmas day !!!
Old 26 December 2012, 07:27 PM
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How many people use trains normally to see their families? I drive, and if I want to see them I stay sober and take the car or get a taxi.

Remember train drivers have families too and want to spend time with them, not stuck on a train where drunken ar%eholes will probably give them grief.
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Have a look at tube drivers and their strikes over the last 3 Boxing days! Their pay and perks as it is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...18-a-year.html

Expect driverless tube trains soon and not much sympathy from the public. Also saves them from: "drunken ar%eholes" giving them grief and more time to spend with their families.
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Originally Posted by StevieL81
How many people use trains normally to see their families? I drive, and if I want to see them I stay sober and take the car or get a taxi.

Remember train drivers have families too and want to spend time with them, not stuck on a train where drunken ar%eholes will probably give them grief.
Old 26 December 2012, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by RobsyUK
It's a tough one. If they were nationalised like the NHS then yes. But as they are a profitable business it's up to them
Old 26 December 2012, 08:12 PM
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Trains or tubes?

If you're talking about the suspended services on the overground, then when would you suggest the the main engineering works are carried out?
Old 26 December 2012, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by cookstar
Trains or tubes?

If you're talking about the suspended services on the overground, then when would you suggest the the main engineering works are carried out?
Overground trains.

OK for the tracks that need work then close them as necessary but that's not the whole network obviously.

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Bit difficult at the moment anyway with the flood damage to the lines.

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Originally Posted by scoobynutta555
Have a look at tube drivers and their strikes over the last 3 Boxing days! Their pay and perks as it is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...18-a-year.html
Holy ****! I never knew Tube drivers were so well paid.
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