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ASLEF JOURNAL
The magazine of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen
OCTOBER 2019
Brighton Rocks for
ASLEF at the TUC
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The magazine of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen
OCTOBER 2019
I
GS Mick Whelan
Chaos and confusion
HAVE on your
behalf spent many
hours recently
making the case for a
greener transport strategy.
Lots of groups want to
jump on the climate Mick: ‘Many don't
change bandwagon, understand the true
building on the recent benefits of rail’
school strikes and rise of Extinction Rebellion, and
even long-established pressure groups do not
7 10 seem to understand the true benefits of rail. We
could deliver many of the commitments made at
News the Paris and Kyoto accords if there was a true
l JC promises expansion in workers’ rights
modal shift to rail as part of a long-term integrated
4
plan to secure a proper future for future
l Tim Bell’s coke habit; conferences; and 5 generations.
Off the Rails: Lord Mountbatten; Tolstoy; Grant Shapps’ review into HS2 seems to have
John Betjeman; Deloitte; and Sam Gurney galvanised a number of people, some suggesting
l Prometheus unbound on the Underground
that investment – particularly real investment - is
6
wrong and asking if there are cheaper, better,
l Five go mad for Max on the Great North Run 7 options? The reality remains that we need HS2 just
l The new Class 800 Azuma lines up with the
for the capacity benefits alone. It’s a shame the
8
classic steam loco 4468 Mallard at York 11 vision isn’t greater. A true connected high speed
network would free up freight, regenerate all the
regions, and, partnered with electrification, deliver
Features
l Sam Waters on the RSSB’s new underload
much of the green agenda being promoted by so
9 many now.
toolbox; and Darran Brown takes Pride Recycling decades-old defunct trains so that
l In the light of Donald Trump’s recent racist 10 venture capitalists can continue to lease them at
rants, Gregor Gall reflects on the UK and exorbitant costs does not form part of our green
the US as two nations of immigrants agenda. Many were not driver-friendly when built
l ASLEF in action at the TUC in Brighton with
and are not fit for purpose now. How do all the
11 trains and coaches purchased by the government
GS Mick Whelan and AGS Simon Weller
l Dave Calfe, Tracy Whitbread, Mark Prenter 12-13
14 end up being leased back to the industry at vastly
over-inflated terms? Is it a tax fiddle? It's time for
and Darran Brown at the podium; Deborah our trains to remain in our ownership when
Reay at the ASLEF fringe; and Off Message bought by public monies.
l The lessons of – and shadows cast by –
There were 271 suicides on our railways last year
14-15 and my heart goes out to the families, friends, and
Ladbroke Grove 20 years after the crash all those in the railway family impacted in each and
every one of those tragedies. It has made me think
Regulars
l Branch News and Upcoming Events
about how many incidents did not happen or,
16 fortunately, were averted, or people changed their
l John Metcalfe reports from Zagreb; and 17 minds, and what we need to do going forward?
100 Years of Union We have been seeking a review of all lone
working. Unfortunately 21st century society is not
l Obituaries 19 a polite one, much of it driven by political austerity
l Letters and Classified Advertisements 20-21
22 (and, yes, it was a choice), county lines, knife and
acid attacks. If we are going to have the feeling of a
l Last Word: The paintings and the politics 22 safe railway environment we need the staff and the
of the visionary poet William Blake passengers to know they are safe. Many of the
l On Track: Hopping a freight train; Prize
locations we go to at anti-social hours and the
23
shifts of a seven days a week railway are dependent
Crossword; Legal Services; and ASLEF’s
on walking, waiting for cars or taxis, and going into
Change of Address form
turnaround points or sidings alone. It's time for a
Cover photos: Andrew Wiard total review of what constitutes safe working.
It is the anniversary of the Ladbroke Grove
The ASLEF Journal is published every month by: tragedy this month and we should ensure that
ASLEF, 77 St John Street, London, EC1M 4NN such a thing never ever happens again, but we still
Tel: 020 7324 2400 l email: journal@aslef.org.uk do not have legislation strong enough to deal with
website: www.aslef.org.uk l twitter: @ASLEFUnion
23 those who failed in their fiduciary responsibilities –
and we must continue to seek it.
EditoR Mick Whelan l dESiGNER Michael Cronin l PRiNtER College Hill Press, London, SW19 4HE
AdvERtiSiNG ASLEF Journal, 77 St John Street, London, EC1M 4NN. Contact Keith Richmond on 020 7324 2407
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October 2019 l The ASLEF Journal 3
News
Breath of fresh air
SLEF has welcomed will set up a Ministry for
A Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge
at the Trades Union
Employment Rights with a remit
to improve pay and conditions for
Congress in Brighton to put workers across the UK. It will also
power ‘in the hands of the appoint a Secretary of State for
workers’ by implementing the Employment Rights and a
biggest expansion of Workers’ Protection Agency to
Mick (right) on Jeremy’s pledge: ‘A turning point in industrial relations’
employment rights in British enforce standards in the
history. workplace. ‘What a breath of fresh air!’ said world of work and safety, will act
Jeremy promised union Reiterating the party’s pledge GS Mick Whelan. ‘A politician who as a driver for the economy and
delegates radical action to to repeal the Trade Union Act wants to stand up for the workers give strength to building a bright
transform everyday lives by 2016, he said unions will get the of this country, who wishes to future.’
driving up wages, improving job right again to organise in protect the electorate by giving
security, and giving staff more say workplaces, and reps will be rights and protections to all. This n Please turn to pages 11, 12
in how their companies are run. protected against being sacked proposed legislation is long and 13 for our reports of ASlEF
He said a Labour government for union activities. overdue and, by creating a better in action at the tUC in Brighton
Leadsom calls for halt to HS2 QUOTE…
TWEETS OF THE MONTH
Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom, Conservative MP for South ‘HS2 is the best way to David Cameron admits smoking
Northamptonshire, has called for an immediate halt to work add the extra rail dope with wife and getting ‘off his
clearing the way for HS2 until the government decides whether capacity we so head’ at Eton.
or not to press ahead with the project. desperately need to mirror.co.uk
She said many of her constituents believe ‘enabling works’ rebalance our
should be paused amid fears about ‘unnecessary disruption to country’s economy.’ I care much less about Cameron
the countryside’ given that the line could be scrapped. – Sir John Peace, taking drugs than I do him, Johnson
But Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: ‘I have to make a chair of Midlands and Gove running a regime jailing usually
go/no-go decision in December and to have a proper go/no-go Connect and the working-class and black kids who get
decision, we need to continue to allow enabling works.’ Midlands Engine caught for doing what they did.
