Northern (Arriva Rail North)

[Sprinterdriver]

RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(08/01/2018 17:24)knut
stransport Wrote:  My understanding is the franchise agreement requires them to plan to have a second member of staff on board but under certain circumstances if the second member of staff is unavailable they aren't required to cancel the service. The specific circumstances are not included in the public version of the franchise agreement. I believe in the eventual agreement between ASLEF and Southern it was agreed industrial action won't be used as a reason for running a service without a second member of staff.

I also thought, based on their own press releases, the furthest the RMT are willing to go is driver opens the doors and guard closes and dispatches and unless Northern agree to the guard closing and dispatching (which would require DfT to sign off a change to the franchise agreement) they refuse to meet to discuss further.

Which basically means trains will run with just a Driver on.

The RMT asked for a Scotrail type scenario where the Driver opens and the Guard closes, thus meaning there has to be a Guard for the train to run and they have to be safety trained.



SD.