(24 Jan 2025, 12:04 pm)R852 PRG wrote Since their arrival in autumn 2022 and the restructure they brought about, the local leadership has taken various steps to dispatch historic depot-level management in some sort of 'drain the swamp' strategy. One of the three General Managers the current leadership inherited was given his marching orders this time last year, and the Operations Director in the spring. The Operations Director role was sharp filled by one of Featham's prodigies - if I was being cynical, I'd have suggested this was a foregone conclusion and a planned promotion all along. A few long-serving Operations Managers have also been peddled for fairly minor transgressions within the last year. Their overarching strategy seems to be to simply bin those off whose faces don't fit.
I'd argue that the decisions to remove certain members of the management team were long overdue.
There were some who were part of the previous clique and had been making operational choices that had been dubious at best for years. (Just look at the comments made about decisions they made in this very forum, declining passenger numbers, court tribunals etc etc.)
Whether the new clique is any better, is probably the discussion point here.