HS2 Ltd has spent £1.25 billion buying property in London …UNQUOTE @Kevin_Maguire
to clear the way for the line.
Debating, ie listening to, engaging
Wrong prescription with, & respecting other people’s
arguments, is more vital than ever.
Chuka Umunna has never seen a party he @bbcnickrobinson
didn’t want to join. He has been, this year, a
member of four political parties – Labour, The ‘Starting with a blank sheet’. We have
Independent Group, Change UK and the debated this project [HS2] in
Liberal Democrats – in the space of four Parliament for the past 6 years. You’ve
months. Now partying like this takes its toll. repeatedly voted for it. If the project isn’t
Hence his criticism, at the Lib Dem conference being delivered as planned, it’s Tory
in Bournemouth, of Jeremy Corbyn for ‘failing Check that spelling bee, Chuka ministers who need to explain why not.
to support the prescription of Hezbollah as a GP – has never suggested that Hezbollah @LilianGreenwood
terrorist organisation’. That was the script should be prescribed. Chuka meant
handed out to hacks and faithfully reported on proscribed, or banned, not prescribed. But it’s No matter how you voted, I’m sure
the BBC News website. Now Jeremy – like your been a tough year… you’ll agree that Brexit is a complete
mess.
@SadiqKhan
Top Tories on track to lose FIRE SALE BAd dEAL FOR TAXPAYER
Network Rail’s £1.5 billion fire sale of 5,261 railway The story of the Incredible Hulk is a
Senior Tories could lose their seats in a snap arches occupied by small businesses – to plug a
election this autumn, according to private tragedy. One man forced to live
funding gap – was not a good deal for taxpayers outside of society, desperately trying to find
polling by Downing Street. The Lib Dems or tenants, according to a critical report by the
are pouring resources into Richmond Park a cure for his terrible mutation. Whereas
House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. Chicken Run is a tale of how society working
in a bid to beat Zac Goldsmith and
Momentum is active in Welwyn Hatfield together can achieve great things. The
RETIREd MEMBERS’ SECTION AGM Tories are not so good on metaphors.
and Chingford & Woodford Green, where
ASLEF’s Retired Members’ Section annual general @organgeorangeboy
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and Iain
meeting will be held at 11am on Wednesday
Duncan Smith are vulnerable.
9 October at the BR Sports & Social Club, Beaver @BorisJohnson @10DowningStreet Ok
Road, Ashford, Kent, TN23 7RR. you got there. PM. Stick it on your CV.
Our woolly hat will keep But please go away now and stop f***ing up
you warm this winter. Price ELECTRO MAN our country for you and your friends’
£5 (including p&p); email Members can receive the ASLEF Journal – and benefits. There are real lives at stake here...
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4 The ASLEF Journal l October 2019
News
I’d like to buy the world a describing people
who could not
coke and keep it company organise something off the Rails
properly. When Bell,
IM BELL, Callaghan, the fearing she was LORd LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN came perilously
T who died on
25 August at
Labour Prime
Minister, to Moses,
about to announce
that Callaghan
close to leading a cabal of industrialists, Army
generals, and millionaire tycoons in a coup
the age of 77, was with the punchline ‘couldn’t even against an elected Labour government. The plot,
the glossy image urging him to ‘keep organise pussy’ finally in 1968, was designed to replace the
maker and ad man taking the tablets’ broached the government of Harold Wilson, who had been elected in 1964
who helped Margaret she wanted to subject, the and again in 1966. According to a new biography by Andrew
Thatcher win three change it to ‘keep unworldly Thatcher Lownie – The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves (Blink
successive elections taking the pills’. simply stared at him Publishing, £20) – the tycoon Cecil King thought Wilson
in 1979, 1983 and And she had an and said, ‘What’s should be replaced by a ‘national government’ led by the
1987. Obits made unfortunate habit of wrong with pussy? Mosleyesque figure of Mountbatten, who had just retired as
much of his using the word What do you think it Chief of the Defence Staff. Hugh Cudlipp told King that
buccaneering (and ‘pussy’ when means?’ Mountbatten had told him, ‘We can’t go on like this’ and
expensive) lifestyle, Solly Zuckerman, scientist and senior government adviser,
innovative recalled a meeting where Mountbatten claimed, ‘Morale in
advertising ideas, the Armed Forces has never been so low’, adding ‘Dickie was
and success at really intrigued by the suggestion that he should become
Saatchi & Saatchi the boss man of a government.’ Mountbatten, blown up by
before turning his the IRA at Mullaghmore in Sligo in 1979, was named by
attention to the Marcia Williams, Harold Wilson’s secretary, as ‘a prime mover
Tories, but played in the plan’. According to Lownie, it was not Zuckerman who
down his dirty habits talked Mountbatten out of leading a coup and making
of making up himself president of Britain. ‘It was the Queen herself.’
research, claiming
‘irrelevant expenses’, LEO TOLSTOY hated trains. ‘The railroad is to
and blowing a tim Bell with Mrs travel as a whore is to love,’ he wrote to a
fortune on a thatcher in her pomp friend. But, as Sophie Ratcliffe points out in
stupendous cocaine and (above) the The Lost Properties of Love (Collins, £16.99),
habit. ‘labour isn’t working steam trains run through his novels and the
Sir Tim, in his poster’ she didn’t effect is often erotic. Not just the wood-
memoirs, admitted understand panelled, velvet-cushioned, samovar-scented
that the famous carriages of Anna Karenina, played by Keira Knightley in the
‘Labour isn’t working’ 2012 film, but meeting Vronsky amid the ‘frosty vapours’ and
campaign poster of QUOTE… ‘curved lines’ of Moscow Central, where ‘the rumble of
1978 left Mrs ‘Really interesting detail that No 10 something heavy’ – love and death, War and Peace – is
Thatcher bewildered declined to give a sworn statement to coming, and not just down those railroad tracks.
