Fleet maintenance

Safety checks and repairs of trains - one of management's targets for cuts

LU threatens to dock drivers' pay for upholding safety standards

Aslef and RMT's additional industrial action short of strikes, named in response to LU's safety breaches (see here) has clearly got the company panicked.

The unions rightly declared that no member should take a train into service if it hadn't been properly prepped by properly licensed staff. A 24...

Fleet Fights Agency Threat

You might think that 23-year old trains would still be pretty fit for the future, but the Central Line's 92 stock is so fragile that it needs a heavy overhaul.

You might think that would mean employing more people to do the work, and to train the new people taken on to do the work. But management...

More action on DLR, strike ballot on LU Fleet...

DLR Interserve cleaners will strike again, from 8-10 June, in their campaign for pay justice. They held a solid strike from 27-29 May, but Interserve aren't playing ball, so workers will have to continue speaking in the only language bosses understand: industrial action.

Directly-employed DLR staff...

Off The Rails

The job's well and truly up the wall on the Central line today, following last night's engineering train derailmemt.

The battery-powered ballast train derailed its last bogie and clattered into the wall, sending four on board to hospital, including the tamper driver. The good news is that all have...

How Many Private Companies Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?

Tubeworker reeived a report from one of our driver contributors that a heavily-used depot signal was faulty for two days.

The relatively simple fault was that the signal had no white aspect likely due to a blown bulb. The rumour is that, as the signal was on the depot boundary, there was a...

Auto Prep?!

Management's obsession with getting every bit of kit on the Underground to operate and maintain itself is reaching an ever-shriller pitch. Their latest wheeze is a claim that new trains can prepare themselves for service automatically: 'auto-prep'.

Improved technology is, of course, welcome. But...

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