Central line

Tip to Central Line trains management. When you install new seats in the cabs, make sure that they are securely fixed. And when a union health & safety rep repeatedly points out to you that they are not, take some notice.

Otherwise, what inevitably happens is what happened last week. The seat...

Management find themselves with a few dozen drivers 'above numbers' at Loughton and Leytonstone depots, so are rattling their sabres and threatening forced displacements.

When the East London Line was closed down in preparation for extension and privatisation, drivers (and other staff) were...

On Greenford group - and maybe elsewhere - management have altered the targets for revenue activity, taking the emphasis off actually selling tickets and shifting it towards encouraging customers not to do so.

Management have brought in a new target, the Ticket Selling Index. The credit you get for...

Some wag on the Central line has produced a spoof Tubeworker under the title TubeDriver.

Here at TW, we like a bit of humour. So we'd like to say that it's very witty, and copying TW's graphics shows a commendable attention to detail.

Sadly, though, saying that station staffing has 'bugger all' to...

The chickens are finally coming home to roost for the Central line's 92 stock, as the motors begin to give up the ghost. Everyone always knew they were dodgy, and over recent weeks, the brushes have been wearing out and the motors flashing over.

Management thought they could patch and mend, and...

Remember the scandal of the less than adequate train prep on the Central Line when the Metronet strike was called off? And remember Tubeworker saying we would not hold our breath waiting for the HMRI to deal with it?

It's a good job we didn't, cos we'd have died of asphixiation long since. Since...

Note to Buckhurst Hill group management. If one of your staff has a motorbike crash on the way to work, in uniform, and has to be taken to hospital in an ambulance for emergency treatment, then you should offer them sympathy and support - not an attendance warning. Issuing a warning is against...

Wednesday on the Central line saw more evidence of the failures of Metronet - but also an inspiring example of Tube workers acting to defend their own and passengers' safety.

At 9am, an eastbound train became defective at Holland Park. After initially fearing a possible derailment, it then became...

Drivers arrived at work on Wednesday and rightly insisted on proof that the trains had been prepared properly after the absence of fleet staff during the Metronet strike.

At the Central line's Leytonstone depot, a union rep discovered that his train had been prepped by someone who did not have all...

LUL's savage ticket office cuts will even wipe out some of the jobs they created under the stations 35-hour week! Staff who transferred to a location they had been waiting for will now be forced out, and staff who were displaced into them will be displaced out again!

One example is Greenford group...