because she had no court [the Court of Session in Edinburgh]
sense of irony and, and provided some emails and JOHN BETJEMAN wrote the script for a BBC
consequently, didn’t documents last night instead.’ – Laura programme about the life of Isambard Kingdom
get it. When her aides Kuenssberg, BBC political editor Brunel, broadcast in 1966. It has just been
drafted a joke …UNQUOTE published for the first time, in Harvest Bells: New
comparing James and Uncollected Poems (Bloomsbury, £16.99),
and contains these lines: ‘The company’s offices
in Tudor style / I built at Bristol’s Temple Meads
CONFERENCES & RALLIES meanwhile. / Bristol, which gave my great Great Western
The StUC black workers’ conference is at the Golden Jubilee birth, / Should have the finest wooden roof on earth.’
Conference Hotel, Glasgow, from Saturday 5 to Sunday 6 October. The
StUC women’s conference is at the Concert Hall, Perth, from Monday dELOITTE has been hit with a £4.2 million fine
28 to Tuesday 29 October. The StUC disabled workers’ conference is for failing to spot Serco’s dead prisoner tagging
at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel, Glasgow, from Saturday 16 to scandal and signing off on the company’s
Sunday 17 November. The Scottish trades Union Congress is at the dodgy accounts. The firm admitted misconduct
Concert Hall, Perth, from Monday 20 to Wednesday 22 April 2020. The for audits which overcharged for electronically
labour Party conference is at the ACC convention centre in Liverpool tagging prisoners who were either back in prison or, er,
from Saturday 19 to Wednesday 23 September. dead. Helen George, a partner, was fined £97,500 for her
part in the fiasco. She remains at the firm.
500 CLUB: ASLEF's Woking branch, with number 159, won the
September draw, scooping the RMS prize money jackpot of £428. TUC press releases are usually rather earnest
affairs, but Sam Gurney, regional secretary for
London, the east and south-east of England, and
Laurie Heselden, regional policy and campaigns
our new ASlEF lGBt+ purple polo
officer, had a bit of fun at the expense of tech
shirt – ‘driving for equality’ – is
giant Amazon with this dry observation
available in S, M, l and Xl. £15 inc
between the parenthetical commas: ‘In Amazon’s
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conditions are basic and brutal.’
October 2019 l The ASLEF Journal 5
News
Prometheus unbound Underground
Stagecoach slams
HE Tube has long exercised a
T powerful grip on our collective
imagination. For more than 150 years
franchise system
– the Metropolitan Railway, the world’s first
underground passenger line, running from
Paddington via Edgware Road, Baker Street
and King’s Cross to Farringdon, opened in 1863
– it has helped people get around the capital.
But for writers of short stories, novels, TV
dramas and films, it’s a fantastic subterranean our friend tosker (well, dr Milton) at temple
world, an irresistible setting, like Gormenghast,
Middle Earth and Narnia, for all sorts of heroes, Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound than Milton’s
villains and monsters. Satan.
Latest in the line is Mark Strong – Tosker in But then the Underground – although it
Our Friends in the North, Oblonsky in Anna runs on electricity – has always run on the
Karenina, and Merlin in Kingsman: The Secret power of metaphor, too.
Service – who in Temple on Sky1 plays a
n do you have a favourite story – on the
Brian – never let it be said a man at the
maverick medic who works out of a hidden
cutting edge of the progressive agenda
corner of Temple station on the Circle line. page, stage, or screen – set on the london
when it comes to promoting his bus
It’s a British version of Valkyrien, a Scandi Underground? Whether it’s an episode of
services – has gone off rail franchises
noir medical thriller broadcast in Norway on Dr Who, EastEnders or London’s Burning, or
since being excluded from bidding
NRK1, which might explain the many that spectacular tube train crash in the
references to Norse mythology, Wagner’s Der James Bond movie Skyfall, for which they
Ring des Nibelungen and Milton’s Paradise Lost Sir Brian Souter, chair of Stagecoach,
built a replica of temple station on a
although our hero – Dr Daniel Milton, natch, says the rail industry franchising
soundstage at Pinewood, let us know by
with a daughter called Eve – is more like system is ‘fundamentally flawed’ and
emailing us at journal@aslef.org.uk
suggested that contracts are awarded
by the department for Transport on
the basis of who can best fill in forms,
links with the past at St Pancras rather than run a good service for
passengers.
Back at the beginning of the year we went from one drivers’ link to two. We didn’t want to He was speaking at the AGM of the
call them link 1 and link 2 or Sunday link and No Sunday link so we decided to name them company, which has brought a legal
in honour of the last two steam drivers who worked out of St Pancras. Miriam Parry retired action against the dfT after being
around 2003 and dennis Farthing retired about 2001 so Parry link and Farthing link were disqualified from bidding for the East
created. Come december a third link will be required and we intend to continue the Midands, West Coast partnership, and
tradition of using former drivers’ names. Mick levesley was the third last stream driver to South Eastern franchises.
retire from St Pancras and levesley link will be up and running by the end of the year.
