🚆 Here's why TransPennine Express passengers will have to wait months for improvement to their rail services following the nationalisation.
From tomorrow, management of services will transfer from multinational transport firm FirstGroup to the Civil Service via the government-owned business the Operator of Last Resort .. But the thousands of fed-up users across the north and Scotland who have struggled to get to work, school or social events for so long would probably prefer some quick and abrupt improvements to their train services.
Transport Secretary Mark Harper took the decision to strip FirstGroup of TPE services earlier this month Both remain in dispute with the government over pay, jobs and conditions with fresh strikes scheduled to take place over the half term holiday next week on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.that an increasingly toxic atmosphere that developed between management and frontline staff at TPE has played a major role in its poor performance.
But Aslef said members were left outraged when it became clear the pay offer came with a range of substantial changes which they considered to be a “land grab” on hard-won terms and conditions. Earlier this week, an email sent to TPE staff asking if they would like to sign a leaving card for Mr Golton and contribute to a “collection” was leaked on Twitter.
But there will need to be a resolution to the industrial dispute before passengers will notice any real change. In the final quarter before the pandemic, October to December 2019, the operator cancelled more than 10,000 trains, 6 per cent of all services planned.
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