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Were you a member of the trade union before you needed their assistance or did you join afterwards? The lack of validity of the TfL Staff Pass here is very explicit on the materials given when the pass is issued and on the company intranet, (plus other documents such as the traffic circular)...

No idea about the horses, but there is an agreement with UK TOCs for Guide Dogs in Training to travel on "short, local" journeys for training purposes. Their handlers, (trainer, puppy raiser, fosterer) have a letter issued from RDG to carry for this. A similar agreement applies on London...

Agree to disagree - the vast majority of stalled trains are resolved in less than 60 minutes. You just don’t hear about them unless it all goes wrong!

There are a couple - but not massively useful in the situation described - they’re not remotely controlled. LU doesn’t approach stalled trains like Network Rail does - the aim is to have everyone off of a train within an hour.

Intriguing to the line controllers too - always a difficult one when needing to switch power off in an emergency. With such a large section you're almost guaranteed to trap a train mid section.

Two arms waving above your head. Straight up in the LU Rules is "stop at me" whereas waving is "stop immediately". I understand this is different in the Network Rail rules which is where the confusion may be from.

Not correct - two different trains, the second becoming apparent after the first was cleared

Correct, though there was no established procedure being followed.

Overnight last night

The Jubilee Line SCC has had issues with the DMIs across the whole line failing to receive information, recently. They should be fixed now.

Yes, exactly that. Most control rooms have a fleet engineer / maintainer based in them, to give remote fault diagnosis/resolution assistance to train operators. They'll normally monitor their 'required' units, in addition to giving a list of them to the signallers. Of course, service comes...

Expected Order Arriving Train_____T/Ops Next Train 101_____________104 102_____________105 103_____________106 104_____________107 105_____________108 106_____________109 107_____________110 Actual Arriving Order and reforms 101______remain 101 104______make 102 102______make 103...

And an important point with this - those on banded roles are therefore being asked by the company to accept a pay deal without being told whether it will apply to them or not. The company has said they’ll apply it at their discretion, but hasn’t stated how they’ll use that discretion.

The bottom of the existing pay bands doesn’t move, so there are operational staff still affected by this with the current offer.

No, unless the line was suspended North of East Finchley. The only place a train can go from East Finchley Northbound is onwards to Finchley Central, or reversing via the main line meaning no other service could proceed until the driver had changed ends. A train would not be reversed North to...