Security

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...

Readers might remember our report about District Line Control telling station staff to remove 'lost property' from a train - except it wasn't lost property but an unattended bag. Well, we had hoped that following complaints by the station concerned, this unfortunate and unsafe incident would not be...

LUL management have compiled an audit of distribution of Operational Standards Notices (OSNs). Although they claim it shows the system to be "robust", further reading reveals that in fact, OSNs aren't getting round to frontline staff nearly as efficiently and effectively as they should.

If this was...

Terrorist Gets Tube Job screamed the headline on the Evening Standard's poster boards. For a fleeting moment, Tubeworker thought that they might mean Bob Kiley, what with him being a former CIA agent and the CIA notoriously assisting various terrorist outfits. But hey, that would be both years out...

The east end of the District line has been bugged by problems of violence for some time. The latest dangerous invident was on Thursday afternoon, when someone shot at drivers between West Ham and Bromley-By-Bow with an air rifle. At least one D and one C stock were hit. The service, already running...

Late one August night, BTP report to Paddington SS that there's an unattended bag heading north on the Bakerloo. (Hang on, why didn't the BTP deal with it? They are, erm, the Police, after all.)

Anyway, the SS tells Line Control, who plan to get it checked at Queen's Park. But Line Control has a...

We're all supposed to be on heightened alert for terror attacks, right? So abandoned, suspect bags should be dealt with under the HOT procedure, right? Or is it one rule for operational staff but another for Line Control?

The problem for the company is that dealing properly with a suspect package...

Found this story on the net and although it stems from one of the infamous "Red Tops" which litter the British press,if there is an element of truth in it then there is a cause for concern.

'Terror risk' over nuclear cargo
A newspaper reporter walked up to an unattended train carrying nuclear...

It's OK, everyone. Calm down. King's Cross is a 'low-risk' station. We know this because London Underground Ltd says so.

Sure, lots of people died in a fire there in the 1987. And some more people died between Kings Cross and Russell Square a year ago today. Oh yeah, and it's one of the busiest...

Odd isn't it? How the government mourns the victims and praises the staff over the 7th July bombings ... then when it thinks we're not looking, tries to cheat people out of a bit of compensation.

OK, not so much 'odd' as downright disgusting.

In fact, the government's new proposals for Criminal...