Rail strike on the way?

Part of the dispute involves plans to shed 2500 maintenance jobs. So automation of trains wouldn’t make much difference there.
Not the only reason for the strike though.

Tired of it - same as with the Tube.

Anyway, it’s just a matter of time before it happens 👍
 
It’s already here in Singapore - the whole MRT (tube) is automated.
The DLR is in London.

The issue with trying to do it here is the scale of the projects and the ridiculously inflated time and cost of any public works projects.

They only electrified the line from Preston to Blackpool recently. The infrastructure in this country is effectively Victorian.

We are 50 years from the equivalent of Romans grazing sheep in the forum.
 
The issue with trying to do it here is the scale of the projects and the ridiculously inflated time and cost of any public works projects.

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Dread to think how long it would take to build anything on that scale - look at the new M55 junction. 😄

They installed fibre down our road a few weeks back - took them a week to do about 100 meters. They've been back twice to dig up sections and re-do. 🙄

Incompetent, inefficient and and no doubt very expensive.
 
Whatever we “build“or repair( if we are lucky) in this country be it roads,railways,buildings,etc,etc it always seems to take forever ,that M55 new junction,goodness knows what purpose it is going to serve,being a prime example.
 
It’s already here in Singapore - the whole MRT (tube) is automated.
Used the automatic "PisaMover" from Pisa Airport to the main Pisa train station a few weeks ago. Fantastic bit of kit, very easy to use, very quick and relatively cheap. If that's the future bring it on 👍🏽
 
Not anti union - pro technology.

Live in the past if you want 👍
Workers have a right to protect their jobs. They also have a right - indeed, a duty - to call out concerns about health & safety. Industries with a large workforce always develop better when Management and Unions work together. The RMT aren't luddites. For instance, the lack of investment in railways outside of London has not been caused by a militant workforce objecting to technological progress.
 
I'm 36 and not a sniff they will automate trains in my lifetime.

They can't get the track up to speed to go quicker than 45 mph over the East Lancashire line so very unlikely they will be able to implement that sort of technological advancement up here any time soon.
 
Last train I went on was the Euston train then changed at Crewe to go to Hereford
Is it really necessary to have heating on full rattle in those carriages? Must have been at least 28 degrees - face meltingly hot.
 
I feel really sorry for all the Blockbuster employees who lost their jobs due to advances in technology.

Also spare a thought for the out of work lamp lighters and candle makers.
 
I feel really sorry for all the Blockbuster employees who lost their jobs due to advances in technology.

Also spare a thought for the out of work lamp lighters and candle makers.
I worked for Blockbuster for one day back when I was at uni, which was how long it took for them to tell me you couldn't watch films in store as you worked, but had to sit there with the promotional video on a loop.

It was this point I realised me and the corporate world were never going to get along.
 
They installed fibre down our road a few weeks back - took them a week to do about 100 meters. They've been back twice to dig up sections and re-do. 🙄

Incompetent, inefficient and and no doubt very expensive.
And they're back again, 4th time digging the same hole. 🙄
 
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