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RMT slams rail rolling stock scandal in the North
THE Rail Union, RMT responds to reports on rail rolling
stock crisis in the UK's Financial Times in the last few days. General Secretary
Mick Cash said:- "The crisis in availability of rolling stock , as
passenger demand for rail services surges ahead, is just part of the toxic
legacy of 2 decades of rail privatisation which created the murky world of the
ROSCO's and has left us desperately short of trains and carriages. The fact that
50 year old diesel units, scrounged from the nuclear authorities, are pulling
vintage slam door carriages around the North makes a nonsense of George
Osborne's "Northern Powerhouse" rhetoric. The
lashed up Pacers, supposed to be a short term solution in the 80's, are still in
operation, indefinitely and speculation that decommissioned tube trains will be
thrown onto our railways shortly just adds to the overall picture of total
chaos. This is fragmentation and profiteering in action and it shames Britain
that our railways have been reduced to this shambles. The only solution is
public ownership." |
