Well that was strange. I went into work today to discover that there were dozens of drivers sitting around watching TV. Which most of us proceeded to do for the rest of the day (Deal or No Deal was particularly exciting today!).
This state of affairs would sort of lead a person to think that we must be running trains what with having so many drivers. But no, we put a few up and down and that was that. It was beyond bizarre to have us all sitting there, trains prepped and available and yet being told to do nothing. What was *that* all about?
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Maybe a lack of Voices??
Be interesting to see what happens tomorrow. Based on previous multi-day strikes, I’m betting some strikers will have seen that the strike wasn’t as solid today as Bob said and would rather not lose another day’s pay.
Oh the Voices where there. We were running *some* trains. But just not very many – especially when considering the number of people sitting around doing nothing. It’s not that there weren’t trains prepped either. Everything was there but still they just ran the minimum service they could. I have no clue what was going on there.
I won’t say this very loudly, but this morning, I managed the quickest commute I’ve ever had into work. Normally 50 minutes is about as good as I get door to door. Today was 45 minutes.
LOL, yes. We’ve always maintained that we run a better service when we are making it up as we go along rather than having timetables.
There were very few people on the platforms yesterday so that helped speed things up. The longest part of any journey is about getting people off and on the vehicles. Zooming through half the stations helped too though. 😉