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TSGN Franchise: Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (incl. Gatwick Express)

TSGN Franchise: Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (incl. Gatwick Express)

#31
Andreos1
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RE: TSGN Franchise: Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (incl. Gatwick Express)
(01 Sep 2016, 12:12 pm)Andreos1 wrote £20m of public funds set aside to support the GTR network.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37245163

*shakes head and is left rendered speechless*

Edit: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...20051.html The Independent have taken a slightly impartial view on the matter.

A day after it was revealed a £20m bailout from the Government.
This is announced - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37253789

http://www.go-ahead.com/en/investors/ful...entre.html

Huge profits across the Go-ahead Group (which owns 65% of the Govia train division).
£57m declared profit in rail division.
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#32
citaro5284
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RE: TSGN Franchise: Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (incl. Gatwick Express)
(02 Sep 2016, 8:53 am)Andreos1 wrote A day after it was revealed a £20m bailout from the Government.
This is announced - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37253789

http://www.go-ahead.com/en/investors/ful...entre.html

Huge profits across the Go-ahead Group (which owns 65% of the Govia train division).
£57m declared profit in rail division.

But only £57m on revenue of over £2billion, so not that much really, was it only 2.6%?
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#33
Andreos1
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RE: TSGN Franchise: Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (incl. Gatwick Express)
(02 Sep 2016, 5:49 pm)citaro5284 wrote But only £57m on revenue of over £2billion, so not that much really, was it only 2.6%?

Obviously not enough to afford £20m of improvements on the Southern network.
800k towards new staff and they cant cover that out of £57m...
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#37
Adrian
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RE: TSGN Franchise: Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (incl. Gatwick Express)
(13 Dec 2016, 5:33 pm)Andreos1 wrote Has anyone seen Chris Grayling's latest suggestion?
Banning strikes on the railway.

Even is own MP colleagues are looking for him to be sacked from the role
http://www.gregfoxsmith.co.uk/?p=1158

On what grounds? You can't just outlaw strike action because it causes disruption. It's met the criteria for the worst anti-TU laws in Europe, yet still not good enough for the Government.

To be honest, I don't think it'd stop the Southern drivers anyway. It'd just mean more wildcat strikes. POA members walked out a few weeks ago, and they're banned from striking.
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#38
Andreos1
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RE: TSGN Franchise: Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (incl. Gatwick Express)
(13 Dec 2016, 6:12 pm)Adrian wrote On what grounds? You can't just outlaw strike action because it causes disruption. It's met the criteria for the worst anti-TU laws in Europe, yet still not good enough for the Government.

To be honest, I don't think it'd stop the Southern drivers anyway. It'd just mean more wildcat strikes. POA members walked out a few weeks ago, and they're banned from striking.
I have no idea.
There's various quotes kicking around, none of which do him any favours.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...71341.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/201...e-nonsense

Quite how he would manage to implement it amongst employees of privately owned companies, is anyone's guess. If they were employed by the state, then thats obviously a different kettle of fish. But we all know that wont happen under a tory watch.

The man is a buffoon, his previous record and his letter to Johnson about TfL sums up his attitude.
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#50
Andreos1
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RE: TSGN Franchise: Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (incl. Gatwick Express)
GTR have been ordered to spend £15m of improvements for passengers following chaos over the summer.
DfT reckons GTR now won't make a profit for 2018
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#52
Andreos1
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RE: TSGN Franchise: Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (incl. Gatwick Express)
(04 Dec 2018, 4:46 pm)citaro5284 wrote Have they been ordered?

https://www.go-ahead.com/en/media/news/2...-2018.html

Depends which headline you read I suppose. I've just linked a generic 'DfT gtr' Google search at the bottom of the page. 
Hopefully it provides a balanced context. 

This quote taken from one of the links is pretty interesting, particularly if it's an agreement like your shareholder link purports. 
"These measures do not make GTR immune from further sanctions in the event of any subsequent failure to perform."


https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=m...oid-huawei&ei=c9kGXOjuINbwgAbS772YCw&q=Gtr+dft&oq=Gtr+dft&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.3..0i8i30l2.5252.6812..7420...0.0..0.115.638.1j5......0....1.........0j0i8i10i30j0i10i30j0i7i30j0i131i67j0i131j0i67.1GqN_39AYRU
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