Pathetic workrate of rail arb gang

[Joel77]

Indeed there is Joel77

 

I used to hold the old PTS and PICOW qual and did a lot of nights and weekend possesion work doing bank stabilisation work around yorkshire working hand in hand with teams doing the clearance work. We never stopped for rain and normally worked bloody hard every shift.

 

Most lads on here are i suggest are fairly hard working and modest in as much as they wont brag as to what they are earning etc etc. one of my house rules for the kids is not to gloat !!.

 

Probably a lot of truth in what you say is happening but right is right and what you describe can in no way be called the right way to carry out a job. But if your happy then crack on.

 

Probably more how you portrayed the whole thing that has wound people up.[/

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Good point but I never glotted about money and still never mension a figur for myself it was poor old bad back or back pain geezer who mension his £1500 a week

[Joel77]

A lot of this sitting about in vans caper ? Iv never said we sit about in vans that's a NR thing I'm not on NR I hold the cert as NR runs along side LuL

 

LuL is sort shift,s hence the reason it's so popular with so many people and yes the rail is very H&S and that's a good thing there needs to be s safe system of work and rules, I look at H&S as a result it brings in more income as a job that would be week is now 3 weeks

 

Plus the rail gives a guaranteed income come rain or shine and talking of weather if it's too cold we can't work

 

Pls stop comparing LuL to NR it's a different kettle of fish

[Joel77]

Not on a possession or a block which is when most of the productive work takes place.

Sighting distance! Had it once or twice when trains were running and it had to be a pea souper.

Good things come............. to an end

 

Errr No....

 

That's where your very wrong the railway will alway be there and will alway require maintenance

 

And I use my tickets across to spic protect or hand back any job so far m not relying on or just specialised in one trade

[drinksloe]

Errr No....

 

That's where your very wrong the railway will alway be there and will alway require maintenance

 

And I use my tickets across to spic protect or hand back any job so far m not relying on or just specialised in one trade

 

 

Yes the railways will aways be there and need maintaned but it doesn't mean they'll carry on the way they are the now.

All sounds completely different to when i worked on the track, we definately never had days of for rain even when working trackside de vegging.

 

If thats the case why do so many companies subbing to railways go bust??

Round my area about 10 yrs ago every man with a saw ticket and there dog was working on railways now no one does it and 3 local companies went bust/folded. 1 of them would have close to 50 men at 1 point.

 

In the old days it was quite normal for forestry workers to not work in the rain, think got choice to sit in tea hut til lunch and work in afternoon or brave the morning and go home at lunch. And that was fairly normal even in the private plantig gangs where all on piece work

[Marula]

I can't tear myself away from the car crash that is this thread.

[Joel77]

Yes the railways will aways be there and need maintaned but it doesn't mean they'll carry on the way they are the now.

All sounds completely different to when i worked on the track, we definately never had days of for rain even when working trackside de vegging.

 

If thats the case why do so many companies subbing to railways go bust??

Round my area about 10 yrs ago every man with a saw ticket and there dog was working on railways now no one does it and 3 local companies went bust/folded. 1 of them would have close to 50 men at 1 point.

 

In the old days it was quite normal for forestry workers to not work in the rain, think got choice to sit in tea hut til lunch and work in afternoon or brave the morning and go home at lunch. And that was fairly normal even in the private plantig gangs where all on piece work

 

 

Yes your right firm,s go bust from time to time, but Iv been on 18 years now and there's still a lot of the old faces about

 

Every now n then there's a shake up but it's not long till things go back to normal

 

Progress is slow on LuL due do all the rules n regs plus as Iv said it's mainly geared up for engineering houses "nights" witch are 01:00 till 04:00 average due to trains running long hours in line clear "tunnels". If your working near depots at the end of the lines you could be talking 02:00 to :04:00

 

If the weather is cold LuL won't turn the power off at all to avoid it freezing up this happens for a week or too normally

 

And as about 90% of contractors don't hold ticked to work days anyway as work carried out on days is restricted

 

So all in all a complete different set up to NR

 

Would I work on NR............never

[Stihllymok]

Now this is quite an intriguing thread...to say the least.

Ive never worked the Railways but I'm often out early at weekends and live next to the WCML access points and noticed the hoards of white vans and orange coated masses...and wondered what they were doing sitting in their vans...now I know..."Working".

 

Cheers for the insight and an indication for the ridiculous price of fares and total disregard for the customer service by all Rail companies in general.

[Marula]

Everyone here seems to miss a certain point he made, he may not start work until the railway says so.

I've done highways contracts and we had to mass and wait until the highway boys said it's all clear. We often had people give us a beep and the finger on the way past, probably thought we were sleeping on their dollar no doubt.

[Mark Bolam]

Everyone here seems to miss a certain point he made, he may not start work until the railway says so.

I've done highways contracts and we had to mass and wait until the highway boys said it's all clear. We often had people give us a beep and the finger on the way past, probably thought we were sleeping on their dollar no doubt.

 

Sorry about that mate, hope I didn't wake you up.

 

Good point.

[Gary Prentice]

So, to sum up this thread.

 

Poor management leads to high or excessive costs!