Are there problems getting into Manc.tomorrow via Trains ???

[denislawsbackheel]

I support the action.
They are fighting the company who are trying to get rid of guards and make them driver only trains.

Last Saturday, the first day of the action, I was coming home from Edinburgh. Heard about the action that morning so thought I’d stay on the train to its terminus at the airport and get a cab home to Poynton.
Got to the airport station and discovered that private cabs are fined £100 if they pick up at the station.
Black cabs however can pick up with impunity.
Had to walk to the Hilton to pick up my private car.
Cartel or what?
I know the airport can do what they want with their terminals but I was not an airport customer, I was a Trans Pennine customer using a Network rail station.
Letters were sent!
Still awaiting a reply.
According to Which I can claim for my taxi fare off Northern, who do pay up.

 

[mat]

There's also no trains to / from London Euston all weekend as per the last 2 weekends in connection with a junction renewal just north of Wembley. The trains operate north of Milton Keynes though.

That's fucked the rags home games....

 

[quiet_riot]

I support the action.
They are fighting the company who are trying to get rid of guards and make them driver only trains.

This.

Wanker companies who put profit before people's jobs and livelihoods are scumbags. If joe public has to suffer for a bit to help get the message across, so be it.

 

[staffsblue]

That's fucked the rags home games....

Fucked both the Spuds fans & Rags on Monday!

 

[FantasyIreland]

Merseyrail,through strike action and solidarity,have achieved their goal today and kept a second safety critical member of staff on their trains.

This is why the guards at Northern have stood on picket lines over the past 18 months,and will do so tomorrow,and again in the future......Its a fight they dont want but they have no choice.......Safety before profit!

 

[MCFCTrick]

I support the action.
They are fighting the company who are trying to get rid of guards and make them driver only trains.

I agree with this too. However, the guards don't help themselves to be seen as 'needed', not when so often they open and close the doors, but then can't be bothered coming out to sell tickets, even more so now there are ticket barriers at Piccadilly/Victoria. They announce 'A fault with the ticket machine' over the tannoy, if they bother at all .... Just giving the company ammo.

 

[mat]

I agree with this too. However, the guards don't help themselves to be seen as 'needed', not when so often they open and close the doors, but then can't be bothered coming out to sell tickets, even more so now there are ticket barriers at Piccadilly/Victoria. They announce 'A fault with the ticket machine' over the tannoy, if they bother at all .... Just giving the company ammo.

I am a guard, and former RMT rep. I try and put that statement in my colleagues head at every opportunity. I work for another TOC that trains serve Manchester and Liverpool. Last weekend was tough, I rather be out standing with my colleagues on Northern. Yet passengers travelling on my service made of point of telling me they support the fight.

Some of my colleagues think they are untouchable job wise. They are in for a very big shock. And I don't want to be the one that says I told you so.

 

[born2bblu]

It’s a normal Northern Rail service day. No trains.

Only in this country would we let a company, because they are f***ing useless, and their employees, hold train passengers to ransom. And to think, I thought it couldn’t get any worse on the trains than in the 70’s. It’ s now 2018.

Obviously you missed this one ;-)

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I was on a train from Piccadilly last Saturday and it was horrendous because it had about four trains worth of people on it. But I found the blame game to be pathetic. The person on Northern Rail's Twitter account had clearly been told to make sure they mention RMT Union in every response. Take some responsibility for your shit service ffs.

 

[MCFCTrick]

I am a guard, and former RMT rep. I try and put that statement in my colleagues head at every opportunity. I work for another TOC that trains serve Manchester and Liverpool. Last weekend was tough, I rather be out standing with my colleagues on Northern. Yet passengers travelling on my service made of point of telling me they support the fight.

Some of my colleagues think they are untouchable job wise. They are in for a very big shock. And I don't want to be the one that says I told you so.

It's silly to do I agree. Am sure like most big companies they send people to observe such behaviour, and then use it against the guards and their argument of validity.
Get out in the carriages, engage with passengers, help people who need it on and off the train etc. Get the public onside lads n' lasses.