Rail dispute possibly over:

Rail dispute possibly over:; ***ALSO AVAILABLE AT FS120672011*** ENGLAND: London: INT Ray Buckton (ASLEF leader) intvw SOF - "I wouldn't call it a climb down, I think it's practically where we wanted to be / very much so, when you're in the midst of negotiations you say many things, and as far as I'm concerned it proved worthwhile saying that / today we've reached a settlement, well not a settlement, an offer, which I think my executive can agree with tomorrow" - (On whether industrial action will now be called off) "I think it will, it's something I could recommend to the executive committee to do tomorrow, and it'll be up to them to make the decision" - (Whether he's happy with result) "Naturally I'm happy with the result, I class it as a victory for common sense / I think what we've done is been patient, we've done what we believe is the right thing, we've been up against something new, the industrial relations act / we've faced that, we've faced court twice, at last, success is the result of our endeavours" EXT Sir Sidney Greene (NUR General Secretary) intvw SOF - (On whether compromise could have been reached earlier in dispute) "Well that might be so but who's going to argue about that now / we've made a settlement and don't want to get back to the argument of accusing one side or the other" - (On industrial action planned tomorrow night) "I'm pretty certain than when my executive hears this settlement they'll be prepared to keep a normal service running" - (On the public being assured of a normal train service from now on) "Oh yes, I think that would be reasonable to say that" - (Presumably it's going to cost the railways more money, will there be increased fares) "Well don't get misled by that because there's going to be increased fares in any case, whether we get an increase in wages" INT Herbert Farrimond (British Rail spokesman) intvw SOF - (On this being a defeat for the board) "No it is not a defeat for the board, the b...