Central line

Timetable Trauma

The new timetable on the Central line is causing headaches all round.

Management imposed the new drivers' rosters with precious little notice, invoking their right to do so as it was an 'emergency'. However, the only emergency seems to be that they couldn't get their act together to do it in good...

Drivers' Ballots

RMT is balloting drivers on the Victoria Line, in a dispute over the Night Tube rosters. Reps weren’t properly consulted, and the new rosters threaten work/life balance.

Meanwhile, engineering train drivers are demanding pay parity, after some were awarded a 6.3% pay increase that workers rightly...

No to Driver Displacements

Remember that promise that there would be no detriment arising from the implementation of Night Tube? Remember that promise in the Pay and Night tube dispute settlement that work-life balance would not get worse and would get better where possible?

Well, those promises look like a sick joke to the...

Wot No Sidings?

The Central line sidings at Holborn are showing some wear and tear. So they are going to be repaired, right? Wrong.

Instead of putting things right, LUL intend to close them. Yep, don't bother giving them the brush-up that you can expect to have to carry out from time to time, just "decommission"...

Wot No Formal Investigation?

Tubeworker is beginning to wonder just how major an incident has to be before Central Line management will carry out a formal investigation.

Tree falling by the line and damaging trains? Nah. Tunnel roof falling in? Nah. Stabbing causing serious injuries? Nah.

Management seem to think that all...

Parking Pandemonium

With station staff shunted out to locations they don't really want to be at, one consequence has been chaos in staff parking. A situation already made difficult by limitation on staff parking facilities has descended into farce.

On the east end of the Central Line, staff who have signed up to the...

Power and Patronisation

So finally we have the Central Line running again after two days of chaos due to power supply problems.

The solution - unplugging the transformer at Roding Valley, moving it to Bow Road and plugging it in again - does not fill us with confidence about future recurrences.

Cue the arrival in our...

Fiddler on the Roof?

The Central Line is well and truly up the wall tonight after a chunk of tunnel roof collapsed onto the westbound track at Shepherd's Bush.

It appears that contractors extending the commercial empire of the Westfield Shopping Centre above managed to drill a hole so big that you could get a good look...

Cleaner? Or Site Person in Charge?

Some Interserve cleaners turning up for work on the east end guinea pig groups found that they were to be booked on using the new Fit for the Future - Stations app. This requires a PICER and by implication a Site Person in Charge who takes responsibility for the entire group.

But such a role is...

Chaos on 'Vanguard' Groups

One week in, and the 'vanguard groups' are in chaos, revealing what we knew all along - that management's policy isn't even Fit for the Present, let alone the Future.

Stations left unstaffed with ticket machines not working, staff sent from other stations to attend incidents at them, queues out of...

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