Jubilee line

Defective Doors Need Station Staff

Management are looking for new ways to cut jobs on the Jubilee Line extension. When a platform edge door is defective at present a member of station staff would be required to stand by the door, both to ensure it remains shut, and to notify customers the door isn’t in use. Now management want to do...

Jubilee drivers say enough is enough

Great to see Jubilee Line drivers drawing lines in the sand and striking to protect them. These drivers laid out their limits and when the line was crossed they balloted for action.

Strikes are due in April and senior bosses are now ready to listen. Since this dispute, other depots are considering...

Jubilee Line Drivers' Victory Over Safety!

Jubilee management wanted to remove essential communication equipment for drivers, the tunnel telephones. Unions said LU had to install more fixed phones or it wouldn't be safe. Managment procrastiated. But miraculously LU ordered the phones as soon as we said we'd refuse to work without them. We...

Four Years With No Tunnel Wires

Jubilee Line bosses want to remove telephone wires between Bond Street and Baker Street for four years so repairs on the tunnel walls can be made. Apparently the tunnel is safe but the work still important. The Jubilee extension was built in 7 years - but a plaster job will take 4? Doesn’t sound...

Lies, Delays and Statistics

Jubilee Line service disruption is exaggerated by management targets to keep trains in service.

How does it benefit passengers on a quiet train to be in a five-deep queue outside Wembley park? And when we get there, there are no drivers to relieve us for our overdue meal breaks.

Better to put...

Present Arms

So we pop into Stratford traincrew canteen for our grub, and what do we see? A police officer with a sizeable gun on full display. It's enough to make you choke on your chips.

Seriously, the canteen is supposed to be where we go to chill for half an hour. Our workplace is not an army barracks and...

Jubilee Line’s New ‘Fingers Crossed’ Detrainment Procedure

17th June - When entering a siding the driver or station staff must first physically check each car is empty of customers before taking the train into the sidings.

18th June - When entering the sidings, make a PA, flash the lights, cross your fingers and off you go.

Except, drivers didn’t. In...

'Back in Five'

On day one of the Jubilee Olympic Timetable, the same day as the triple points failure we recently reported, a train stalled at Westminster.

At St James’ Park we had to evacuate and close up, then travel to Westminster to help detrain. What were we supposed to do? Stick a sign on St James’...

Up the Junction!

Whilst LU plans to cut track maintenance on the Jubilee, during day one of the Olympic timetable, major junctions fail at Waterloo, London Bridge and Canary Wharf.

Some of us drivers thought it was such bad luck that it must have in fact been planned to test the new timetables’ resilience.

The...

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