District line

'Lost Property' Trickery - Again

Readers might remember our report about District Line Control telling station staff to remove 'lost property' from a train - except it wasn't lost property but an unattended bag. Well, we had hoped that following complaints by the station concerned, this unfortunate and unsafe incident would not be...

Going Home

'Tube Meltdown' screamed the newspaper headlines as this morning several lines went totally up the wall.

One upshot was that some early-turn Earls Court service control staff were held up on their way to work. Apparently, management decided that it wasn't really worth sending a taxi to get them in...

Up The Wall Again

The job was up the wall on the District, Circle and Central Lines this morning, due to yet more late surrenders by Metronet. Severe delays are continuing through the morning.

Sorry, were we just saying that Metronet is crap?

Doubtless, LUL and the Mayor will make all the usual statements about how...

Dis-Connect

Tubeworker has kept reader informed of the numerous stumbling blocks along the road of Connect. And they continue to stumble.

Five days before the new equipment was due to go live on the District Line, they finally got round to doing operational testing on the road with local health and safety reps...

In The Firing Line

The east end of the District line has been bugged by problems of violence for some time. The latest dangerous invident was on Thursday afternoon, when someone shot at drivers between West Ham and Bromley-By-Bow with an air rifle. At least one D and one C stock were hit. The service, already running...

Who Put That Switch There?

Monday evening, the District Line was suspended for half an hour, H&C and Circle also suspended, and delays continued well into the evening.

The reason? Loss of train radio from Earl's Court. The reason for that? The Connect project had installed a changeover switch on the desk during the night...

Sunday Closure

When Charing Cross mainline station is closed for engineering works, mainline services run from Cannon Street instead. So it's a good idea for Cannon Street Tube station to be open, you'd think.

It's usually closed on a Sunday, so that would require extra staffing. But with management cutting...

Lost, or Suspect?

We're all supposed to be on heightened alert for terror attacks, right? So abandoned, suspect bags should be dealt with under the HOT procedure, right? Or is it one rule for operational staff but another for Line Control?

The problem for the company is that dealing properly with a suspect package...

MEL

MEL (manual electronic logging) at Whitechapel cabin has been withdrawn permanently. This is thanks in large part to a lot of hard work by the local health and safety rep - and a good example of what difference an effective H&S rep can make.

We are not against new technology as such but making...

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