Tube Lines

A leak has shown that hundreds of job cuts are coming on Tube Lines. So ... the bosses mess up, the workers pay the price. Typical.

After proving our strength earlier this year, Tube Lines workers now need to prepare for a fight on a much larger scale. We can fight alongside our workmates in London...

Last month, there was a fire in an escalator machine chamber at Euston. Smoke was coming out of the escalator and flames were visible through the gaps between the steps.

But the fire alarm did not go off. The smoke detector did not detect the smoke.

When questions were asked of the contractor...

Tube Lines workers' strike action has won some significant gains - and workers will now vote on the company's new offer.

The pay deal is still for three years, but while we might have preferred a one-year deal, it is easy to see why in the current climate, a guaranteed above-inflation rise for the...

Top marks from Tubeworker to Arnos Grove drivers, who refused to work on safety grounds during the Tube Lines strike in even greater numbers than at other depots.

Management were well and truly rattled, and tossed the rules out of the window in an unsuccessful attempt to bully drivers into taking...

The strike on Tubelines kicked off to an impressive start for its first 24 hours. There was no Emergency Response Unit, as they were mostly on the picket line! The signals on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines were rock solid too.

The impact of the strike spread as LU staff exercised their...

As Tube Lines' sad and frivolous attempt to get the strike banned failed to impress even the usually-compliant judiciary, it is full steam ahead for the strike starting tonight and lasting for 48 hours.

Tube Lines workers are solid in their support for the strike, and London Underground...

Tube Lines engineers on the Northern, Jubliee and Piccadilly lines will strike for 48 hours from 23 to 25 June.

The strike is about jobs and safety. Tube Lines want to reduce the number of safety inspections and will not guarantee that this won’t cost jobs.

With TfL’s purchase of all Tube Lines’...

Wednesday saw little sign of any Picc line trains in central London, with an early-doors derailment that sent the job well and truly up the wall.

It seems that in its dying days, Tube Lines has really excelled itself, as it managed to derail an engineering train in an area (Earls Court) without any...

Little-noticed by a media focusing on one bunch of scoundrels trying to form a government with another bunch of scoundrels, it seems that the despised and discredited London Underground Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is dead. TfL is to buy Tube Lines from its shareholders Bechtel and Ferrovial...

In the same week that London Underground announced 800 job cuts, LU was told to stump up an extra £460 million on top of its £4 billion budget to help private contractor Tube Lines deliver its contract. Even Boris has complained that taxpayers are being asked to write a ‘blank cheque’ to fund this...