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Adjudication Connex South Eastern Limited v MJ Building Services Group plc Connex SE submitted that it was "an abuse of process" for MJ to start adjudication proceedings so long after it purported on 29 November 2002 to accept a repudiation of the contract by Connex SE. Connex SE submitted that Parliament was content for adjudication to take place after the cessation of work because this was seen in the context of a procedure which was (a) quick, (b) cheap and (c) a temporary decision. Connex SE argued that if, as a result of the passage time, it was no longer possible to have a quick, cheap and temporary adjudication, then it was an abuse of process to permit an adjudication to take place. www.atkinson-law.com /cases/CasesArticles/Cases/Article_202.htm   (1074 words)

SRA Blamed In Connex 'fiasco' - WhichOption The public accounts committee's report on the franchise found that Connex and the SRA did not communicate enough and that the SRA was slow to realise the difficulties Connex was in. Connex was granted the 15-year south-eastern franchise in 1996 but it was terminated in 2003 after the SRA decided it was not doing enough to improve poor performance. The committee did praise the transfer of the franchise to South Eastern Trains but said that there were lessons to be learnt for the future, adding that allowing "hope to triumph over experience" in franchise bids should never happen again. www.whichoption.com /sra-blamed-in-connex-fiasco.html   (251 words)

UK National Audit Office Value for Money Report Executive Summary - The South Eastern Passenger Rail Franchise The South Eastern Pasenger Rail Franchise part one franchising issues are not straightforward, because the SRA organised its team in a different way to the structure that the Department has now adopted for its teams. CSE had engaged consultants to help it develop an improved financial model, as required by the SRA, and another set of consultants at a cost of £400,000 to identify ways of reducing costs and minimising CSE’s call on the public purse. CSE was therefore prepared to accept subsidies totalling £383 million to operate the franchise until December 2006. www.nao.org.uk /publications/nao_reports/05-06/0506457es.htm   (5555 words)

ePolitix.com - Watchdog probes Connex franchise failings South Eastern Trains, which is a subsidiary of the SRA, took over the franchise. Connex ran into financial difficulties early in the life of its franchise, which it had won with an ambitious bid in 1996 when the government was awarding franchises to bidders requiring the lowest subsidies. CSE failed to achieve expected reductions in operating costs because, in common with other TOCs, its wage and driver costs were much higher than anticipated, says the NAO. www.epolitix.com /EN/News/200512/752a315b-0b35-4fae-8315-0ed1d0964063.htm   (341 words)

News | Telegraph Connex yesterday became the first private rail operator to be stripped of its franchise after being accused of financial mismanagement and poor service. In December Connex was given a £58 million lifeline and told that its franchise would end in 2006 rather than 2011. Connex was originally given a 15-year franchise to enable it to recoup its investment in rolling stock to replace old "unsafe" slam-door carriages. www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/28/nrail28.xml   (678 words)

Connex South East   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Connex South Eastern, a former train operator in south-east England. Connex South Eastern is one of the busiest rail networks in Britain... Connex run passenger train services in south-east London, Kent, Sussex and parts of Surrey, and many bus routes in London and the south-east. uktraintimes.ismstrain.com /connexsoutheast   (917 words)

UK National Audit Office press notice - Department of.. - Report title Connex ran into financial difficulties early in the life of its franchise, which it had won with an ambitious bid in 1996 when the government was typically awarding franchises to bidders requiring the lowest subsidies. CSE failed to achieve expected reductions in operating costs because, in common with other TOCs, its wage and driver costs were much higher than anticipated. CSE was given a deadline of 31 March 2003 to improve its financial management, control and reporting. www.nao.org.uk /pn/05-06/0506457.htm   (1186 words)

Connex - RecipeFacts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Connex South Central and South Eastern were generally loathed by its passengers, who faced a deteriorating service quality, extensive delays and massive overcrowding. In the Czech Republic Connex is the largest bus operator, after a 2002 take-over of the Slezsko regional network in Silesia. In Canada, Connex was awarded an operations and maintenance contract for the Viva bus rapid transit network in York Region (north of Toronto) for its first five years of service beginning in September 2005. www.recipeland.com:8080 /facts/Connex   (953 words)

House of Commons - Transport - Minutes of Evidence Mr Verster: Just to explain it for South Eastern Trains, or Connex South Eastern at the time, and I was not involved with the company, I joined in January of this year. It was the Railtrack view that you could not look at South West in isolation, you had to look at the whole of the Southern Region and all of the users, so you had to have a totally integrated approach to upgrading the power supply for the whole of the Southern. Mr Verster: In the case of South Eastern Trains, we are in a slightly different position from the other two operators, in the sense that we have benefited from network upgrades associated with the introduction of the Networker a number of years ago and also the introduction of the Eurostar. www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmtran/836/4070703.htm   (2317 words)

