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| Southern rail: Government fines owners over delays | Southern rail: Government fines owners over delays |
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| The owners of Southern rail have been fined £13.4m for poor performance, the Department for Transport has announced. | The owners of Southern rail have been fined £13.4m for poor performance, the Department for Transport has announced. |
| The government said the fine on Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) would have been higher, but most of the delays had not been Southern's fault. | |
| The DfT said strikes and unprecedented levels of sick leave were also to blame. | |
| The RMT union was critical of the fine, saying the government had let Southern and its parent company off the hook. | |
| Mick Cash, the general secretary of the RMT, said: "This pathetic response to the abject failure by Southern/GTR to deliver on their contract doesn't even stack up to a slap on the wrist. | |
| "No wonder the company are gloating. Chris Grayling (the transport secretary) has let them off the hook big-style. | |
| "This is yet another case of the government and their rail industry cronies investigating themselves while the services they are responsible for are a global laughing stock." | |
| Southern has been embroiled in a bitter dispute for more than a year with the the RMT and Aslef unions over driver-only operated trains. | |
| The Association of British Commuters (ABC) took legal action over what it described as a "fiasco". | |
| Southern says it has never made a profit on the service. | Southern says it has never made a profit on the service. |