Northern line

Wot No One-Under?

Last weekend, some bright spark thought it would be a jolly good idea to conduct a mock one-under in order to practise staff response to such an incident. The only problem was ... They didn't bother telling the station staff that it was a drill!

The staff at Kentish Town thought it was a genuine...

Mystery Shopper

Since the beginning of April the Northern Line has not been stopping at Tottenham Court Road. Slight puzzle, then, when TCR was marked 'red' for making no announcements on the Northern Line platforms in the month of April.

The amount of managers' energy spent on getting 'green' scorecards might...

Category A

Northern Line platforms were always 'category A' platforms. A member of station staff needed to be on the platform for 'assisted dispatch' if the in-cab CCTV did not have a full view of the platform.

Northern Line management are now in the process of recategorising the majority of platforms from...

Defend Our Reps!

Last Saturday, drivers on the Bakerloo line and at the Northern line's Morden depot again took strike action to demand the reinstatement of sacked workmates Eamonn Lynch (RMT health & safety rep) and Arwyn Thomas (longstanding RMT activist) respectively. Despite management turning up the pressure on...

Raining Buckets

Tottenham Court Road Station is being re-built to make room for Crossrail. But they are attempting to build around the station while keeping it open to the public.

The plan is literally showing cracks - so big that water is gushing through! As they drill and excavate the ground immediately above...

Defend your union - stop these victimisations!

Yesterday, the Bakerloo line was shut down and the Northern line disrupted as drivers took action to defend victimised workmates Eamonn Lynch and Arwyn Thomas.

Their sackings are part of a vindictive backlash against union organisation following recent effective strikes. By attacking union reps and...

Runaway Train

On the Northern Line, At 0640 at Finchley, the rear of an engineering train travelling north on the southbound road became de-coupled and travelled all the way down to Warren Street. It was only stopped by the gradient of the track.

There was a train in passenger service ahead at Tottenham Court...

Smoke and Mirrors

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...

Grasping at Drops in the Ocean

A senior Northern Line manager has come up with an excellent cost-saving efficiency. Cutting senior managers' fat-cat pay? No more pay-outs to private companies who milk LU for profit?

No! It has been identified that a major contributor to LU's £2.5 billion black hole is not the bail-out of...

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