Trains cancelled after Aslef told drivers not to walk on snow

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/06/trains-cancelled-after-union-told-drivers-not-to-walk-snow/

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Trains cancelled after Aslef told drivers not to walk on snow

Unions calling the shots again

 

 

[webbo3]

No idea what happened there.

[rockyracoon]

Escape doesn't seem to work like it usually does.

[Old_Geezer]

Have no escape key on my android mobile devices.

[Old_Geezer]

Removing jacascript running helps though.

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah, more wrapping in cotton wool. What would their ancestors think ?

[THECORBYLOON]

This link works

https://archive.ph/vs5FT

[webbo3]

Thanks TCL

[THECORBYLOON]

As they knew snow was due, could management not have arranged for the site to be gritted?

[webbo3]

I use to work in a large garden centre and a crow of us would grit all the paths around the outside of the garden centre and put signs up in the car park, I:E Paths are slippery etc.

[naomi24]

Pathetic.  

[fender62]

probably require snow payments..

[Ellipsis]

Snow joke.

[douglas9401]

Only the crumbliest flakiest drivers...

[ToraToraTora]

must have been the wrong kind of snow.

[dave50]

Pity we cant sack them all and start again like Reagan did with the pilots in the 80s.

[New Judge]

"Pity we cant sack them all and start again like Reagan did with the pilots in the 80s."

It was Air Traffic Controllers, dave:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-fires-11359-air-traffic-controllers

[New Judge]

I have a little sympathy.

Railway depots and yards are hazardous places. There are all sorts of trip hazards such as ballast, cables, signalling and electrical equipment which could become hidden under even a small amount of snow. A fall in a depot or yard could result in nasty injuries if the victim falls onto rails or other equipment.

Normally walking routes are well defined and safe, steering clear of hazards. It is incumbent on employers to keep workplaces safe and it should not have been beyond their capabilities to clear some safe walking routes to deal with a small amount of well-forecast snow.

[vulcan42]

Eveen the Army has turned soft.

"If junior soldiers can't get back safely, they should wait until it is safe to do so," a spokesperson from the Army Foundation College told BFBS Forces News.

 

[davebro3]

I wonder how they woulda coped back in the day - firing up hours before the journey, shovelling coal, open footplates.

[youngmafbog]

Back in the day though people were not sued.

Paths should have been gritted.