Garry Miller, St Pancras LdC rep
dISTRICT 1 FORUM
Mick bashes Boris QUOTE…
‘People think
DO1 Graham Morris is organising a district
weekend forum at the Elstead Hotel in
Bournemouth on Saturday 2 and Sunday
and, by the way, 3 November. Speakers will include GS Mick
ASLEF condemned Boris Johnson’s decision
I think people Whelan and a Labour MP. Cost is £60 which
to try to sideline Parliament in the run up to
are right, the includes a buffet lunch on arrival, evening
Brexit on 31 October. GS Mick Whelan said:
Tory party is run meal, bed and breakfast. You can book at
‘Whatever your views about Brexit, the
by people who, morrisg@aslef.org.uk
democratic process must underpin what is
basically, don’t
done in all our names. It is disturbing that a
care about
Prime Minister, who only has a mandate PLANES, TRAINS ANd AUTOMOBILES
people like me.’
from the Conservative Party, and not from New research reveals that 60% of long
– dominic
the electorate, is trying to undermine the distance journeys in the UK are cheaper on
Cummings,
foundations of our democracy. And while planes than trains. Bruce Williamson, of the
Boris
people did vote, three years ago, to leave campaign group Railfuture, says passengers
Johnson’s
the European Union, no one voted to leave are being forced to choose between
without a deal. The best way forward is to special adviser environmental concerns – as rail is cleaner and
call a general election and let the people Mick: ‘let the people …UNQUOTE greener than flying or travelling by car – and
decide.’ decide a way forward’ cost because of perpetually rising train fares.
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6 The ASLEF Journal l October 2019
News
Five on journey of awareness
HE Great North Run is the lives of families affected by
T hard enough, anyway.
It’s even harder when
this debilitating genetic condition.
‘Why the Max Appeal Express?’
you’re running this punishing half said Mark. ‘Well, that’s simple. Until
marathon from Newcastle to early 2019 the Max Appeal train
South Shields as a specially- worked the Great Northern
commissioned Class 365. But Railway in and out of King’s Cross
that’s what five train drivers – but, sadly, the train had to be
Connor Gosling, Mark Tripp, Luke retired from public service so we
Venneear and Barry West of Great wanted to ensure its spirit lives on.’
Northern and John Doyle of Mo Farah won the race – for
Southern – did on Sunday 8 the sixth time – but ASLEF’s
September. famous five raised £2,735 and an Connor, Barry, luke, John and Mark took it in turns to drive the Max
It was in aid of a good cause – awful lot of smiles along the way. Appeal Express built by their train driver colleague Paul tucker
Mark’s son Adam has 22q11 The drivers did the run in a
deletion syndrome and they creditable 3 hours 15 minutes was fabulous,’ said Mark. ‘Everyone could be scrapped five of us from
wanted to raise funds for – and 20 seconds. cheered us, and wanted to high Great Northern and Southern
awareness of – a charity called ‘The whole day was amazing five us along the entire course. decided to connect the Northern
Max Appeal which helps improve and the response from the crowds Given the possibility that HS2 Powerhouse to the south anyway!’
Andy, you’re a star Museum piece management
Andy Hudd, a member of Workers at the since 24 August, say
Bristol branch, has been National Railway this has left them with
re-elected unopposed as Museum in York, which a 13% pay cut, in real
executive committee is part of the Science terms, since 2010.
member for District 7. Andy, Museum Group, ‘Our members love
who joined the railway after staged a 24-hour strike their jobs but they
serving for ten years in the on Friday 30 August cannot carry on with Managers at the National Railway Museum
Royal Navy, was first elected after management year after year of real are stuck in the 1930s on pay rises, say staff
to the EC in August 2014 imposed a below- terms pay cuts,’ said
Andy’s been Labour MP for York management to
when his predecessor, Brian inflation pay rise of Sharon Brown, the
re-elected EC7 Central, joined return with a better
Corbett, became district 1.5%. Members of union’s negotiations
organiser. Andy, who drives for GWR, was re- Prospect, who have officer. workers on the picket offer ‘and ensure their
elected unopposed a year later to serve a full been working to rule Rachael Maskell, line and called on workers are paid fairly.’
four-year term from 2016 to 2019. His new
four-year term runs from January 2020 to
December 2023. Andy was also elected vice-
president of ASLEF’s EC in January this year 40 up ‘We’ve stopped the rot. A bit.’
when Dave Calfe was elected president after Andrew Haines, chief executive of Network Rail, in an interview with
Tosh McDonald stood down. Gwyn Topham, transport correspondent of The Guardian, to mark his
first anniversary in the job: ‘What passengers want, more than anything
else, is a punctual, reliable, train service, and yet it’s been in decline for
Better cabs survey the last seven successive years. We’ve turned it round in the last eight
months and stopped the rot, a bit, but we’ve a long way to go.’
ASLEF is launching a campaign for better cabs. He also said he wants to change NR from ‘a big, slow, bureaucratic
As part of this we need to gather information, company’ into devolved regional units where local managers ‘listen to
and document your experiences, in order to their customers’. Restructuring, he admits, ‘is often code for cutbacks.
bolster our demands for a maximum cab But it is absolutely not in this case.’
temperature, air conditioning, and better
dO1 Graham
ergonomics. We have created an online survey
Morris, who is also
at www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/bettercabs QUOTE…
a member of
which takes less than five minutes to ‘After one particularly poor performance in the Commons, a Tory
London Bridge
complete. If you can complete the survey, and backbencher recalled Michael Gove’s description of Boris Johnson’s
branch, recently
publicise it amongst fellow members, it would gift for pretending to “lose his way in a sentence, like a child in a
awarded London
be really helpful to the campaign. Thank you! nativity play. You want him to succeed and, when he does, you share
Bridge Bro MBF
West his 40 year in his triumph”. The MP despairingly added: “The problem is, the
RAIL LINE POWEREd BY SOLAR FARM badge. crowds outside don’t want him to succeed, so he just looks out of his
A solar farm at Aldershot, in Hampshire, has Ian Penovich, depth”.’ – Stephen Bush, political editor, New Statesman
become the first in the world to power a London Bridge …UNQUOTE
railway line after being plugged into the track branch secretary
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October 2019 l The ASLEF Journal 7
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21st century.
Britain needs HS2 – ‘The Tories talk the talk but, sadly, when it
comes to infrastructure and public services,
but done properly they never walk the walk. Whether it’s
electrification, rolling stock or, now, HS2,
SLEF has backed HS2 in the wake of they pull the plug after millions or even
A government announcements in
early September about – and
billions have already been spent.’
