Jubilee line

Platform CCTV Shambles

On the Jubilee Line at Wembley Park, there as in issue with the in cab CCTV. It sometimes shows the opposite platform as you depart. If the timing is right (or wrong) it can look as though the doors have opened and people are getting off as you move along, because passengers are disembarking the...

More Secret Trials On The Jubilee Line?

New equipment has been put on some Jubilee Line trains that allows management, controllers and maintainers to get near live info from the trains equipment. It is transmitted via station WiFi. It would probably feel less like being spied on had we been told what was being done, before it was done....

Drivers: Say No To Framework-Busting Trial!

The trial of a four-day week on the Jubilee Line could begin soon. The trial will see drivers working the same weekly hours but over four days rather than five. That means longer shifts of up to 10 hours when a meal break is included. And not just longer shifts, but longer "handle time." Maximum...

LU Withdraws 24/7 Staffing Of Control Rooms On The Jubilee Extension

In a move that provides further evidence that "Fit for the Future" is a dressed-up exercise in cutting jobs, LU have announced that station control rooms on the Jubilee Line extension (Stratford to Green Park) will no longer be staffed 24/7.

The company claims that the agreement stipulating the...

Keystone Cops Lead To Danger For Jubilee Drivers

Over the last couple of weeks on the Jubilee line, objects have been thrown on the track from the same location five times. Line management implemented measures which it was thought would solve the issue - clearing rubbish from the area, CCTV, lighting, and 24-hour surveillance by security for a...

Jubilee Line driver vindicated

Tubeworker was pleased to hear that a Jubilee Line driver who faced the sack is now back on the front of a train.

The driver was accused of reading a paper in his cab - something he has consistently said he did not do. His colleagues support him.

Because he is a member of a fighting union, he...

Cuts mean delays

There was an unnecesarily long delay on the Jubilee Line this week as staff shortages meant a smouldering on the track couldn't be dealt with quickly.

The nearest station had no supervisor and so one needed to travel down from elsewhere. What would have happened had there been another incident...

Water Load Of Rubbish

Canada Water station (on the Jubilee Line and London Overground) is to be renamed "Buxton Water" for a day on Sunday 26 April, to tie in with Buxton's co-sponsorship of the London Marathon which takes place that day.

This is the first time a Tube station has been named after a commercial sponsor...

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