Fraudulent travel set to rise after ticket offices close
An increase in the number of passengers travelling without tickets is expected to cost London Midland more than £400,000 if proposals to close some ticket offices and reduce the hours at others go ahead. The figure comes from leaked documents which have been revealed by the RMT union, and follows a controversy last month when DfT emails seen by Railnews suggested that the decision to close some offices had already been made.
East Midlands MD condemns escalation of disputeThe Aslef pensions dispute which is disrupting East Midlands Trains again this week is showing signs of worsening, because the RMT is now also balloting its EMT members for industrial action. The operator's managing director David Horne has described the development as 'extremely unhelpful'.
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