Do you support the RMT?

Zubrman said:
Spotter!!
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It was a great idea. Many individual parts were common to engines of all sizes so stocks of spares could be limited. Most steam drivers could drive any steam engine anyway, but having controls standardised aided familiarity.

The only problem was that railways elsewhere were already giving up on steam and so many of these engines got scrapped while relatively new.

Then many of these got saved for preserved railways, most from Woodham's scrapyard.

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Semper aggressus said:
You must be joking, too much like hard work for me. I retired in my 40s!
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Train driving isn’t hard work; absolute doddle- no left / right turns, no reverse; paid a shedload; no working Christmas day, double bubble Sundays; unionised up to the hilt so all members get best deal available; piece of piss.
 
johnnytapia said:
Train driving isn’t hard work; absolute doddle- no left / right turns, no reverse; paid a shedload; no working Christmas day, double bubble Sundays; unionised up to the hilt so all members get best deal available; piece of piss.
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Thank you Mr Harper, we've heard enough of your lies.
 
johnnytapia said:
Train driving isn’t hard work; absolute doddle- no left / right turns, no reverse; paid a shedload; no working Christmas day, double bubble Sundays; unionised up to the hilt so all members get best deal available; piece of piss.
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Similar to pilots really. The planes do all the work…

You pay these people for the moments where things go wrong.
 
bluethrunthru said:
How novel - it goes tits up and someone at the top accepts responsibility and resigns. Can't see it catching on though.

www.bbc.co.uk

Network Rail manager for stranded passenger line quits

Passengers were stuck in cold and dark carriages recently after overhead electric cables were damaged.
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It didnt help that her boss, the Network Rail MD Andrew Haines, was on one of the trains that got caught up in the delays that day. Jumped before pushed springs to mind
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Similar to pilots really. The planes do all the work…

You pay these people for the moments where things go wrong.
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Correct. Although pilots are chronically underpaid compared to train drivers when considering the levels of training, costs of training, and levels of responbsibility when things do go wrong. Esepcially the wages at the budget airlines. Long haul not so much, especially in the middle east.
Being on the ground in machine that does all the work is by far preferable to being in a pressurised flying tube thousands of feet in the air when something goes wrong...
 
Zaba's Busted Nose said:
Correct. Although pilots are chronically underpaid compared to train drivers when considering the levels of training, costs of training, and levels of responbsibility when things do go wrong. Esepcially the wages at the budget airlines. Long haul not so much, especially in the middle east.
Being on the ground in machine that does all the work is by far preferable to being in a pressurised flying tube thousands of feet in the air when something goes wrong...
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The machine does not do all the work. A popular misconception. Any fuckwit can make it go, but it takes a shit ton of training to know how, when and where to stop the bastard. But I will admit that when things do go wrong, we have considerably less distance to plummet.
 
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