Victoria line

Wot No Monitors? (Thank heavens for station staff...)

Technical problems led to monitors in Victoria Line train cabs going out of action on Tuesday 13 April.

That meant, at many busy stations, drivers relying more heavily than normal on CSAs doing SATS duties to make sure it was safe to close doors and move off. Teamwork between drivers and station...

Vic Line Drivers Show the Way

Following on from the success of Jubilee and Piccadilly drivers’ disputes over breakdowns of industrial relations, Vic Line drivers have been inspired assert themselves. Issues include counting dependency leave as part of attendance discipline, refusing to convene flexible working and grievance...

Too Eager to Open?

On 13th May, a power failure at Seven Sisters resulted in stalled trains and the station closing. But after power came back and the station was re-opened, the fire brigade had to attend a small fire coming from the light fittings. LU part-opened the station straight away and opened it fully a...

To lamp or not to lamp?

Vic line managers say that station staff no longer have to show a green signal to the driver of the last trains. This has caused some confusion, with some stations following the old procedure and other stations following the new one.

The new signalling system is more reliable than station staff at...

Vic Line WTT34

LU plan to implement a new Vic Line timetable in May to take advantage of the
train and signalling upgrade. Only problem: none of it works as intended. The £9m trains each throw up all manner of defects. Their potential speed cannot
be relied upon; LU are implementing changes slower than planned...

Necessary Delays

Problems persist with the sensitive edge door technology on the Victoria Line.

Recently, four sensitive edge incidents in ten minutes resulted in a 40 minute delay; the service didn't recover that day.

Management hate the sensitive edge technology because it messes with their precious reliability...

"Benefit Realisations"?!

Despite repeated problems with the Victoria line train doors, management seem determined to plough ahead with Automatic Door Opening.

The small matter of passenger safety is obviously not going to detract our intrepid bosses from pursuing their goal of saving money, whoops we really mean improving...

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