Yet another two days of industrial action have been announced by the RMT union affecting Southern Railways services next week, on Tuesday and Thursday October 3 and 5. As on previous such occasions, we will lose the Rye shuttles but the bus replacement service should operate.
This may not provide much comfort but, now, passengers and staff on other train lines are joining in the same debate, objecting to the downgrading of the role of the guard on board trains, there to protect passengers – these include MerseyRail and Greater Anglia.
Although not a precisely equivalent situation, you may be interested to read about the sort of incident that guards are there to protect passengers from.
