The Navigators

I've... I've done that bit.

- Got your end? - No. A bit more.

- Got your end? - No. Right, got it now.

- Here, John, just pull this . - Andy, there's only one coming through.

Hang on. Right.

It's stuck on summat.

Well, I need another two of them.

One on the up, lads .

Come on, look sharp .

Mick, off the track. Come on.

John, shift yourself.

Mick, spade.

Oh, bollocks !

Mick!

- (Train horn) - Mick, leave it.

- Mick! Leave it! - (Shouting)

Come on, get off the bloody thing!

Come on, Webby, get up .

There you go, Paul, I've put you in a piece of lemon cake.

Oh, thanks, Tracy.

- Have I got some? - You don't like it.

Yeah, I do.

See you later.

- See you, pal. - Bye.

Come on.

Cheers .

What's all this, then?

That's you.

We're railwaymen, us .

That's what you're gonna be called from now on.

- What, all of us ? - All of us, aye.

When's that come in?

Well, that's what we're gonna be called now.

Morning, lads .

Er, you'll be pleased to know you don't have to go out straightaway.

- (Chatter continues ) - Oi! Oi!

Excuse me, I've got something important to tell you here.

There's a briefing I'm gonna tell you about.

Because, er, it's about your new company.

East Midlands lnfrastructure. All right?

I've got a briefing about it here.

So, if you just listen carefully,... er, don't interrupt.

You know, just for once, try and...

- Morning. - Oh, aye, where've you been?

Toilet.

Toilet, oh. You're not late, are you?

- No. - No, been here ages .

- Have you clocked on? - Yeah.

All right. Well, sit down and listen. All right?

Thought it were girls who were s'posed to go to toilet together.

- He won't wake up in the morning. - I was knackered. Your settee's crap .

- She'll not have him. Too much sense. - Thank you, Fiona.

Right, now. Hang on, hang on. Listen, lads .

Now then, if there's anyone here not actually based at this depot,

because one or two of you lads are on loan from Woodburn depot, aren't you?

So, hands up all those who are on loan from Woodburn.

OK, I'm sorry, lads , but this information is not for you, OK?

So I must ask you to go outside, all right?

- What's he talking about? - (Laughter)

What are you laughing at? What is it? Why?

Why have they got to go outside?

Why? Because they're a different company now and I don't want them s pying on us...

- (Laughter) - ..and pinching our jobs .

Who d'you think we are, James Bond?

Oi. Oi! Oi! Oi! What the hell are you laughing at? Come on. Keep it down.

- (Muttering) - Come on, lads .

What, they've got to go?

- Yeah. - (Chatter)

This is... This is daft, this .

- Listen, British Rail is gone now. - I'll tell you what he says, lads .

- It's not... - It's daft, this .

Listen, hang on. It's not like that any more, Gerry. British Rail's gone.

Woodburn depot is now Northern lnfrastructure and they're gonna be competing with us .

All right? Er,... A... And look, it's all in this briefing.

- All right? Have they gone? Right. Fine. - They've left door open, they might hear us .

Hey! Hey, hey, hey, come on.

Listen, you're not rail workers any more. Er, you're now East Midlands lnfrastructure.

For now, anyway.

Er, you don't work for British Rail and we've got to win contracts from the, er, Railtrack company.

Er, and we've got a managing director to... to win the work for us, all right?

- Who's he, then? - Because now, in the future, just...

- Who is he? - Just... All right, all right, listen.

Just doing the job is not gonna be good enough in the future. Right?

You've gotta do it well, if we're gonna succeed.

And we've gotta advertise our skills and we've got to have a mission statement.

- What's a mission statement? - Mission lmpossible.

- (Some laughter) - Missionary position.

- (Laughter) - All right, all right, keep the banter down, lads .

Let's keep it serious. This is important stuff you've gotta... you've gotta listen to here.

Look, a mission statement is where we say what we're gonna do...

Er, and then we have to do it.

- I'm off to work. - (Laughter)

- All right. - I'm going for a shit.

- (Laughter) - All right! Come on!

Listen! I've got bloody more important things to do

than bloody go on talking to you lads like this .

- I'm going for a shit. - All right, now come on.

That's the way things are gonna be done in future, right?

Now listen. Because to succeed in the marketplace,

we've gotta sell our wares p... carefully.

- And we've gotta... - (Laughter)

We've got to look after the customer if we're gonna keep 'em.

All right? And we've got to have safety written into the contract.

Er, because if we don't work safely, well, we don't work at all. All right?

- We do work safely. - And, er...

- Eh? - We always work safely.

Well, you try, but it's not as safe as when I used to do the job, I'll tell you that.

- Ta(!) That's right on... - You might bloody scoff, but it's bloody true.

Some of the old lads, I wish they were still here. Show you bloody lads a thing or two, I'll tell you.

