Northern line

Long way down

Angel has the longest escalators on the Underground. Last week, two out of three were defective. The remaining one was heading up, so passengers had to make the long journey down by using one of the defective escalators as a stairway. Not surprisingly, three people fell in one evening. London...

Drivers Save Canteen Worker's Job

Sodexho, the canteen contractor, was planning a re-organisation at Morden depot which would have done away with the job of a weekend part-time worker.

Loads of drivers complained, and the next thing you know ... the company has had a rethink and her job is secure after all. A coincidence? We doubt...

Cooling the Tube and freezing the staff

Euston station is piloting the ‘Cooling the Tube’ project, which channels cool air into the ticket office, supervisor’s office, some of the platforms and the gateline. Whoever designed it allowed it to be turned off in Winter for all areas – except the gateline. So the gateline staff froze. A...

No staff for Christmas shoppers!

On the Saturday that Oxford Street was pedestrianised for Christmas shoppers - one of the busiest days of the year - there were only two CSAs working at Tottenham Court Road between 5am and 5pm! This made for a very stressful day for the staff on duty. Problem: the station is staffed to the bare...

Stairs Out Of Action

It appears that as we write, Kennington station's stairs are unusable, and the only way in or out of the station is the lifts. And yet a local DSM has decided that it is safe to keep the station open and trains running.

We don't agree. It's the Friday peak and the busiest day of the year for...

The basis of our bonus?

A CSA at Euston managed to get 0/100 for SATS. Pretty difficult to do, since you normally get some points for just being there. When it was investigated, it was not the CSA's fault for not being there, but the people that were monitoring it were on the wrong platform!

This is the system that...

Imposed rosters

Euston staff found out about their new roster when it was posted on a pin board with a notice ‘to take effect from 16th November’. So it looked like it was going ahead, without consulting the unions, breaking the agreement between the unions and management. The roster itself is not much...

Forcing CSAs off their group - again!

Eleven reserve CSA’s on the Goodge Street Group were sent letters last week warning them that they could be moved from their current group, which is over-establishment, to one that is under. Management have revealed their callous disregard for the lives of the staff they employ and another attempt...

Cutting costs, cutting staff

Management let slip at one of their 'Northern line meetings' their latest plans to cut costs, which involves ... (no surprise)... cutting back on staff!

There will be an overall reduction in the number of reserve staff, people who are transfered or promoted will not be replaced. The result? More...

Wot No OLBI?

When Goodge Street station was opened at the start of traffic the other week, the Online Battery Inverter was down, so the station had no back-up source of power. The Station Supervisor rang the DSM, pointing out that the Rule Book states that the station should therefore be closed. The DSM's...

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