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RMT responds to reports of a 10% cut to autumn timetable services across Britain's railways
"Plans to slash the autumn timetable by ten per cent across the board would be a retrograde and damaging step that flies in the face of the Government plans to get Britain back to work. "RMT is demanding full restoration...
Region: National
Tagged with: Rail, timetable, cut
RMT on rail timetable plans for May
"There is a serious danger of the chaos of last May being repeated on Britain's railways if the train companies don't stop their corner-cutting. You cannot run a railway on a wing and a prayer without adequate provision for both...
Region: National
Tagged with: rail delivery group, rdg, chris grayling, dft, department for transport, rail privatisation, rail timetable
RMT warns of more fragmentation and profiteering
Rail union RMT warned today of even more fragmentation and profiteering on Britain's broken rail system as the Office of Road and Rail unveils plans to open the door to more "open-access" cherry-picking on lucrative routes by private companies looking...
Region: National
Tagged with: office of rail and road, orr, chris grayling, tory government, rail privatisation, timetables, arriva, arriva rail north, gtr
RMT calls for Northern to be stripped of franchise
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said; "Yet again today services on Arriva Rail North have been reduced to chaos as this basket case franchise lurches from crisis to crisis. Northern have chosen to declare war on their passengers and staff...
Region: North West
Tagged with: northern, northern rail, arriva rail north, arn, timetable chaos
RMT accuses GTR of playing for time over timetable chaos
RAIL UNION RMT has accused basket-case private rail operator GTR of "playing for time and treating passengers and staff like a bunch of mugs" as the company produced a well-resourced barrage of propaganda and excuses yesterday evening and this morning...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: gtr, southern, southern rail, thameslink, rail delivery group, rdg, dda, disabled access, guards, conductors, timetable chaos
One in five GTR and Northern Rail trains late or cancelled
RAIL UNION RMT today repeated the call for both Govia Thameslink and Arriva Rail North to be stripped of their franchises as this morning’s performance measures show that one in five trains are still being delayed or cancelled – despite...
Region: National
Tagged with: gtr, southern, southern rail, thameslink, arriva rail northern, northern, northern rail, rail timetable,
RMT challenges Grayling to meet staff
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said; "The total chaos unleashed by Chris Grayling on our railways has left staff at the sharp end abandoned to their fate by his private train operators. I am ‎challenging the transport secretary to come...
Region: National
Tagged with: office of rail and road, orr, chris grayling, tory government, rail privatisation, timetables, arriva, arriva rail north, gtr
RMT demands that Northern and GTR be stripped of franchises
General Secretary Mick Cash said; "From the feedback on the ground and the stream of comments on social media it is clear that the so-called emergency timetables on both Northern and GTR have just piled failure onto failure. Once again...
Region: National
Tagged with: Northern, GTR, Timetable, Franchise
RMT CONFIRMS TWO 24 HOURS STRIKES ON JUBILEE LINE
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that drivers on the Jubilee Line will be taking two days of strike action as planned from this week over the imposition of new timetables that ride roughshod over current rostering agreements.   RMT officials...
Region: National
Tagged with: Jubilee Line, Timetable, Strike
Grayling and train company bosses should come out of hiding
General Secretary Mick Cash said; "‎It is absolutely disgusting that those responsible for the carnage on out railways over the past twelve days - Chris Grayling and his private train company bosses - have dived for cover rather than face the passengers...
Region: National
Tagged with: Grayling, timetables, staff shortages
RMT ramps up calls for Grayling to go
Rail union RMT today ramped up the call for Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to resign, warning that if the current crisis engulfing huge swathes of Britain's railways isn't tackled as a matter of urgency it will leave a trail of...
Region: National
Tagged with: Grayling, timetables, staff shortages
RMT demands action as threats to staff escalate on GTR
RAIL UNION RMT today demanded urgent action from the safety regulator, the ORR (Office of Road and Rail), the company and British Transport Police as staff report an escalation in passenger anger, abuse and threats as the GTR timetable chaos...
Region: National
Tagged with: gtr, timetable
"Meltdown Monday"
RMT says that "Meltdown Monday" should spell the end of the privatised chaos on Britain's railways General Secretary Mick Cash said; "The union is picking up reports from both Northern and GTR of a hopeless lack of planning, combined with...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: southern, southern rail, gtr, thameslink, great northern, govia, govia thameslink railway, disabled passengers, timetable
Severe disruption from new timetable on basket-case GTR
Rail union RMT has confirmed that it is receiving widespread reports from the front line of severe disruption to services on the first day of the new GTR timetable. There are real fears that ‎routes will be on a knife...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: southern rail, gtr, thameslink, great northern, timetable
RMT slams new GTR timetable
Rail union RMT today called for Govia Thameslink Railway to be the next private train company to be stripped of their franchise as the union highlighted a disgusting insult to disabled people contained in the new timetable arrangements that come...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: southern, southern rail, gtr, thameslink, great northern, govia, govia thameslink railway, disabled passengers, timetable
‎RMT warns of disastrous consequences from new GTR timetable
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: “The planned new timetable on GTR will place massive additional strains on infrastructure and staffing levels that are already struggling to cope with current capacity. The company are winging it with potentially disastrous consequences....
Region: National
Tagged with: gtr, timetable