Dear Mick Whelan and Mick Cash - and the only time I have ever had the courtesy of a reply is from one Admin Manager in the RMT. Perfect photos, below if you are fed up with reading.
You get paid to care. WAKE UP, SUNSHINES! "The past you inherit; the future you shape", Mick Cash correctly said once.
You and your members, my friends, are all on good salaries. Yet, for decades you have presided over the destruction of your very own railway network. You have gladly shaken hands with the rest of the railway industry and the DfT to run not trains on railway lines but houses, offices, shops, roads and trams. Are both of you completely out of your minds? See:
Since the 1980s, it has been "bus on rails" trams instead of safer, faster and more useful passenger trains reinstated on the remaining railway lines not bulldozed by your good selves, Mick and Mick. Both of you taking the mickey out of us passengers.
What the hell is going on?
Trams are called "bus on rails" by Andrew Broddick, Promotions Director of Trams UK, the national tram lobbying group at West Midlands Transport HQ in Brum. This was on the 'Today' interview on Radio 4 to explain how seven passengers were killed and 62 injured when a tram toppled over on a former Croydon railway line in November 2016 when it had been going nearly four times over the speed limit on a sharp bend. As you know, it is highly unlikely that the accident would have happened if those 69 passengers had been on a safer TRAIN that the railway line had been designed and built for. Had there ever been a train accident on that section of railway line in the previous one hundred years of its existence as a regular railway?
WIKIPEDIA'S QUOTES:
"Of a total sixty-nine passengers, there were seven fatalities and sixty-two injured, nineteen of whom sustained serious injuries."
"Driver error was found to be the cause of the accident.[3]"
"Regulations applying to trams were similar to those applying to buses."
"The investigation also found that trams were not as safe as the ORR previously thought, having a higher accident rate than other rail transport and also buses and coaches.[43]" Wikipedia
Perhaps, the UK's only principal, mainline railway that has ever been officially mothballed for TRAINS, is now being converted to dangerous trams, a Very Light Rail test track and, an extended cycle-walkway, of all things!!
Best wishes for a non-violent revolution in railway standards and practice.
Tim Weller
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