Gants Hill Station closed due to vandalism

Oh, not Gants Hill! Please tell me it wasn't the platforms. . .

Ditto

Aren't stations manned even though there's no service? I seem to recall this being mentioned on here before.

Nope.. all locked up. I believe there is one mobile SS per area of line (roughly about 10 stations or so), he moves around with access to company vehicle.

And to answer a earlier question. No, CCTV isn't remotely monitored. Only viewable in the SS office.

We are in danger of giving vandals details of LU's security precautions (or lack of) here.

In fact there were new procedures tried this year but I won't go into those.

The EDF workers' strike also complicated matters with regard to traction current. Hopefully that won't be a problem next year.

Yep, opened start of traffic today (Saturday) but closed all day yesterday.

Ah yes....I recall the vandalism at Camden Town a few years' ago....terrible. Someone got in and destroyed all the original 1900s tiling, then fly-posted every painted area with black posters advertising XFM Radio....(oh hang on....that was "official" vandalism...).

Some C stocks were done over Xmas saw a couple of murials at Liverpool St on Saturday.

Wood Lane can monitor all Track to Train CCTV at all stations but obviously not all at the same time and are privvy to total station coverage at only a handful of City stations...

Volunteers were asked for to cover Xmas Day at the SCC but the 'Xmas Scrooge' was not being very festive so nobody took up the offer of pay x 2.

If management were that worried and had no volunteers then why didn't they spoil ther own Xmas Day and go in to man these places, oh I forgot, that type of thing is for the low life workers and not for jumped up managers, might have got themselves an MBE for it.......

Assuming the 'decorators' didn't come in at street level then the obvious deterrent is to leave the juice on and hope they make a rather large mistake.......

@cravens60ts - lots of people nowadays, as someone has already commented, are happy to work on Christmas Day, whether it be to get out of the house or because of non-religious reasons. Double pay to me sounds fair and I'd be happy to do that - I don't know why you're making it into a 'lowlife' staff vs management issue! If they offered 5 x pay, it'd be in the tabloids for extravagant spending of public money!

Please, keep it clean and civil..

Actually that surely equals pay x3 - since you would be paid twice for Xmas day, plus once for the day you took off in lieu? It doesn't sound bad at all - outwith the rail industry people are on much less.

I probably fit that description quite accurately - but why should I be expected to work it? Just cos I'm single, don't have kids of my own and am not into any sort religion*.......why the heck should I sacrifice myself ahead of anyone else?

Generally I'm extremely tolerant of others views (let's forget I'm an admin of this forum for a minute) - but that just about takes the biscuit!

As with every other Christmas, this year I was with my best mate & his family.........I got to see his kids open their presents (I've known them both since the day they were born) - I might not have kids of my own but getting to see them get excited etc, etc, was magic enough for me. Why should I automatically have to miss out on that and be at the front of the queue to work Christmas day just because I don't have a wife or kids of my own?

I absolutely love the whole Christmas day thing and would never ever willingly work it just cos I'm single and have no kids - and no amount of money would change my mind on that one.

* Religion isn't actually all that relevant to this thread, but just in case it dose crop up, please remember the forum rules folks!

Colin. I tried to write that in such a way as to point out that that is exactly what some Managers expect and has in fact been suggested, it was in no way meant to stereotype those that fit that bill, just a generalisation..... and I agree wholeheartedly with you, why should you be expected to work.

Chris M. Door to Door means Home to Work and return, if they want you to volunteer to work Xmas Day then there must be a premium to pay.

When the tube used to run on Christmas Day till about 15:00 the only job that needed to be covered at Hainault was Leytonstone call point,we used to have a Jehova's Witness on our shift,guess who was always booked in!!!