Connex Employment Tribunal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Connex South Eastern was less concerned about the safety of its staff and passengers than in its public image and cost savings. Connex South Eastern had reached the ‘ridiculous’ stage of having 6 to 7 Final Warnings outstanding against Mr Holden. The conduct of Connex South Eastern was such that Mr Holden was entitled to treat his Contract of Employment as fundamentally broken. www.labournet.net /ukunion/0203/connex1.html   (300 words)

LIST OF CASES / Fennelly v Connex South Eastern Ltd CA 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Fennelly v Connex South Eastern Ltd [2001] IRLR 390, Court of Appeal on 11th December 2000. Mr Fennelly sued Connex South Eastern in the High Court on the basis that they were vicariously responsible for the unlawful actions of their employee, Mr Sparrow. Connex South Eastern argued that they were not liable as Mr Sparrow had not been acting in the course of his employment when he attacked Mr Fennelly. www.emplaw.co.uk /load/4frame/data/01irl390.htm?PageTitle=LIST%20OF%20CASES%20%2F%20Fennelly%20v%20Connex%20South%20Eastern%20Ltd%20CA%202001   (387 words)

Guardian | Failing Connex given £58m rescue Connex South Eastern, which consistently comes close to the bottom of the country's rail league for reliability, will receive the money from the strategic rail authority in return for a cut in the length of its franchise. Connex is among the least successful train operators to emerge from rail privatisation. Connex has complained that there is little it can do to improve the service because tracks in the south-east are running at capacity, while fares and timetables are determined by regulators. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4565831-103690,00.html   (340 words)

Connex South Eastern Breaks Employment Laws and Health and Safety Regulations............... Connex SE took over from an organization that already had a reputation for being aggressive and often hostile towards its employees, particularly those who wanted improvements and were prepared to do something about it. Connex SE appeared to be in breach of the Safety Critical Regulations but we could not be sure as we were not allowed to see any documentation. The response from Connex to anyone who was critical of the deteriorating safety conditions and to anyone who tried to do anything about it was to shut them up, or hound them out or even to sack them. www.workplacevictimisation.net /afightingorganisation.html   (3256 words)

BBC NEWS | England | Train firm loses franchise The Connex South Eastern franchise had been due to run until 2006, but will now cease at the end of the year. Both Connex and the SRA, which oversees railways on behalf of the government, insisted services would not be affected. Connex can still bid for other franchises, as Mr Bowker said the decision was specifically about southeast services. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/3024804.stm   (701 words)

Connex thrown out by the Strategic Rail Authority........ Connex had called the SRA’s bluff once too often in asking for an outrageous extra £200 million in subsidy to run the franchise until the end of 2006, on top of the £58 million already agreed. There were conditions that Connex had to abide by in order to receive the extra funding, one being that Connex should not pay any dividend to its French parent Veolia Environnement (formerly known as Vivendi Environnement) or to any of the other Connex companies that operate inernationally. In December, when Connex finally has gone, the SRA will then bring forward the competition for a new Integrated Kent Franchise, incorporating existing South Eastern services and the planned high-speed domestic services on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, with the winning private-sector company taking over within 12 to 18 months. csenews.net /connexthrownout.html   (923 words)

Scotsman.com Business - The railways - Connex at end of line as it loses franchise Connex transports 500,000 passengers a week and the SRA says services will not be affected. Connex has been in hot water over its performance before, once blaming an infestation of fleas for the cancellation of a service. Connex lost its South Central franchise two years ago, but that was in a competitive bidding situation. business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=168&id=701212003   (707 words)

Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa Drivers on Connex South Eastern voted by 388 to 154 in favour of the strike action—a majority of 71 percent—and South Central route drivers supported taking action by 378 to 81, an 82 percent majority. In December, Connex took legal action against drivers' refusal to work rest days, which had led to the cancellation of trains. Connex has a very bad reputation internally and you can see that from the way they treat the passengers. www.wsws.org /articles/2000/jan2000/lab-j20.shtml   (1408 words)

Spotlight on Connex South Eastern. Connex breaks employment laws ................................... Connex to run light railway linking occupied territories - in breach of international law. Connex sacks train driver in an attempt to silence criticism of (and stop action against) its failing safety standards. After 7 years of suffering by both its passengers and staff, Connex is no longer allowed to mis-manage passenger services in the south east. www.csenews.net   (305 words)

