I have been informed that a certain amount of psychological profiling goes on in the selection process for new train drivers, which offers the interesting prospect of selecting for people who actively enjoy driving a train. Such recruits would be less willing to leap out on strike at the behest of some puffed-up union official, who wants to get his ugly mug on TV, as it would ruin the train driver’s day.
Even better, if the profiling could be extended to finding people who would actually be willing to pay for the privilege of being allowed to drive a train, then we would be on the way to a wonderful age of the railways in the 21st century, with happy drivers, happy customers because the trains are actually running and happy railway other ranks because the customers don't keep annoying them by asking where their bloody (strike-bound) train is.
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