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Originally Posted by john johnson
There was a jumper in front of the train on Friday when I was going to Birmingham new street , caused chaos ... Twit
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Price?... about £800,000 at a guess for that on a Friday into a busy Midlands hub.... A cost not to the Train Operators, after all, its not their fault, nor is it Network Rails... Nope, it's paid for by the Department for Transport... eg, the Tax payer... So, delay minutes, and attributable delays (eg, late trains making right time trains late further into their journeys) just spiral, then, inevitably most passengers are eligible for a partial or full refund, then there's the cost of losing a driver(s) for a couple of weeks and covering their work on overtime/rest days.... And the cost of mobilising (us) incident response and it all gets fiscally very serious.... But the psychological scars are far more extensive for some of the drivers, with their careers ended, or domestic breakup, or depression.
On the bright side, most of them are back driving within a week or so, and are generally no worse for wear.... Other than a rather macabre sense of humour....