Bakerloo Line

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Bakerloopy?

An Evening Standard story covering a TfL report about the parlous state of the Bakerloo fleet was greeted with wry amusement in many mess rooms in Bakerloo depots and stations.

Some of the stats (630,500 lost customer hours in 2022-3) are shocking; it’s only thanks to the hard work of staff on the...

RMT detrainment re-ballot: vote yes to renew mandate

RMT is re-balloting driver members on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, and Victoria lines to renew an industrial action mandate in the dispute over the imposition of "flash-and-dash", the unsafe detrainment method whereby drivers are expected to simply flash in-car...

Detrainment dispute: renew the mandate, link the fights!

RMT is re-balloting train operator members on the Bakerloo, District, Central, Hammersmith and City, and Jubilee lines to renew the mandate for industrial action in the dispute over the removal of detrainment duties on stations.

Ballot papers go out on 27 July, and the ballot closes on 17 August. T...

Detrainment dispute heats up as drivers vote for action

LUL drivers' fight against the removal of detrainment duties, and the imposition of the "flash-and-dash" system for detraining, is heating up. Both RMT and Aslef have successfully achieved industrial action mandates.

RMT balloted all affected lines together, while Aslef balloted on a line-by-line...

Drivers: vote yes for strikes to defend detrainment duties

RMT is balloting driver members on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Hammersmith and City, and Jubilee lines for strikes to resist the removal of detrainment duties at terminating stations.

We've covered this issue extensively - see some of our previous coverage here and here.

Action is absolutely...

Detrainment fight is opportunity to build unity

LUL management want to scrap manual detrainment so that they can cut station staff jobs. It would mean rather than a CSA or train op checking each carriage is empty before going into a siding, the train op makes an announcement, flashes the lights, and hopes for the best.

A recent management...

Aslef calls strikes on Bakerloo line

Aslef has called strikes on the Bakerloo line on 4 and 11 February, after drivers voted 99% in favour of industrial action short of strikes, and 95% in favour of strikes, on an 80% turnout. The dispute is over LUL’s plan to remove detrainment duties from Bakerloo line platform, which involve station...

Return to "Flash and Dash" risks jobs and safety

In the same month the Women’s Night Safety Charter was publicised in TfL's in-house magazine On the Move, London Underground detailed plans to remove manual detrainment, in favour of that old favourite "flash and dash".

"Flash and dash" is the process where the train operator will only have to...

Wot, no running water?!

The cleaners' mess room at Elephant and Castle is currently without running water, meaning cleaners are having to fill buckets from elsewhere to clean dishes and crockery.

The local RMT safety rep is quite rightly pursuing the issue, ignoring the logic of outsourcing which claims that, as the...

Lift Off

The extreme heat on Monday and Tuesday saw some station closures, including Oxford Circus, which closed for a couple of hours due to a fire alert, caused by a part in an escalator machine chamber overheating, and Lambeth North, which had to close when its lifts overheated.

Part of our role as...

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