Victoria line

Justice for James!

London Underground's continuing refusal to reinstate James Masango is beneath contempt. Remember, this is the guy who management forced to drive a train when he was sick, then when he made the inevitable mistake, sacked him. Even the Employment Tribunal has seen the obvious - that LUL's dismissal of...

VIPs Not Welcome at Victoria?

A manager has sent a message round the job telling other stations not to send visually-impaired passengers to Victoria during the evening peak. It seems that the one-way system has made things a bit tricky, especially as, following the OSP, there aren't enough staff to help.

What a disgrace. The...

Reverse This Unfair Sacking

An Employment Tribunal has ruled that London Underground sacked driver James Masango unfairly. Quite right too. James had a doctor's note stating that he was not fit to drive, LU made him drive anyway, and when he made an error, fired him!

What Tubeworker wants to know now is: firstly, when does...

Vic Line: Good Service?

Victoria Line management spend a lot of their time at the moment telling drivers to over-ride the sensitive edge door equipment on the new trains. If something is stuck in the door, however tiny, the doors will not close and the train cannot move. It is causing delays and is one of the many...

A Fiver for a Rounder!

Negotiations have uncovered management's latest plan: to offer small sums to induce drivers to work over their time during the Olympics. An extra 30 minutes will be £10, an extra 15 minutes will be £5, etc. This offer has been dubbed 'a fiver for a rounder!'

In the context of the multi-million...

Vic Line: Upgrade or Upset?

The Vic line upgrade is beset with pitfalls for drivers. The headline issue has been the fiasco of the sensitive edge doors, first reported on back in November. But there are other matters too.

Management want trains travelling at line speed rather than slow speed into sidings; a slack system for...

Extra-Sensitive

The new Victoria line stock has sensitive doors, designed to enhance safety by preventing the train from moving if anything is trapped in the doors.

It turns out, though, that they are so sensitive that pressure on the doors causes the train to remain stationary for several minutes - and in the...

On Course for Collision?

Remember that near miss on the Vic line that we reported a while back? It seems that management may be risking such incidents happening again.

The Line's management want to introduce 'auto start' when an '09 train stops. But if a driver auto-started a '67 stock, the train might miss braking...

Near Miss

One of the new features of the Vic line's 09 stock is the 'sensitive edge', whcih enables the doors to detect even quite small obstructions and to stop the train. In 1997, a boy was killed at Holborn station when a train dragged him by the toggle of his coat caught in a door, so this new tehcnology...

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