Old Len knows what I'm talking about. He was one of the lads .

Old Len ha'n't... 'Ere, Old Len ha'n't a bloody clue what you're talking about.

Oh, now listen, hang on. Now this really is important.

All right. We've had a bit of fun, lads , but now come on, get serious now.

Look, deaths have got to be kept to an acceptable level.

Oi! Hang on! Shut up. Shut up .

- What's an acceptable level? - Er,... two a year.

- But nobody's been killed for past 1 8 month. - (Laughter)

- Any volunteers ? - (Laughter)

- That's daft. - If you're third one, you're sacked.

Look, I'm just bloody telling you what it says here, right?

Listen. Now then, the final thing is...

there's a letter here for each of you. I want you to read it carefully.

- What's it for, that, then? - It's about redundancy. If...

- You're going to make it compulsory. - No, it's not compulsory.

- It... It's up to you whether you accept it. - Have you got one, an' all?

Gonna buy us off, then. Gonna buy us off.

- That's it. Sell us down the river again. - Aye.

Are we all getting one of these?

Should do, aye. There's one for each of you.

Are you getting one?

- Michael. - I don't need one, lad.

- Why, has he got sack? - John.

- Is this what they call fucking hand-outs ? - Eh?

- Paul. - I ain't been here long enough to cop for that.

Come on then, let's be having you!

- Come on, lads . - We can't do owwt in this, Len. It's wet.

- Easy on them brakes, mate. - It's raining on me, as well.

Come on. Let's get for'ard and have a look at job. Come on!

He's a bloody nutcase.

Oh, for Christ's sake!

- Morning, ganger, what's job? - Bloody ballast tamper's packed up again.

- Tamper's broken down? - Yeah, so it seems .

- What are you having to do? Lay it all by hand? - All by hand. Sorry.

- There's nowwt we can be doing, then? - No, no, we gotta hand-pack it.

- How long? - About an hour. Go and get a cup of tea.

About an hour. Righto. See you in a bit.

- That's it. You got it. There you go. - Screw it on, then.

- Eh up, lads. Harpic's here, look. - Ah.

- Oh, there's summat on horizon, anyway. - (Chatter)

Refit? What've they found?

Right. Right, I want a word. I just want...

I'd just like to know what's going on.

What d'you mean, "What's going on?" We're getting on with job.

Oh, good, l... I'm glad that. But, er, what's he doing here?

- Working. - What d'you think I'm doing?

Working? But he shouldn't, should he? Because he's not in our company now.

Don't you remember? We are now East Midlands... er, lnfrastructure.

He... He's Northern lnfrastructure. Completely different unit. He shouldn't...

He's one of lads. Been wi' us four month.

- Get your... Get your tackle. You've got to go. - He can't go.

- What d'you mean, "He can't go"? - Why d'you think he can't go?

- I've signed for this, so I take it. It's mine. - What...

- Can't do job without meter. - The meter?

- No, all right, no problem. I'll bring one back. - When?

As soon as I take him back, I'll get another one.

- At this time of day, with traffic? You're joking. - I can only do me best.

If he goes... If he goes and takes meter, we might all as well go.

- Well, I didn't know he'd got that. - Well, somebody let him have it.

I didn't let him have it, did l? I didn't know he'd bloody got it.

- Look, come on. Come on. I'm sorry. - I'm off. I'm off. See ya.

Have you got anything else? ls that all you've got? You've got everything?

- No, I've got some stuff on t'van. - Right, well you better get that, then.

- See you later, pal. - See you.

- See you later, mate. - And then there were six.

Might as well get off, then.

- Well, I'm not doing that without a meter. - He's a prick, him, i'n't he?

- All right, lads ? - You all right?

- What's going on? - Leaving, mate. Taking the money.

- What about working your notice? - Taking us holidays .

If you ha'n't got no holidays , you can take unpaid leave.

- Bloody hell, lads, that's a bit quick. - What, and all your gang's took it, an' all?

- Most of us, yeah. - Eh, Gerry, come and listen to this .

All Walt's lot's took it already.

- You're joking. - No. He's here now.

- Can't believe that. - What's all this, Walt?

There you are, Gerry lad. British Rail conditions of service. It's no good to me any more.

Where are you gonna get another job now?

I've no idea, but I'm not sticking it here. Not what went off this morning.

- Decided already? - Aye.

Should've waited and had a word.

- Have you signed it, lads ? - You were a bit hasty there, weren't you?

- Not really, but... - All the best, lads .

- See you. - See you later. Take care.

- Loads of service, him. - What, you've all signed it?

- Aye. - Well, it's good money for us, innit?

We're not getting any younger.

- See you, Len. - I'll see you later, Joe.

OK, Len, mate.

Lisa?

Stay there.