London Net : Archive News - End of the Line for Train Company - 2003-06-26 Connex South Eastern, which runs trains into major London stations such as Victoria, from Kent and Sussex will be replaced within 18 months after a bidding process. Connex has long been unpopular with some of its passengers who bemoan its patchy service, though Bowker was quick to say that punctuality of trains was not the issue in this case. Many see Connex's eventual replacement by another privately owned franchisee as missing the point. www.londonnet.co.uk /ln/talk/news/archive/2003/jun/headlines_20030626_1375.html   (220 words)

UTU: News Connex is said to be making enormous losses and executives now say they cannot continue to operate while losing so much money. Connex is a French-owned private rail firm which runs services throughout Europe. It was originally awarded both the south central and south eastern franchises, but lost the south central franchise in October 2000 following criticism of its management and performance. www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=4837   (317 words)

News | Telegraph Connex, which also operates the south-eastern franchise from Victoria to south-east London and Kent, has gained a reputation for running late and overcrowded trains. Mr Ballinger added that his biggest challenge was to instil a new culture among Connex South Central staff, "restore morale" and "manage a whole new way of providing a quality service to people on the south coast and south London". For its part, Connex said it was "disappointed" to have lost the franchise. www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/10/25/nconx25.xml   (808 words)

Chiswick South West Trains Beleaguered commuters using the South West Trains service from Chiswick Station have suffered a double blow with news of a New Year Strike and the publication of figures that show the network to be the worst performing in the South East. South West Trains have offered 3.8% and binding arbitration if this is not acceptable. South West Trains also have the biggest commitment to order new stock of any of the train operating companies. www.chiswickw4.com /community/issuechisbr5.htm   (533 words)

Connex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The franchise to operate these routes was due to run until 2006, but Connex South Central lost its franchise in October 2000, and in June 2003 the Strategic Rail Authority decided to cut the South Eastern franchise short at the end of 2003 due to what it called "poor financial management". In the event Connex South Eastern lost its franchise at midnight on November 8, 2003, when train services were taken over by South Eastern Trains, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Strategic Rail Authority. Connex is free to bid for future franchises, including the trans-Pennine franchise currently held by Arriva, which is due for renewal in September 2004. www.info-pedia.net /about/connex   (630 words)

Connex driver forced to quit after safety whistleblowing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The judgement of the Tribunal today is a shocking indictment of both Connex South Eastern’s industrial relations practices and it’s attitude to rail safety. The Tribunal have expressly found that Connex are more concerned with their public image and cost savings, than they are about the safety of their staff and the general public. Connex have been found to have breached two pieces of legislation - vital to running a safe railway. www.labournet.net /ukunion/0202/connex1.html   (628 words)

[No title] Apparently, at the same time as the privatisation to the Connex South Eastern Ltd, another part of the South Eastern Train Company Empire was sold to Connex South Central Ltd. The two companies, though linked in ownership, none the less operated independently as was required by the privatisation scheme. In considering whether the dismissal was unfair, the Employment Tribunal considered on argument that the Applicant was automatically unfairly dismissed under regulation 8 (1) of the TUPE regulations on the footing that the transfer or a reason connected with it, was the reason or principle reason for his dismissal. The argument was that the transfer from British Rail to Connex South Eastern Ltd was the reason or the principle reason for the dismissal and that, accordingly, it was a reason connected with that transfer. www.employmentappeals.gov.uk /Public/Upload/EAT124399561999.doc   (3786 words)

Train firm offers cash for drivers not to be ill Connex South Eastern, which runs London-Kent trains, is introducing a yearly reward of £1,100 for its 816 drivers if they do not take days off for illness. A similar scheme was considered a success by the firm's sister company, Connex South Central, whose 636 drivers have benefited from it for more than a year. A similar scheme has been applied to Connex conductors, but they have cash deducted from their weekly wages if they take any sick leave. www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/02/16/nrai16.html   (387 words)

Bombardier wins $757 Million order for Electrostar Trains in the United Kingdom - Railway Technology Bombardier Transportation has won a contract valued at $757 million Cdn (£330 million) from a UK train operator, Connex South Eastern. Currently, plans are scheduled for the work to take place at Connex South Eastern’s Ramsgate depot located in Kent. The total number of Electrostars ordered to date in the UK is 1,434 cars, which includes 296 cars for c2c, 438 cars for Connex South Eastern and 700 cars for Govia’s South Central franchise. www.railway-technology.com /contractors/suburban/bombardier5/press15.html   (553 words)

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