Central line

Freeze Their Assets

When the snow fell on Wednesday morning, 90 points on the Central line failed, resulting in total chaos on the service.

The reason? Metronet, knowing there were freezing temperatures, had decided not to de-ice the points that night in order to save money. This money-saving measure ended up costing...

Clean Your Own Station?

Night cleaners have been removed on the Central line and District line. These cleaners work for ISS, the same company that is trying to lay off 200 cleaners on TubeLines contracts at the moment - a move that RMT is fighting.

An example of how cleaners' cutbacks affect us all is that cold weather...

Walkway - Or Slipways?

The new sidings at White City are now in use. Shame about the walkways being dangerous. Oh, and as for the ready-to-start plungers ...

Airwave Chaos

If management are serious about Airwave Radios being an essential safety system, maybe they should stop being so slapdash about their use. Turning up with thousands of quids worth of equipment in a Sainsbury's carrier bag, giving it to station staff with the most cursory of briefings, and then...

Not Enough Staff = Not Enough Safety

Last night at Bank, call point operation triggered an evacuation ... and the P.A. failed. No Inspector Sands, no P.A. from the control room, nothing.

With superhuman effort, the staff evacuated the complex in twenty minutes. Fortunately, it was a false alarm. Had it been a fire, people would have...

Ticket Office Impossible

Note to Central Line management ... If you justify slashing SAMF jobs at the largest station on your line (Bank) by closing one of its ticket offices, then it stands to reason that when you finally see sense and reopen the office, you have to bring back at least a couple of the jobs you cut...

How Inconvenient

A Supervisor at Snaresbrook took a trip to the khazi when something unexpected happened ... a light fitting fell on his head, knocking him out and necessitating a stay in hospital. Apparently, the contractors had used the wrong shaped fixing.

It's no laughing matter, as it becomes more and more...

Bomb Alert? Keep Going ...

Late one Sunday evening at the start of this month, a driver pulled into West Ruislip and let his passengers off. He noticed that the train in the opposite platform was closed up and asked its driver why. The answer? There was a suspect suitcase on the train and they were waiting for the bomb squad...

Lost Connection

Note to NOC ... The purpose of introducing a new staff taxi timetable is to enable more staff to get to work with speed and convenience. It is therefore not a good idea for your new timetable to dispense with a useful connection at Leytonstone and thus leave several Central Line station staff unable...

Up The Wall Again

The job was up the wall on the District, Circle and Central Lines this morning, due to yet more late surrenders by Metronet. Severe delays are continuing through the morning.

Sorry, were we just saying that Metronet is crap?

Doubtless, LUL and the Mayor will make all the usual statements about how...

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