Mick was speaking after Transport
renewed criticism of – the mammoth rail Secretary Grant Shapps admitted that the
project. GS Mick Whelan said: ‘Labour came first phase of HS2, due to open in 2026, will
up with the idea of HS2 but the project has be delayed by up to five years and the cost
‘tories talk the talk but never walk the walk’
been managed – badly mismanaged – by the has soared from £62 billion to between £81
Conservative Party. We need HS2 – but we ahead. and £88 billion. The second phase, to
need it done properly. It should go to ’Passengers and businesses in Britain have Manchester and Leeds, which was due to
Heathrow, and it should go to Scotland. been hampered by the lack of investment in open in 2032, has been pushed back until
'There will be no Northern Powerhouse – infrastructure in our country. Our railway is 2040. And in August the Prime Minister
and no clean, green future for this country – running at full capacity. We need to announced a review of HS2 – ‘go or no-go’ –
if HS2, even in its current form, does not go modernise our network and bring it into the to report by the end of the year.
New lease of life for old signal box
WHEN Richard and Nikki Curzon
left the RAF six years ago, they
splashed out £700,000 on an old
Station House and Signal Box
standing by a disused railway line
in south Devon, spent £20,000
tarting it up, and now live in the
former while renting out the latter
as a self-catering holiday let. the victorian signal box at
‘We wanted a change,’ says loddiswell, near
Richard, 45, who served in the Kingsbridge, south devon
RAF police. ‘And stumbled across the Signal Box brings in £25,000 a
this place, on the old Great year income for us.’
Western Railway Primrose line, a Sherilee Jordan of cottages.com
picturesque route from South adds: ‘People don’t just want a
break these days, they want a
QUOTE…
Brent to Kingsbridge axed by
holiday experience. That’s why ‘Donald Trump is not backing Brexit because he believes it to be
notorious Dr Beeching in 1963.
we’ve seen increased demand for in Britain’s best interests. He is doing so because it would
We did most of the refurbishment
converted churches, railway weaken the EU, which he regards as a threat to US hegemony.
work ourselves, and now the
properties, follies, and toll houses.’ Nor will this predatory “America First” president give Britain
Station House is our home, while
some fantastic trade deal by way of reward. Knowing Britain
will be a supplicant, he would strike the hardest possible
SWR WITHdRAWS REFURBEd PIGS bargain.’ – Martin Fletcher, New Statesman
Thirty-year-old Class 442 locos, nicknamed Plastic Pigs, newly …UNQUOTE
refurbished at a cost of £45 million, and only reintroduced in June,
have been taken out of service by South Western Railway over fears
that they wrongly turn line-side signals yellow or red.
Azuma
SUICIdES SOAR TO 16 YEAR HIGH
New figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal there were meets the
6,507 registered suicides in the UK last year, a rise of 12% on the
previous year and the highest since 2002. Mallard
POLICE HUNT CONCRETE CRETINS LNER launched its
The BTP are looking for ‘three teenage cretins’ who risked the lives of new 125mph Azuma
rail staff and passengers by dumping concrete blocks on the line in services from London Steam locomotive 4468 Mallard joins a Class
Croston, Lancashire, on 14 August. to Edinburgh on the 800 Azuma at York station on 30 July
East Coast main line
on Thursday 1 August Museum by a couple existing trains, and
our new topical tee-shirt, designed by those hoxton with a photo call of DB Cargo Class 66s. state of the art wi-fi.’
hipsters at Philosophy Football, features Rik Mayall putting its new train ‘It’s a real Sixty-five Azumas,
as the obnoxious anarchist Rick in The Young Ones, side by side with the transformation for built by Hitachi at
and this classic exchange: ‘he threw us off the train Mallard, the world’s travel on LNER,’ said Newton Aycliffe in
because you said ASlEF was an anagram for “total fastest steam MD David Horne. County Durham,
and complete bastard”.’ ‘And apart from everything locomotive, which ‘Each Azuma, which is should replace LNER’s
else… it isn’t, even.’ £10 (inc p&p); email info@aslef.org.uk or had been hauled the noticeably quicker, existing fleet of 45
visit our online shop at www.aslef.org.uk short distance from has 100 extra seats trains by summer
the National Railway compared to our 2020.
8 The ASLEF Journal l October 2019
Reports
the way ahead? the
That’s the sound of the men RSSB – committed to
a better, safer railway
working on the chain gang – has published a
new online toolbox
of techniques for
SAM WATERS, senior human factors specialist at train drivers to
the Rail Safety & Standards Board, examines the combat low mental
workload
problem of driver cognitive underload – in
English, a sense of monotony, fatigue, and into a state of underload in order carry.
impaired ability to deal with unexpected situations – and to do something about it. The underload toolbox has
points you to a new set of tools designed to tackle the issue For years, drivers have used a been created by drivers for drivers
variety of techniques to stay alert – to ensure that good practice is
HE rail industry has and cab controls have become in repetitive and monotonous shared throughout the industry. It
T known for years that
high mental workload
easier to operate. These changes
have brought obvious safety and
situations. The RSSB has worked
with drivers to recognise the
is important that all levels within
organisations, from directors to
(overload) can cause people to health benefits; however, this has challenges of underload and the front line, appreciate the
make mistakes. But there has had the unexpected side effect develop a toolbox of different importance of managing
been very little recognition of that the cab environment now techniques that can be used to underload.
what happens when workload is increases the likelihood of reduce the chances of Use of the techniques is
low (underload). Train driving can experiencing underload. experiencing underload. We’re all entirely voluntary, as they are not
be very demanding and require How do you know if you are different and one technique that there to be part of a competence
high levels of concentration; some drifting into a state of underload? works for one person might not assessment. A number of
locations are complex and there Have you ever driven long routes work for another. So you might companies are planning to
can be a lot to take in or there on green aspects with very little need to try various options to see integrate the toolbox into their
may be a fault or an emergency. going on and can’t recall the last what works for you, or change briefings to help raise awareness.
