Thursday, 19 November 2009

Beardie Rail aims to sweep the board

Telegrammed by the Archer
Not content with a top ten hit in Tuesday’s mini pilgrimage, Virgin ticketing staff at Preston station will join colleagues from another four stations tomorrow and go on strike.

Preston clearly has the #1 spot in mind and the other four stations are presumably keen to take a slice of the (as yet un-funded) £50m pie.

At this rate Virgin will end up with nine of the top ten worst stations, a remarkable achievement, well worthy of the £45m investment prize.

And not before time, given the chronic under investment on WCML infrastructure over the last few years. (shome mishtake shurley. Ed)

UPDATE: This from BBCbusiness via Twitter...

A planned strike by Virgin Trains booking office staff at five mainline stations on Friday is called off
after a legal challenge by the company.