Central line

At Ealing Broadway station, the cleaners have no mess room. They have to hide in the toilets to rest and eat their meals.

And yet their management, rather than sort them out some decent facilities, prefer to clamp down. When the toilets have been busy, cleaners have been seen resting on trains or...

Refurb work at Loughton station involves resurfacing the platforms. A tip to Metronet: make sure the new surface has actually set before you let passengers stand on it. One particular passenger was aggrieved to find her bag covered in black sticky stuff ...

This follows an incident during the hot...

Yesterday's derailment on the Central line was in the same place as another incident just six weeks ago. On May 21, a train struck a P-way storage bin left by the track, and was lucky not to derail. Union health & safety reps complained to management and demanded an investigation. This was not the...

We were recently telling you about under-staffing causing problems with getting drivers re-licensed. Seems this affects other grades too.

Out on the Barkingside group, managers have been trying it on with staff, telling them that the company has "done away with" the requirement for 28 days' notice...

Note to LUL management ... the word 'upgrade' suggests that a station's facilities are to be improved. Hence, removing the Omniscan cameras from Bank/Monument - that's the ones you can spin around in all directions and zoom in on anything in view - is a bad idea.

Anyone would think that upgrade...

OK, so a station undergoing a refurb is never going to be the most comfortable place to work, but St Pauls became a nightmare. A mess room unfit to eat in, toilets unfit to use, staff feeling vulnerable on the gateline late at night cos the Supervisors' office has been temporarily relocated away...

Ever get that feeling you're being followed? Well, if you're a Central Line driver, it might be true.

At both White City and Leytonstone, drivers taking a PNR have been followed to the khazi by certain DMTs, keen to minimise the hold-up by ensuring you are not loitering.

Drivers are wondering...

During refurb work at Epping, Metronet has employed a security guard to protect its worksite. But the guard has been getting rather too close to the ticket barrier, on occasion looking like a substitute member of station staff.

Local union reps complained, and Metronet'sman backed off for a while...

Management seem to think it is OK for Central Line drivers to learn about the new White City sidings in the classroom. That is, just in the classroom. No need to actually, erm, drive a train. We don't think so.

Could this be yet another case of corner-cutting? We do think so.

Contractor ISS is still trying to sneak in biometric booking-on systems for cleaners - but it is coming up against the power of all-grades trade unionism.

RMT has an agreement with Metronet that neither the Infraco nor any of its contractors will use such systems. They are an infringement of...