On the other hand, driving a train few minutes? Or do you drive techniques to keep them fresh. More information, including a
can involve long hours of repetitive routes, with little The toolbox explains how to use short video and the underload
repetitive work, which can get variation, stopping at the same each technique, why drivers find toolbox, can be found on the RSSB
monotonous. In these situations, pattern of stations? You may find them effective, and any risks they website.
it can be more difficult to your mind starts to wander and
maintain concentration, and this you begin thinking about other
can lead to mistakes. things that don’t relate to driving n ASLEF supports the outcomes of the RSSB’s Project
Over the years, the design of the train or your route. You may T1133 on driver cognitive underload. But an EC res on
train cabs has changed the task of find yourself asking: what aspect 5 August adds: ‘The use of the cognitive underload toolbox
the driver. Cabs are designed to was my last signal? Did I stop at is voluntary and should not form any part of a driver’s
be more comfortable through the correct stop car mark? These
competence assessment.’
temperature controls and experiences may be a sign of
adjustable seating positions. As underload. It is important to
technologies advance, traction identify when you begin to drift
ASLEF takes Pride
dARRAN BROWN, secretary of
ASLEF’s LGBT+ Representatives’
Committee, reflects on the
Pride of our union
S THE Pride season comes to an end
A and I look back over the past few
months, I do so with a sense of
achievement. Not that many years ago we
were lucky if the LGBT+ banner was seen on
any marches but, this year, ASLEF flags were
seen up and down the country at many None of this could be achieved without the
events. hard work of the LGBT+ committee and the
Members marched in Brighton, Edinburgh, support of the EC, the president, the general
Glasgow, Liverpool and London. For a union of secretary, district officers, and Lee James,
only 20,500 members, who work in a seven ASLEF’s equalities adviser, whose hard work
days a week, 24 hours a day industry, to have made much of this possible, and, most
such great turnouts from LGBT+ members and importantly, the members who turned out to
allies is wonderful. support equality and inclusion. This is
We also hosted the largest LGBT+ social something in which we can all take Pride, that
event so far, taking over a whole floor in a pub, our union is doing what a good union does in
with members travelling to London in their standing up for its members, in a world that,
own time from as far as Plymouth, Scotland sadly, is becoming less tolerant. Thank you and this could be Rotterdam or anywhere,
and Wales. For many this was the first time I hope to see ASLEF’s LGBT+ banners flying at liverpool or Rome. Actually, it’s ASlEF in
they had taken part in anything ASLEF-related. as many, if not more, events next year. action in london, liverpool, and Edinburgh
October 2019 l The ASLEF Journal 9
Platform
Four Tops all night, charging from the bass knives to the treble, but on stage they ain’t got no roots rock rebel
I’m the white man in
Hammersmith Palais
England, like the United States, is a nation of
immigrants. 1,500 years ago the migration
of Angles, Saxons, Frisians and Jutes from
northern Europe (what would later become
Germany and denmark) led to the formation, under Joe Strummer on stage with the Clash at Us in Glen
helen Park, San Bernardino, California, on
Æthelstan, of Angle-land. GREGOR GALL enjoys the
Saturday 28 May 1983; the President and his lap
irony of Home Secretary Priti Patel, the daughter of dog at the G7 summit at Biarritz in August; and the
immigrants, wanting to ‘pull up the drawbridge’ as four left-wing US Congresswomen – Ayanna
donald Trump and Boris Johnson play the race card Presley, ilhan omar, Rashida tlaib and Alexandria
ahead of a presidential – and general – election ocasio-Cortez – who trump says should ‘go home’
ELL into Ronald Reagan’s first There were seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms – define what it means to be American. He is
W presidency, Joe Strummer, lead
singer of punk pioneers The Clash,
Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex,
Sussex, Wessex, and Kent – which were
using this construction to bolster his appeal to
his core vote while he presides over growing
harangued an audience of 150,000 at the Us eventually united under Æthelstan, as King of economic disunity and inequality. It is a
festival in California in 1983: ‘If there’s anything England, in 927. It was not until relatively diversionary, but also selectively unifying,
in the future, it’s going to be from all parts of recently that Great Britain (England, Scotland pitch.
everything – not just one white way down the and Wales) was created and then, later, the Back across the pond, we wait to see how
middle of the road.’ United Kingdom (Great Britain and Ireland). the supposedly cosmopolitan and liberal Boris
I was reminded of this when Donald Trump Johnson will act. The omens are not good. Not
attacked four Democrat Congresswomen, THE LEGENdARY POLISH PLUMBER only has he packed his cabinet with ministers
telling them to ‘go home’. All four first-term And, much more recently, we have seen the who are anti-immigrant (including some of
members of the House of Representatives are internal migration of Scots, Irish and Welsh immigrant heritage such as Sajid Javid, Priti
US citizens and all but one were born in the into England and external migration from the Patel and James Cleverly) but, as Brexit – deal
United States. But none of the four is white. Windrush generation. The legendary ‘Polish or no deal – moves into the end game, the
plumber’ is just the latest in a long line of notion of what it means to be British will take
GIVE ME YOUR TIREd, YOUR POOR, examples dating back more than 2,000 years. on even greater significance.
YOUR HUddLEd MASSES But what’s the point of this potted history He will, probably, try to pitch ‘all of us
In a country established by the genocide of lesson? It’s that nations are ‘imagined together’ against Johnny Foreigner, like those
native American Indians, the importing of communities’, a phrase coined by Benedict cheese-eating surrender monkeys (the French)
millions of black slaves from Africa, and then Anderson in 1983. He didn’t mean that nations while it will be towels at dawn on the beaches
being populated by Irish, Scots, Poles, are fake but, rather, conscious human against the Germans. Social class will play no
Germans, Italians, Russians, Mexicans, Turks, constructions. There is a perception involved part as this shows we are not ‘all of us together’.
