Southern tried to run too many trains on poor infrastructure: report

Strikes were ‘primary cause’ of failings but says all elements of system were under strain, report rail network saysSouthern rail was attempting to run too many trains on poor and unreliable infrastructure, a delayed report into the crisis on Britain’s worst-performing rail network shows. The government-commissioned report by the Network Rail director, Chris Gibb, pins strike action by unions as “the primary cause for system integrity to fail” in 2016. Continue read