'Winter of discontent' for rail.RAIL users have been warned to expect a "winter of discontent The "Winter of Discontent" is a term used to describe the British winter of 1978–1979, during which there were widespread strikes by trade unions demanding larger pay rises for their members, and the government of James Callaghan struggled to cope. " after a passenger group said no performance improvement was in sight. Travellers could be in for "a rough ride this winter", said Stewart Stewart, river, Canada Stewart, river, 331 mi (533 km) long, rising in the Mackenzie Mts., central Yukon Territory, Canada, and flowing generally W to the Yukon River S of Dawson. Francis Francis, French prince, duke of Alençon and Anjou Francis, 1554–84, French prince, duke of Alençon and Anjou; youngest son of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. , chairman of the Rail Passengers Council. In his council's annual report, he said passengers had recently endured "some of the worst performance on Britain's railways for decades". To complete another bad railway day, the Health and Safety Executive announced that incidents of trains passing signals at danger had increased from 31 in July July: see month. 2000 to 50 in July 2001. Rail complaints fell by 4 per cent last year, but ut this was largely due to a different method for counting complaints. |
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