Armenians (limitations on space lead me to in making them and holding them together –
stop here but you get the point), we can get, and that perception can comprise different A NEW VERSION OF BRITISHNESS
nonetheless, a good sense of the sort of racist components and be influenced by different Johnson has the arrogance and the guile to
campaign Trump will wage when he runs for people in different ways. develop his own new version of Britishness for
re-election. Nations are not old and timeless, and these purposes. Recall his ability to engage in
But, as peoples of the British Isles, we are certainly not God-given, and it can be difficult ‘fake news’ about the EU as the Daily
also of mixed origin and heritage. We may, to say exactly what the differences are Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent years
with the exception of the likes of London and between one nation and another (given that before the term was even invented. Britishness
Birmingham, look a less ethnically diverse they are supposed to be defined by having key will, in essence, mean Englishness as he’s likely
citizenry, but that’s only when you see the differentiating characteristics). to calculate the Scots and Welsh are pretty
colour of our skin. Which takes us back to Trump’s America. In much no-hopers for him. Though Englishness,
The BBC documentary series The Blood of trying to ‘make America great again’, Trump is funnily enough, will keep on board the
the Vikings in 2001 showed how people from using his version of white nationalism to Democratic Unionist Party in Ulster…
one part of Europe moved around and settled
elsewhere in significant numbers. In this case
it was people from what is now called LET YOUR KINGdOM COME
Scandinavia and was proven by DNA testing Britain, from the Latin Britannia, and Britannicus, was what became, long after
comparing white Britons with white Swedes the Roman legions had left, England and Wales; while Great Britain refers to
and Norwegians. England, Scotland, and Wales (and meant an enlarged Britain rather than any
The main peoples who lived in the British supposed status in the world). The crowns of England and Scotland were united in
Isles before the Romans, under Julius Caesar, 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of England but, politically, the
invaded in 55BC comprised the Celts and Picts two countries were not united until the Act of Union of 1707 created the United
who were displaced, after 410AD, by the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Act of Union of 1801 created the United Kingdom of
Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians and Danes. One Great Britain and Ireland which, in 1922, became the United Kingdom of Great
of the few original and lasting peoples of Britain and Northern Ireland.
these isles are the Irish.
10 The ASLEF Journal l October 2019tUC
Brighton rocks
SLEF sent six delegates – Mick
A Whelan, general secretary; Simon
Weller, assistant general secretary;
Dave Calfe, executive committee president;
Darran Brown of Preston branch; Mark Prenter
of Waterloo Nine Elms; and Tracy Whitbread of
Didcot – to the 151st Trades Union Congress
held in Brighton from Sunday 8 to Wednesday
11 September. EC vice-president Andy Hudd;
EC members Marz Colombini, Howard Kaye,
John Metcalfe and Mark Wakenshaw; district
organisers Finn Brennan, Brian Corbett, Dicky
Fisher and Nigel Gibson; and WRC chair
Deborah Reay all attended as visitors.
The slogan for congress – a new deal for
QUOTE…
working people – was embraced by reps
‘On the defining issue of the day –
organising to build a better Britain – for the
Brexit – we have kept the
many, not the few – of which we can all be
government’s feet to the fire and
proud.
battled to put jobs, rights, and peace
Delegates from 48 unions, representing 5.5
in Ireland high up the political
million trade union members, gathered on the
agenda.’ – Frances O’Grady,
south coast for the annual parliament of the
general secretary, TUC
movement. There were passionate debates on
transport, education, public service pensions, …UNQUOTE
privatisation, low pay, sectoral collective
bargaining, industrial strategy, climate change, to meet activists from other unions who face
equalities and, of course, Brexit. similar challenges in different industries. ‘We’re
As well as motions on the conference floor, all doing the same job – representing our
and fringe meetings every lunchtime and members – against intransigent employers ASlEF in action at the trades Union Congress
evening, congress offered delegates a chance and a hostile government,’ said Mick. n Congress photos by Andrew Wiard
Rail the clean green answer double header
AGS Simon Weller made two
ICK Whelan was first out ‘I know there are difficulties for thoughtful speeches to congress
M of the traps when our
motion – on creating a
many trade unionists in dealing
with this issue. Some of our
on Tuesday. In the morning he
seconded an RMT motion on the
green transport system in this members have jobs that are safety of railwaymen and women
country – was first up as part of reliant on fossil fuels and nobody in the light of the two track
the transport debate which wants any worker sold down the workers who died at Margam,
kicked off congress on Sunday river. That is why we need an South Wales, on 3 July, and the
Mick moves our green transport
afternoon. industrial strategy that focuses on shocking 27% increase in assaults
motion on Sunday afternoon
The GS said: ‘Comrades, for green infrastructure. on rail staff. And in the afternoon
many years, climate change, for With all crises come a cleaner, greener world. he addressed the distressing issue
too many, was a peripheral issue. opportunities. New jobs. Skilled ‘We need a system that of period poverty when low-
A hobby horse for a certain type jobs. Unionised jobs. A just recognises transport modes income families, unable to afford
of activist. Well, congress, no transition. should not compete with but sanitary products, are forced to
longer. Climate change has to be ‘Transport is the largest complement each other. The improvise, miss school, or take
a priority for us all because it is polluter in terms of CO2 railway must be electrified – so time off work.
now affecting us all. emissions. The latest figures show we must reverse the Tories’
‘And, like so many crises, it will that 33% of carbon dioxide broken promises and call for an
be working people, the poorly emissions are from the transport even bolder programme of
paid, and the most vulnerable, sector. But rail accounts for less electrification. And we must
who suffer first. It’s not just the than 2%. Rail is far cleaner, and far recognise that our railway is at
plains of Africa and the rainforests greener, than road and air. capacity – we must re-open old
that have endangered species. If more people travelled by lines and build new lines and, yes,
In the Shetlands, in little under train, and bus, rather than in cars that must include HS2.
20 years, the puffin population or planes, and if we moved more ‘Congress, the challenge of
has plummeted from 33,000 to freight onto our railways and climate change requires big, bold Simon at the podium on tuesday
just 570. waterways, then we would live in answers so let us create modern,
green, high quality infrastructure
‘Brighton is a town that
The doors of perception and modern, green, high quality
jobs.’ always looks as if it is
The ASLEF train crew was happy to spot a familiar – and friendly – The motion, seconded by helping the police with
face on the main door of the Brighton Centre. Big Bill Baxter, of Keeley Lipscombe of the TSSA, their inquiries’
Southport, has been a TUC steward since 2007 and an ASLEF and supported by James Mitchell – Keith Waterhouse
stalwart since he joined the railway. of Unite, was carried unanimously.
