Rail Fare Increases

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Rail Fare Increases

So along comes the first of January and what’s all over the News channels? There’s going to be an increase in rail fares on 1st January. Shock! Horror!

Since when was this fucking news? I remember back in the late 60’s (yes I really am that old!) when rail fares went up on January 1st. It’s happened every year since. Now I appreciate that we’re in the dead zone for news until after the Christmas / New Year holidays that seem to go on for a fortnight, but this really isn’t news is it?

Al-BBC blames the increases on the rail companies and the fact that the increases are tagged to the Consumer Prices Index or is it the Retail Prices Index? Well, one or the other anyway. And they’re bleating that it’s linked to the wrong one.

What the lefties at the Beeb seem to be conveniently ignoring is that the drivers and staff wages are also linked to the same index. So if you are forced to pay your useless good for nothing staff – like the unnecessary guards – loads of extra dosh, then you have to put your prices up to cover the wage bill. Simples, in’it?

The real cunts here are the unions. They bleat about how the increases are hitting the poor old ordinary working man whilst paying drivers the sort of wages that most of us can only dream about. For example, a tube train driver in London can earn £100,000 a year.

Why the fuck did I bother to work my arse off for professional qualifications? Should have been a train driver. I’d have got free rail travel then too…

 

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41 thoughts on “Rail Fare Increases”

    • It’s not a button, it’s a small T-bar they lean on, then lean back out when de-accelerating.
      Next time you’re catching the Tube, look at the dead-eyed zombies who are driving. That’s all they have to do. Occasionally they have to mumble incoherent gobbledegook about pausing at a station which sounds like one long word uttered in a incomprehensible, street patois but generally leaning on the bar is it.

      For two grand a week.

      • Fucking hell captain your making it sound so easy? How long is the training course? 😂 Do they practice on a simulator?
        Does anybody know? Does anybody care?

      • In bull shit Britain we’ve already got

        Barista… A Cunt who can pour hot beverages?

        Sandwich artist.. some minimum wage dotard who can make a subway sandwich

        How long before the train driver gets called a
        PILOT?

    • And they all pray for the magic number of 3 jumpers to go under their wheels as it’s an instant retirement bonus on full pension.

      • Is that true??

        Do.soldiers get a similar deal when they’ve seen all their friends blown to pieces by peacefuls in Afghanistan?

        Oh no they don’t do they , they either end up homeless or topping themselves with PTSD.

        Got to love the Government

      • Well I had a mate who worked as a tube operator in Londonistab 10yrs ago when I had to work there.

        He was on £50k back then and he had two “under the wheels” incidents on his record. He was mid 40’s at the time and was praying for a 3rd so he could retire and fuck off to his (paid for) gaff in Murcia in Spain and play golf for the rest of his natural on his London Transport pension.

        His (paid for) two bed flat in Epping was prime to be letted as well even though it was worth n-hundred grand at the time.

        Nowadays fuck knows how much it’s worth.

        That’ll teach me to study for two degrees, eh! (Free of charge o’course, just to piss off any millennial snowflakes who might be watching – fuck you, Beyonce Studies cunts)!

    • SIgnal box operators train harder and their exams are more difficult than a train drivers. The S&I (signal and instrumentation) on trains make them almost driverless – let the lazy fucking drivers (you will find most of the old ASLEF cunts are out and out communists) do the guards job as well. BTW – signal box operators job at my local manned level crossing £66k for a 35 hour week with the usual massive uplifts for working rest days and gold plated pensions. The cunts have the cheek to withdraw labour at the drop of a hat and plunge the country into chaos. I am sure if Maggie hadnt have been ousted by the cunt Heseltine the train drivers were next in her sights. Some snowflake kid from some transport QANGO declares that privatisation is the only option left for the railways now. Obviously far too young to remember just how bad the old BR were, and they were fucking shite.

  2. £100k!! How in the same of Peter Wyngarde’s ravaged back passage can they justify that!!!!?

    You’re not the only cunt who’s wondering why he bothered with professional qualifications!

  3. No doubt there will be a charidee advert for these poor souls who have to pay for their rail fares.

    Poor Quentin has to travel 20 miles to get to his place of work in a filthy germ infested carriage. Some days the trains are so late that Quentin gets cold waiting on the platform. For just £3 a month you could help Quentins journey more comfortable. This £3 could help pay towards a scarf so he doesn’t tremble as much.

    I’ve no sympathy. Lifestyle choice, get a job closer to home or move closer to the job.

    Goodbye for now.

      • Sorry Jack… misread your post… thought you said you were “just ‘buying’ a fucking car!!” Imagined you getting shafted in the showroom, ha ha.

        What a cunt.

      • Shafting in the showroom ????
        That’s Krav and Mr. Mincer territory.
        You must know some very unusual car dealers.
        Good evening RTC.

      • I have no idea what you’re allewding to Jack. I am just a poor boy from Portmeirion in Wales.

