District line

Underground Overground

The East London Line is due to reopen soon, newly-privatised and rebranded as London Overground.

This will self-evidently lead to an increase in passengers going through Whitechapel station, both interchanging between the two lines and getting on or off at Whitechapel for a journey to or from one...

2009 Agreement Sees Drivers Forced Off Roster

Drivers are feeling the effects of the woeful 2009 Agreement as management come after jobs.

At Barking, 8 drivers have been forced off the roster and into the pool, including some who have been on the roster for years. They now find themselves having to work out of Acton Town sometimes several...

Bang!

Last week, the reaction to unattended packages on London Underground trains hit explosive new levels. Mid-afternoon on 28 January, the Metrolpolitan police bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion on a District line train at Wimbledon.

The station had been evacuated, but with the official...

Seeing Off the BNP at Upney

When RMT heard that fascist BNP leader Nick Griffin was going to launch his election campaign as MP for Barking and Dagenham from Upney Station at 7pm on Thursday, they knew this must be resisted. Organised fascists are a threat to trade unionists, as well as ethnic minorities and lesbian and gay...

Earth Calling Metronet

Anyone who knows about the electricity that powers our Tube will tell you that if you have an 'earth', then this is something to worry about.

In 'Triangle sidings' on the District Line, there were positive and negative earths in the same area, where there is also bad water seapage. When this...

Hello? Anyone There?

Sick of handing faults from one contractor to another with no-one prepared to actually fix it? The Headwall Tunnel Telephone at Tower Hill was out of action for ten days before someone admitted the fault was theirs.

You would think that safety critical equipment would take some sort of priority...

Cannon Street ticket office: Should it stay or should it go?

Reports reach us of extraordinary goings-on at Cannon Street station.

It is having a partial refit because the building above it is being demolished and replaced. Originally, the station refit was going to do away with the ticket office, as Cannon Street was one of the 40 stations on management's...

Closing Windows

It seems that something is being lost in the Southfields station refurb - two ticket office windows, to be precise.

Southfields ticket office, one of the busier ones in that neck of the woods, has three windows. Or it did have. When the refurb's done, it will reopen with just one.

It's yet another...

One At A Time Please

A cutting to the west of Acton Town needs stabilising. Metronet bosses have come up with a bright idea for how to organise the work - but although they have convinced themselves that their idea is safe, it is far from it.

The plant will be moved onto the site during engineering hours, but the work...

Blackfriars Beware

Blackfriars station is due to close for a refurb, so CSAs will temporarily have to work elsewhere (Supervisors should remain at Blackfriars to look after contractors and the station).

LUL asked the CSAs if they would like to work at Cannon Street, and they all said "Yes Please". But now it seems...

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