October 2019 l The ASLEF Journal 11Agenda
Fight back starts in the classroom
AVE Calfe moved our generation of workers, safety, to name just a few. relevance for them, and the
d motion on ‘trade
unionism and
collectivism in the curriculum’
particularly in the private sector,
where most young workers are, is
key to continuing to increase
‘In the modern workplace,
when technological change
comes, or unscrupulous
narrative of the mainstream
media does nothing to help. The
most powerful way to change that
during the education debate on union membership. employers try to save a few quid narrative is education. The more
Monday morning. ‘We all know that when by cutting staff or relaxing safety we share our successes online, the
The EC president said: ‘Despite workers are unionised, procedures, it’s only workers wider our good news will spread,
the good news that trade union workplaces are safer, with higher standing together in a union who but we need to take that message
membership increased last year pay, better conditions and can stop the exploitation. into schools. There is no reason
by 100,000 to 6.35 million – a holidays, and harassment and ‘Why, then, do some people why school curriculums shouldn’t
fourth increase in the last seven bullying will be called out and not want this protection? Why include working people’s history –
years – just one in ten workers dealt with. Unions fought for a don’t they join a union? One of the Tolpuddle, Peterloo, Burston strike
aged 20 to 24 is in a union whilst living wage, the weekend, annual reasons cited, particularly by school, the Bryant & May
nearly 77% of union members are leave, parental rights, flexible younger people, is that they don’t matchworkers, Shrewsbury 24,
over 35. Organising the next working, equality, and health & know what unions are for, their and the 1984-85 miners’ strike.
emissions than other rail improves safety local journeys to be
Industrial strategy with modes of transport. and helps reduce completed by road.
Improvements to the congestion but the ‘This development
rail freight at its heart rail network, for both industry is vulnerable must be part of a
passengers and to market forces, relies comprehensive
RACY destruction the Tory freight, will make a on government national industrial
T Whitbread
called for an
industrial strategy ‘fit
government has
wrought on industry
in this country is not
significant
contribution to
grants, and is
inadvertently
strategy, taking
account of spatial
industrial success. Rail disadvantaged by the planning guidance,
tracy at the podium
for the future with just careless, it’s freight is a particularly subsidies afforded to and how the rail
on tuesday morning
fairness, green unconscionable. Our important, yet often road users. An efficient network can best
technologies – and rail proud history as an that the next Labour overlooked, element freight system, fit for serve manufacturing
freight – at its heart.’ industrial nation has government of this work. Long- the future, would see hubs, as well as
She was seconding a been steadily prioritises the distance freight a strategic mix of rail, infrastructure funding.
motion on ‘an dismantled, with no development of an movements on rail waterways, and road We urgently need to
industrial strategy to regard for the industrial strategy to produce 76% less to move freight re-balance our
deliver real change’, communities around re-invigorate our carbon dioxide around the country, economy and deliver
moved by Len the country who have country and emissions than the taking advantage of an industrial strategy
McCluskey, general lost livelihoods in the communities. equivalent HGV cleaner rail for long- fit for the future with
secretary of Unite, on closures of everything ‘In the rail sector journey, and 90% less distance journeys and fairness, green
Tuesday morning. from factories to we are fortunate that PM10 particulates. developing efficient technologies – and rail
She said: ‘The steelworks. It’s vital rail produces lower ‘Moving freight by interchanges to allow freight – at its heart.’
Clear and present danger Breaking the cycle of hate
ARK Prenter spoke in favour of a Unite
M motion on ‘the climate crisis and a just
transition’ on Tuesday afternoon.
‘Climate change is a real and present danger d
ARRAN Brown called for trade unions to be at the forefront of the
fight against homophobic and transphobic hate crimes on
Wednesday afternoon.
to working people which will affect every living ‘We are here in Brighton, a safe bastion for lGBt+ people. Many cities
being on our planet. For too long we’ve been have vibrant, safe, lGBt+ communities. But all too often we see lGBt+
told the younger generation aren’t politically people covered in blood, beaten, assaulted, devastated, and what we see is
active. Well, the wonderful young workers we just the tip of the iceberg. Sorry for mentioning the B word but, since the
have in this room and the amazing work of vote, a door has opened where people viewed as different can be freely
climate activists dispels that nonsense. abused. these hate attacks take place on buses, trains, the street, and the darran: ‘A friend
‘Jobs will change. The way we work will workplace, with little regard to any consequences, and few prosecutions. of dorothy, not
change. But our struggle for fair pay, job security, thatcher’s Section 28 tried to push lGBt+ people back into Narnia – that’s Boris Johnson’
and decent conditions will not. A just transition where some believe we are from. oh, and Kansas. Well, i’d rather be a friend
to a low carbon economy must have trade of dorothy than a friend of Boris Johnson!
unions at its heart, to ensure ‘Now we see schools facing protests for teaching equality and respect for all. there are even
working people are not left Conservative MPs who suggest teaching lGBt+ equality at home! if they don’t want it taught
behind, but are at the in schools, what chance is there of it being taught at home? Education is the best way to break
forefront of new industries. the cycle of hate. We must not go back to the days of Section 28.
‘Climate change has been ‘For those who like figures, you won’t like these: 40% of all reported hate crime was violent.
one of the free market’s Four in five (81%) of victims don’t report to the police. And i’m sorry to say i’m part of the 81%.
biggest failures. Dealing with But no more. No more! Worst affected are trans. two in five trans people reported abuse,
it must be one of the trade trebling between 2017-18.
Prenter making union movement’s greatest ‘hate, prejudice, and intolerance are taught. let us be at the forefront of the fight for
his Mark at tUC successes.’ equality and bring an end to those images of bloodied, beaten victims.’
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