DMTs to be Trained in Control Rooms
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Trains are trains, and service control is service control, you'd think.
Service control
Defend Tony Crump!
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LUL has summarily dismissed Earls Court signaller Tony Crump, for a mistake at work.
Wot No Controller?
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The Waterloo and City line may be a little short, but it still needs controlling like any other line.
Service Control: Fight These 'Restructuring' Attacks
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Service control staff were barely out of one naff 'restructuring' than we faced another. This time, it is all about 'upgrading' to super new control centres.
Corrective Action Plan
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At Earls Court control centre, management have introduced 'corrective action plans'. A member of staff gets so many 'items' and they are hauled off by a manager to 'agree' and implement a plan.
Wot No Service Control?
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The good news is that the RMT leadership has responded to the arguments of rank-and-file activists and agreed to an all-grades ballot against casualisation and de-staffing.
Licences Expired (Again)
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It seems that many of the Control Room staff at Neasden have been working despite their safety-critical licensing having expired.
That's Magic
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Traffic Circular 38 contained a rather odd recruitment advert. Service Controllers wanted, should have a 'bit of magic' and the ability to 'make problems disappear'!
Could this be an admission by management that mere Muggles can not operate their system? Could that be because of impractical timetables, knackered equipment and stress-packed working conditions?
Watching You
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Tubeworker recommends to Endemol and Channel Four a possible venue for the next series of Big Brother - the new Waterloo & City line signal cabin.
It's got cameras pointing at the staff, though no-one seems to know who's looking at the monitors. And you have to walk through the changing room to get into the cabin, meaning that people don't get to change in private.
Going Home
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'Tube Meltdown' screamed the newspaper headlines as this morning several lines went totally up the wall.
One upshot was that some early-turn Earls Court service control staff were held up on their way to work. Apparently, management decided that it wasn't really worth sending a taxi to get them in, presumably expecting that the night shift would just hang around until their reliefs got there.