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From: Bernard Carney Subject: Passenger information
If you have people responsible for information, who come up with a constantly revolving train service information board as those at Leeds and Manchester, where people stare upwards in frustration and bewilderment, how can you expect them to understand a passenger’s needs?
Information transfer is a serious business, not for untrained manager types or newbie graduates.
From: Alistair Moss Subject: Rail investment
Whilst I welcome the investment, the question is where the trains will be built and whose OLE equipment is used. Going by experience over the last 10 years, it will be Siemens trains and Siemens OLE.
We as a country are not here to fund employment in Germany. All investment in UK rail must stipulate that everything be purchased from UK companies - Siemens design possibly for the new trains, but it must be 100 % UK procured material.
From: Peter Rogal Subject: Manchester Metrolink
How does Metrolink propose to implement a six-minute service to Altrincham if the Mosley Street Station closes?
Do not tell me I have to walk all the way to St Peter’s Square and stand in the rain, as there is not adequate coverage now!
From: Mike Ranson Subject: Skills Academy go- ahead
This will be an interesting issue to watch. How will this work? Will this be open to the self employed contractors? If so, would we get a percentage paid if we were to put ourselves on these courses? How much red tape will there be to even get near a course?
Will these courses give preference to the British workers, before all the foreigners that have invaded our shores? I am 20 years experienced, ex- British Rail, highly-skilled IRSE signalling and I have not worked on signalling in over a year. Why?
The economy and the cutbacks, for one. Another is that there are no jobs any more for British workers. I need to get my skills back up-to-speed and get refreshed certificates to enable me to keep practising my skills here.
The reason why there is a skills
shortage is that because people have had opportunities to go abroad, such as Australia. Why? Because there is a much better way of life there and you are respected for your skills and not ignored and swept under the carpet and forgotten.
There are hundreds of skilled people in this country in signalling, p-way, overheads and other fields such as rolling stock and so on who are out of work and for many, all tickets, licenses and training are out-of-date.
I hope the relevant people who are at the forefront of this Skills Academy take note of the skilled British people who matter in this country, use common sense and listen to us and not those buffoon-like politicians who tell us what they want us to hear. We have no workforce in the UK as the UK is dead, buried and flood with unwanted migrants.
From: John Sreeves Subject: Waterloo development
The big question remains - when are the Eurostar platforms going
to be reopened for domestic use, and is the Government happy throwing away £500,000 per year to keep it mothballed indefinitely?
From: Dr Peter Jarvis Subject: Railways in Wales
The failure to put money into Welsh railways is fairly typical. It is an awkward country with a lot of expensive civil engineering to maintain per mile of track, and the main expenditure has been £90m on installing ERTMS from Harlech to Pwllheli. It will take a long time to get that back at the fare box. True, the ERTMS should eventually extend to Shrewsbury, thus even reaching England!
An interesting facet of this operation has been the work whereby the Welsh-gauge line Rheilffordd Eryri crosses the Network Rail line on the level near Porthmadog. This seems to be one of the few places where Network Rail connects with an independent line, and the only place where it crosses a line of a different track gauge.
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