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Wednesday 24th April 2013

The meeting will be held at Tony Benn House, Bristol, starting at 7pm. Please come along, support your branch and join in.

Save Our Railways - No to McNulty

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FGW Train Services

First Great Western Train services FirstGroup's rip-off railway:
* sky-high profits for Fat Cats;
* rocketing fare increases and;
* looming service cuts.

Stroud MP, David Drew is calling for First Great Western Train Services to be run in the public sector. Read Early Day Motion 1447 here and Early Day Motion 546here. Call on the Government to bring First Great Western back into public ownership. Contact your MP here and ask them to sign.

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Free Osanloo!

Take Action Today!
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International Transport Workers' Federation - ITF Global Action Day, 6 March 2008 - see photos here - to express solidarity with Iranian workers. Iranian bus workers' leader, Mansour Osanloo, is in prison on trumped-up charges of criticising the Iranian regime - in reality because he is a member of an independent trade union. We want Mansour Osanloo released safely, immediately and unconditionally.
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Protest At Train Services Cuts!
45 MPs have now signed EDM 311 - Updates here

Stop Lib Dem Cuts - Defend the Severn Beach railway line read more here.

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April 22, 2013

April Branch Meeting

Our April branch meeting will be held on Wednesday 24th April 2013 at Tony Benn House, Bristol, starting at 7pm.

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March 25, 2013

Action for Rail campaign

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Wednesday 27th March 2013

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March Branch Meeting

Our March branch meeting will be held on Wednesday 27th March 2013 at Tony Benn House, Bristol, starting at 7pm.

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March 21, 2013

Level crossing crash in Athelney, Somerset - one person killed

BBC News: 21st March 2013

One person died when a train hit a car on a level crossing in Somerset.

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March 5, 2013

Branch Meetings 2013

COME ALONG TO YOUR RMT BRISTOL BRANCH MEETING ...
19.00 hours - dates and locations as show below

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February 12, 2013

February Branch Meeting

Our February branch meeting will be held on Monday 18th February 2013 at The King George VI, near Filton Abbey Wood station, starting at 7pm.

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The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track - BBC TV programme

The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track - BBC TV programme showing Tuesday 12th Feb at 9PM.
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January 9, 2013

January Branch Meeting

Our January branch meeting will be held on Monday 14th January 2013 at Avon Fire Brigades Headquarters starting at 7pm.

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December 14, 2012

Annual General Meeting

Our branch Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 17th December 2012 at The Ship Inn, Redcliffe, starting at 7pm.

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November 29, 2012

Work starts to fix railway landslip near Bristol

BBC News: 29 November 2012
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Work has begun to bring in more than 4,000 tonnes of earth to shore up a landslip on a rail line near Bristol.

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November 28, 2012

Landslip disrupts rail services near Bristol

BBC News: 28 November 2012
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Rail services between Birmingham and south-west England are disrupted after a landslip near Bristol.

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November 27, 2012

December Branch Meeting

Our December branch meeting will be held on Monday 3rd December 2012 at Avon Fire Brigades Headquarters starting at 7pm.

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November 16, 2012

Special November Branch Meeting: Long Membership Awards

The November branch meeting, is a special meeting and will be held on Monday 19th November 2012.

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October 15, 2012

RMT response to Virgin West Coast stitch up

RMT General Secretary Bob Crow on Virgin West Coast contract. "This announcement is no surprise. The Government are ideologically opposed to public ownership of the railways and, in collusion with the private train operators, have stitched up a shabby deal that will enable them to rerun the whole franchise fiasco in a years time.

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October 14, 2012

October Branch Meeting

Our October branch meeting will be held on Monday 15th October at The Ship Inn, Redcliffe starting at 7pm.

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September 8, 2012

The Coalition isn't Working - Public Meeting - Weston-super-Mare

THE COALITION ISN'T WORKING
THE COALITION ISN'T WORKING
THE ALTERNATIVE TO THE CUTS

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September Branch Meeting

Our September branch meeting will be held on Monday 17th September at The Ship Inn, Redcliffe starting at 7pm.

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August 17, 2012

August Branch Meeting

Monday 20th August 2012

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August 16, 2012

West Coast franchise battle goes off rails

Morning Star 15 August 2012 by Tony Patey, Industrial Reporter

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Rail privatisation descended deeper today into the messy hell predicted two decades ago as profit-chasers squabbled over the fate of the key West Coast main line franchise.

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Taxpayers AND passengers worse off under privatisation.

The Mirror 15 Aug 2012

The Mirror's: political editor Jason Beattie's analysis

Among the worst legislation over the past 50 years, it is hard to top John Major’s Railways Act which came into force on April 1, 1994.

Defying all logic, responsibility for the tracks was handed to Railtrack, which soon went bust, and the trains to the train operating companies.


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The great train fare robbery: We already pay up to 10 times more than in Europe... now they're rocketing again

The Mirror By Mark Ellis 15 Aug 2012

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The Mirror can today reveal how the fat controllers of our privatised railways run a gravy train of profit – with ­passengers ripped off compared to our European neighbours.

As the latest rises send rail fares crashing through the buffers, we highlight how much more Brits are charged than those on the continent for similar-length journeys.

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July 1, 2012

Labour backs plans to return railway network to public control

The Guardian: By Toby Helm, 30 June 2012
Sweeping reform would begin with renationalisation of key routes and end franchising of services

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June 22, 2012

Bristol's £100m Metro rail bid for Government cash

The Post June 22, 2012

A £100 MILLION bid to make Bristol's Metro rail dream a reality has gone to the Government.

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Passenger trains from Bristol to Portishead and new stations in Horfield, Ashley Down and Saltford are among the items on the shopping list of transport leaders who have put the Greater Bristol Metro Rail bid together.

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Cameron G20 missteps point to wider UK problems

Reuters Jun 21, 2012 By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent

Accused of irritating France and Russia, frustrating the United States and falling into a testy exchange with Argentina over the Falklands, David Cameron's G20 summit didn't go well.

As he returns from Mexico, the British prime minister is probably hoping to put the series of apparent diplomatic missteps behind him, but it may not be that easy.

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June 16, 2012

Derby mourns deal blow

Morning Star: By Paddy McGuffin, Friday 15 June 2012
Derby workers at Britain's last train-building firm reflected today on the one-year anniversary of a £1.4 billion government contract sent abroad that put their future in doubt - and which still hasn't been signed.

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