Leave him PJ, he ain't wurff it!

Gerry Doherty of the TSSA has never been shy of jumping on a passing band wagon.

So it came as no surprise to see the following statement issued today...

The TSSA today condemned an new £2.4 million ad campaign launched by Network Rail defending its £9 billion upgrade of the West Coast mainline.

Gerry Doherty, general secretary, said "Here we have the ridiculous situation whereby Virgin Trains has had to cancel its own multi million pound TV ad campaign in Scotland because no trains are running north of Preston at weekends while Iain Coucher launches his own "you never had it so good" campaign claiming everything in the garden is rosy."

Readers interested in hearing NR and TSSA batter each over the head are invited to tune into Radio Five Live at 17:45 today.

For those of a more delicate disposition Network Rail has produced a frankly rather good promotional video about the WCML upgrade. Previously distributed with Railnews it can now be found on-line here.

Meanwhile The Fact Compiler will be tuning into the punch-up.