WHAT a wonderful series of features Driving Through the Changes on the ECML was. Mick Ingledew (right) has so much to tell from all those years of experience. Are we to see a book on sale one day, Mick? I was amazed to read how Mick received a phone call in the middle of the night to be told he was the nearest suitable driver available to drive one of the company's premier express trains waiting 250 miles away. 'United we stand divided we fall' is a motto in use all over the world and it also applies to the UK railways in their splintered state. I don't know how many train companies have drivers stationed between Newcastle and Aberdeen, but what I do know is that because of the madness the railways work under, without people like Mick going the extra (250) mile there would be many more cancellations than there are now.
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