Reading Roars!

First Great Western. What’s great about them? Guards on FGW trains have voted to hold a 48 hour strike, prompting the following words on I Hate First Great Western blog:

Sometimes the words “piss-up” and “brewery” come to mind when I think of the way that FGW try to run their bit of the railway. The words “bull” and “china shop” occur to me too, when you look at the way they deal with problems.

Look, we know there aren’t enough trains, the staff morale is low, the tracks need fixing and the stations aren’t big enough. We know all this. We just want you to sort it out. All we can see from our end is the cost of our tickets, and the constant failure to get us from A to B. Surely you can see why we might be as annoyed as the drivers who object to managers driving the trains. My message to First Great Western is take your hands away from your ears and stop shouting “la la la, I can’t hear you”. It’s good to talk, as they say.

Quite.

The same blog received the following comment from More Train Less Strain (”Campaigning for a decent rail service”):

If anyone from Reading or Maidenhead would like to help to coordiante a fare strike on the 28th JAN we want to hear from you. Email tambrose31@yahoo.co.uk.

Why not? The passengers have nothing to lose but their trains.