Metropolitan line

Imagine starting work for LUL, doing your training, and being told what group you are going to work on. Off you go, settle in to working on the group, perhaps move house into the area.

Then management tell you that they shouldn't really have sent you there, whoops, so they are going to displace you...

It seems that many of the Control Room staff at Neasden have been working despite their safety-critical licensing having expired.

Management's explanation is that there has been a failure of the 'systemised management system'. Brilliant: a systemised system. What next? Safe safety? A licence to...

The Victoria and Metropolitan lines will be closed on Boxing Day for engineering work. Management seem to think this means they can book all the drivers off on annual leave for the day. Problem is: that means you lose an annual day from some other time in the year.

We have little enough control...

Tubeworker warned earlier this year that Station Supervisors' jobs were under threat, as the new Rule Books stripped the grade of many of its responsibilities. Now Supervisors have even more reason to fear for the future of their jobs - and more reason to fight back to defend them.

Firstly...

Connect is still causing chaos. The latest is that a DMT at Kings Cross called Victoria line control, but got through to the Met instead! And this is the system we are supposed to rely on for safety-critical messages!

London Underground says it prides itself on being a "Customer Led" organisation but apparently radical plans to upgrade Metropolitan Line trains have not gone down well with the travelling public of Harrow. The reason for this outrage is the possibility of 30% of seating being reduced on the new...

Well it’s been nearly 4 months since the new rosters were imposed, ahem I mean implemented, on a grateful LUL workforce!

The SWW was heralded as a great deal for staff but in reality that is far from the truth for a lot of staff.

Who in their right mind would envy CSAs at Wembley Park and their...

Question: When is a customer-led organisation not a Customer led organisation?

Answer: When that customer-led organisation is London Underground Ltd!

Just over a month has elapsed since the new Shorter Working Week rosters were imposed on / accepted by (depending on your point of view) the majority...

Following a SPAD at Harrow on the Hill reportedly due to Manual Electronic Logging in use in the signal cabin, MEL equipment was removed from Harrow and Whitechapel cabins. HMRI are apparently investigating - but as Tubeworker writes, MEL is being put back in, on test, with new modifications.

There...

There is a proposal to qualify people (managers to work strike days, perhaps?) to work only limited moves at Harrow-on-the-Hill. Meaning: no point movements.

This has obvious safety implications for both staff and the public eg. a train arcing and fusing could not be put in Harrow siding; or in the...