John B wrote:
On Sep 3, 11:15 pm, asdf wrote:

Anyone know why it is considered safe for Chiltern to run over the
Metronet maintained Amersham - Harrow section, but not safe for the
Met to do the same?

Presumably because Chiltern have enough non-RMT drivers to be able to
run the Aylesbury via Amersham service. They also run over a
non-Metronet route (the route via High Wycombe), so they can stick
all the RMT drivers on that one.

Also, AIUI there isn't a very high proportion of RMT drivers on
National Rail compared to LUL - they're mostly ASLEF (I might be
completely wrong on that - it's from memory rather than Sourced Fact).

I don't know what the situation is like now - but about twelve or fifteen
years ago the Chiltern line was a-typical to the rest of the system, in that
it had a very high proportion of RMT drivers (they might still have been NUR
then), rather than ASLEF men. I recall happily travelling to and from work
during one dispute, when most of the national network was at a standstill,
due to "the wrong type of union".