Where would they get the drivers and trains from at such short notice?
(We have to have at least 2 weeks notice of change of duties).

Don't they have some extra stock available? (above number needed for
normal peak hour service?)
Is there any emergency procedure to recall staff to work?

On 17 Aug, 22:48, Alex wrote:
Where would they get the drivers and trains from at such short notice?
(We have to have at least 2 weeks notice of change of duties).

Don't they have some extra stock available? (above number needed for
normal peak hour service?)

No - the system's running to capacity as it is. They could increase
the off-peak service to peak levels, that's about it.

Is there any emergency procedure to recall staff to work?

What, on a system where the management is so completely whipped by the
unions that people are seriously about to go on strike because their
pay rise was lower than the pay rise of people working for a different
company doing a vaguely similar job...?

You're having a laugh, right?

--
John Band
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www.johnband.org

"Alex" wrote in message
...

Where would they get the drivers and trains from at such short
notice?
(We have to have at least 2 weeks notice of change of duties).

Don't they have some extra stock available? (above number needed for
normal peak hour service?)
Is there any emergency procedure to recall staff to work?

The other lines are operating at full capacity in the peaks so even if
you had spare trains and drivers they couldn't be fitted in with the
normal peak service.

Peter Smyth

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:48:21 -0700 (PDT), Alex
wrote:


Where would they get the drivers and trains from at such short notice?
(We have to have at least 2 weeks notice of change of duties).

Don't they have some extra stock available? (above number needed for
normal peak hour service?)
Is there any emergency procedure to recall staff to work?

Hiow would they manage to impose that? Crow would pull everyone out on
strike!

In message , James Farrar
writes

Where would they get the drivers and trains from at such short notice?
(We have to have at least 2 weeks notice of change of duties).

Don't they have some extra stock available? (above number needed for
normal peak hour service?)
Is there any emergency procedure to recall staff to work?

Hiow would they manage to impose that? Crow would pull everyone out on
strike!

Not me he wouldn't, I'm not in his union.

I can't be recalled to work as I (as do the rest of us) work five days
in seven. For safety reasons, I'm not allowed to work my rest days. In
fact it's in my COE that I can't even engage in a part time job, if I
wanted to, without the permission of my employing manager. When I'm at
work, I'm rostered to the hilt, often getting off a train exactly at the
minute I book off duty. We cannot be asked to work overtime as that
would potentially take us over our (legal) parameters.

Those on annual leave are on leave and they cannot be called into work.

The only (vague) possibility would be to use a couple of spares, but as
has already been mentioned, most lines are already at capacity train
wise and no more can be fitted in without causing delays.
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Spares what a novel idea, I must suggest that one to Metropolitan Line
"management" they'll fall off their chairs laughing.

The only (vague) possibility would be to use a couple of spares, but as
has already been mentioned, most lines are already at capacity train
wise and no more can be fitted in without causing delays.

In message , www.waspies.net
writes
Spares what a novel idea, I must suggest that one to Metropolitan Line
"management" they'll fall off their chairs laughing.
The only (vague) possibility would be to use a couple of spares, but
as has already been mentioned, most lines are already at capacity
train wise and no more can be fitted in without causing delays.

Quite agree - our lot have heard of them but they're usually out driving
uncovered turns!
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On Aug 18, 8:07*pm, Steve Fitzgerald ] wrote:
In message ,www.waspies.net
writes

Spares what a novel idea, I must suggest that one to Metropolitan Line
"management" they'll fall off their chairs laughing.
*The only (vague) possibility would be to use a couple of spares, but
as has already been mentioned, most lines are already at capacity
train *wise and no more can be fitted in without causing delays.

Quite agree - our lot have heard of them but they're usually out driving
uncovered turns!

The DLR seems to be parking a spare train at Lewisham (been back days
apart and seen the same one there), but I don't suppose they are
making full use of the available rolling stock during the current
works.

On 18 Aug, 20:14, MIG wrote:
The DLR seems to be parking a spare train at Lewisham (been back days
apart and seen the same one there), but I don't suppose they are
making full use of the available rolling stock during the current
works.

The trains running the Lewisham-Island Gardens shuttle are trapped
down there by the building work, so if one of them fails they can't
bring another in from elsewhere.

(I'm not sure if it's the same trains stuck for the duration of the
works, or if the building site at Mudchute is occasionally shut down
to allow them to be swapped - but certainly they can't swap them at
short notice)

U

In message
,
Alex writes

Where would they get the drivers and trains from at such short notice?
(We have to have at least 2 weeks notice of change of duties).

Don't they have some extra stock available? (above number needed for
normal peak hour service?)

No. Trains are often cancelled for unavailable stock as it is. Just
because you might see one or two sat in a depot doesn't mean they are
actually available for service. After the 7/7 bombings, the Circle has
had one train regularly cancelled due to the lack of that one train.

Is there any emergency procedure to recall staff to work?

No.
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