I'm public, Id like to know if there is another session in Bristol or on a train from Bristol before December 2011.
With respect, if, for example, a MTM is in December, October is surely suifficient notice? Indeed, a month is ample,
IMHO▸ .
As for minute breaks in a franchise.... the specific commitments are there whether you or anyone else likes it or not. FGW▸ signed up to those commitments - the big ones and the small ones - so I see no difference based on a arbitrary definition of the minuteness of the commitment.
If Chiltern can be fined for being a month late knocking up a platform shelter.....
Here we go again - I've already explained elsewhere.
That was a very minor infirngement which, on it's own, wouldn't have necessitated a fine.
What they got fined for was passing
PSR▸ services to
WSMR▸ , who they also own. Effectively allowing farebox raids on their income. Totally against franchise rules, and they knew it too.
The maximum fine was 10% of their annual revenue, so ^350,000 is avery minor fine.
They were also losing the open stops at Banbury / Leamington which started the farebox raids - something I believe that was the final nail in WSMR - not that it ever made any money, losing ^1million or more every year. Great service, wrong destination.
That's what they got fined for - the other minor breaches were added to the charge sheet to completely clear them of every wrong 'un.