RMT calls for Underground cleaning contract to end
The RMT is calling on Transport for London not to renew a cleaning contract which involves more than 2000 staff. The union claims that the Mayor may have been misled by his advisors at TfL, who had told him that it was too late to halt a re-tendering process.
A Caledonian Sleeper service is to start calling at Birmingham International from January, connecting the West Midlands with the Scottish Highlands. It will be the first major change to a sleeper route since the Night Riviera between London and Cornwall ceased to include a separate sleeping car for Plymouth 20 years ago.
The first of a fleet of 54 new trains for the Docklands Light Railway has gone into service. The five-car trains, built for Transport for London by CAF at Beasain in Spain, have been delayed by more than a year because of compatibility problems with the DLR’s existing control systems, but TfL said it now expected the full fleet to be in service by the end of next year.
The RMT is considering an improved pay offer from Transport for London for its 10,000 members on London Underground. TfL is attempting to end the dispute which led to disruptive strikes earlier this month by proposing a three-year settlement.
The Department for Transport has revealed that the latest train operator to be given a date for renationalisation is Govia Thameslink Railway.
Today is the 200th anniversary of the day when a steam engine hauled a train of fare-paying passengers on a railway for the first time. This essay pays tribute to an industry which would change the way we live.
A warning has been issued by Network Rail in advance of this weekend’s special trips along parts of the original Stockton & Darlington Railway to mark the 200th anniversary of the first journey by paying passengers on a steam-hauled train.
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