On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:07:59 +0100, Peter Smyth wrote:

All Metronet lines are now suspended, including parts of the Piccadilly
where it runs over such lines.

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.

On Sep 3, 11:15 pm, asdf wrote:
All Metronet lines are now suspended, including parts of the Piccadilly
where it runs over such lines.

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).

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John Band
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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".