    • Fucking freeloading scumbags….
      I’d say fair play to em but they still whinge and go on strike.
      The whole system should be automated.
      Sack the fuckin lot of em…
      I couldn’t believe it when the article said that the cunts get 43 days holiday per year.
      That’s like 2 straight months off! …twice what I get!
      Greedy cunts.

      • Automation on the DLR (which is basically the same as the fucking Tube) has been in place for the past 30 or so years.

        Clearly the Underground could be automated at the flick of a switch – all new trains since the Victoria Line was commissioned have this capability.

        All that is lacking is a spine in Government. No surprise there then.

  6. what is so wrong about rail increases is the absence of choice.. capitalism is supposed to work by competitors , errrr competing! , thus keeping prices down. the fuckin train companies exploit the lack of choice, knowing full well people have to get to work. and have to pay. short and curlies at it’s finest.

  7. I dont agree with the comment on guards, they are necessary in case the fucking stupid driver stops in the wrong place and the doors can open over a fucking 10ft drop down to the tracks.

    It happened to me….. luckily had my wits about me otherwise I could have been a big pile of shit on the track.

    Guards are necessary ….. however the fucking train fairs london to,leeds are a fucking lottery, I am sure they are made up each day on the back of a fag packet, its a fucking joke. Cunts.

    • My daughter was required to attend a court hearing to give evidence in Manchester, and due to the nature of the case I was requested by the CPS to go with her.

      CPS purchased return tickets for us from Ipswich to Manchester. The cost £448 EACH!!! A staggering waste of taxpayers money as I could have purchased tickets for well under a half of this price.

  9. There again Dioclese I find it kind of pleasing that some average cunt can earn a decent living. There are too few opportunities for the average Joe to get a cushy number. Plenty of management with bags of qualifications who couldn’t even hang a timetable together working in that industry.

    This is where London sucks the country dry, every cunt chasing jobs in London and then bleating because it costs a fortune to get there from the ever expanding commuter belt. Meanwhile average people have fuck all hope of affording a hovel in London as the culture enriching immigrants take over and push rents beyond reach.

    London needs downsizing, many of the cunts commuting could do their shit jobs from a shed in their back garden these days, The rat race is alive and well.

  10. Years ago I remember trains being despatched with one or two people. Now you have a whole army of socialists with high Vis jacket’s, different colours for different jobs, waving paddles about like demented idiots stalking and barking orders at passengers while blowing a whistle. The trains ain’t despatched any faster and all these extra platform staff need paying wages. So then everyone wonders why fares have gone up. Cunts.

  11. My father works as a software engineer. Its a complex job, and he had to work extremely hard to get to the position where he is today – even doing three hour round trips each day at one point in his career. And yet he earns 30k less than these cunts who do a job which, in the immortal words of the song, could be done by a four year old. It’s disgusting.

  12. I earn a shitload less than the train drivers and I’m front-line NHS ambulance crew with your life, literally, in my hands. Do I give a fuck about what they earn? No. If I wanted to be a train driver, I’d be one. Anyone can apply. I don’t take part in The Great Race To The Bottom, sponsored by cunts at The Daily fucking Mail or The Super Soaraway Sun. Trains don’t have blue-lights and sirens, anyway!!

    • Good luck getting a job as a train driver. I think you’ll find it’s about as much a closed shop as you’ll find anywhere

  13. The trouble is the Underground is incredibly “popular” with commuters. I say popular not because people love the Underground, but as the only real alternative to getting from A to B compared to a bus or car in London’s overcrowded streets.

    As a consequence the union has the commuter mob by the balls, and knows it can cause massive disruption everytime they don’t get their way for some such flakey little thing.

    Environmentalists bang on about how people should forgo their cars and use public transport to save the planet. Well that’s all very well, but when you have cunts for unions you’re going to think twice about using the Underground again.

    • Their union might be a cunt, but I wish they ran MY union. Boy, do they do their job well.

      ‘Environmentalists’? The word ‘Mental’ isn’t in there for nothing!

  14. I am prepared to be ripped apart here. As I hold my breath and close my eyes…….. I’m a train driver…….

    There I admitted it.

    I’m not going to sit here and justify my wage, also just to point out in my 7 years on the railway I haven’t been on strike once, so I can’t comment on what that’s like either.

    It is a lot of money, although I’d like to highlight I’m on no where near £100k per year, but can you blame me, I got the driving job ‘off the street’ as it were, never worked on the railway prior. Generally day to day it’s fairly easy, until the shit hits the fan. You’re paid not for what you do, but what you know, the rules and regs are a minefield and most of the pay is for the fact I can start work at any hour of the day any day of the week.

    But I’d urge others, don’t blame me for what I earn, like I said I’ve never personally been on strike, the wages have been negotiated with what the company has been happy to pay, maybe ask why other employers are happy to pay people peanuts to do jobs, even with the high wages of drivers train companies still make very handsome profits.

    Ok now you can hammer me.

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