You want to see it during the RMT strike and overtime ban. It's ok to compromise safety in a strike about safety when you strike. Like I say, if they went all out until it was resolved safety wouldn't be risked.

Wasn't that the Conductors? Like I say, if it was all about safety they'd be all out as they wouldn't want to compromise their obvious principles by making things unsafe when they're on strike.

Edited by Helmet46 (10 Jan 2017 8.48pm)

So there were more or less no trains today and loads of people worked from home.
When it's just RMT and overtime ban (so every other day) the trains run but there are a lot less, they go to different stations, tend to be shorter (so Southern put fewer carriages on as they think they can get away with blaming the staff for that, I suspect) and a full commute. The net effect is massive overcrowding on both platforms and trains - so an awful lot more danger.
Ironically I arrived at Upper Warlingham on Friday and our 'guard' just stuck his head out of the cab window where the train joined, looked up and down and that was it. Phew, thank goodness for that. I felt a lot safer after seeing that.

Although I don't know why we need to argue about who has been on the more dangerous train! Just saying the Thameslink trains today didn't indicate to me that anyone had chose to work from home. I've never been so crushed before that I was barely able to breathe that's all. About a third of the people on the platform weren't even allowed to get on our train due to the overcrowding.

That's cool, I was intending to agree with you and then wasn't sure if I'd made it sound like I was trying to "out-dangerous" you!

You were lucky to get a train, we have none at all from Thornton Heath.