Summer strikes disrupt Europe's travel

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Connecting the #Atocha and #Chamartin #railway stations in #Madrid (#Spain) to ensure interconnection of high speed #railservices!

#CEFTransport supporting #rail services throughout the #EU
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https://europa.eu/!K39jvt

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/cinea_eu/status/1651133766318825472

A massive strike is underway in Britain, or more accurately a series of ... from the general strike of 1926 all the way through to the miners' ...
Irish Examiner view: Could such action happen here?
Irish Examiner view: Could such action happen here?

Irishexaminer.com

"How will anybody who is blind, disabled or needing any assistance get on and off a train with no conductor or ticket office staff to help them?"

This is a particular issue for people travelling to stations that are not wheelchair accessible (including those like my local station where there is a ramp but the only way you could pull open the gate at the top if you are alone in a wheelchair would be to have a shepherd's crook).

#RailServices
#RailTravel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-64161363?at_link_origin=BBC_North_West

Cuts to railway staffing will isolate disabled, charity says

Plans to close ticket offices and remove train guards will isolate disabled people, a charity says.

BBC News

Just a thought: if rail services are deemed so important that strikes should be made illegal so as not to disrupt essential travel should those services be delivered by privatised companies whose duty to the shareholder trumps duty to the travelling public?

#RailServices

There aren't any trains from my local station this morning. I've not seen any breakfast television, did Richard Madeley have a hissy fit about the Chief Executive of Northern Rail spoiling Christmas?

#RailStrikes
#RailServices
#NorthernFail