District line

Elm Park has had a bit of trouble with its OPO equipment, meaning that the platform had to be staffed to give drivers the right (or 'assisted despatch' as we are all supposed to call in now).

The problem was that at one point, there was only one member of staff on the station - the Station...

Note to East Ham group management. You can not make someone work a night turn one day and a late turn the next. Just to stress: a person can not be made to book off in the morning then book on again mid-afternoon the very same day.

We are all entitled to 12 hours rest between duties - it's in the...

Saturday morning, and a 'customer' decides to deposit a poo on the stairs at Temple station. The cleaner set about cleaning it up - but her employer, Initial, hadn't bothered to supply her with gloves! And when the Station Supervisor - having given the cleaner a pair of gloves from his first aid kit...

West Brompton station inherited two platforms and a lift from Silverlink. Management said this would make precious little difference to the station, and would certainly not require any extra staff or an uprating of West Brompton, which is one of the few remaining SS3 stations.

So it came as...

Hammersmith group management seem to think they can change staff's working practices without any consultation.

With Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury transferring into the group from Silverlink, management have issued an instruction to Turnham Green Supervisors that they will have to process their lost...

East Ham group's new GSM is busy making himself very unpopular with staff. When he's not having managers turn up unannounced on people's doorsteps, he's disciplining staff when they've done nothing wrong.

Staff are getting mightily peed off about this, and are busy planning the fightback ...

As part of the impending Silverlink transfer, LUL stations Highbury & Islington, Blackhorse Road and West Brompton are to take on responsibility for the Silverlink platforms. Obviously, then, additional responsibilities would entail extra work, extra insepctions, extra fault reporting - and, you'd...

The Circle and Hammersmith & City lines and the District line's Wimbledon branch have come to a halt this evening as drivers refuse to go along with management's wish to operate trains that may be fatally unsafe.

'C' Stock trains seem to have a problem with the 'deadman's handle', the kit that...

As management fell over themselves to get the train service running after the Metronet strike was called off, it appears that they may have been prepared to cut some corners when it came to safety standards. Yes, really.

By the end of the strike, a section of track near Plaistow had not been...

LUL staff are used to management playing fast and loose with safety rules during strikes. Now it seems that Metronet's management have caught on too.

Rumours reach us of a patrol going out on the District line during the strike - probably made up of the tiny handful of scabs they could muster from...