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Post by pitdiver on Jun 18, 2015 8:30:02 GMT
Can anybody tell me when the RTC closed it's doors to future LUL employees and an even more difficult question. When would the last intake of "traditional" Booking Clerks have been
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Post by pitdiver on Jun 18, 2015 8:26:42 GMT
Is the background picture HMNB Devonport?
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Post by pitdiver on Jun 10, 2015 5:58:49 GMT
D: Don't know about the station but the Pier is at Weston-Super-Mare.
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Post by pitdiver on May 24, 2015 13:08:28 GMT
I really don't think the City Of London could care if Liverpool Street shuts as they make their money from the people that work in the City and finish at 1700/1800 hrs. I should think most of the City Of London is shut down by 1900hrs. It did when I worked at Algate Booking Office.
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Post by pitdiver on Apr 23, 2015 14:30:29 GMT
I don't live in London and as far as I'm aware Oyster hasn't reached out as far as Flitwick. I therefore have never held an Oyster card Priv or otherwise. I and my wife both hold PTAC s as I am retired. I have been told in the past I need to apply for a Priv Oyster card if i want to receive priv rate fares on LUL.
I don't I just purchase a priv return to West Hampstead and get a 1&2 Zone paper T/C.
So if what bluegoblin7 says is true where will I get my priv tkt for LUL use from or shall I not bother and just carry on as now.
The worst thing LUL/TfL did was to do away with with the priv one day tkt.
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Post by pitdiver on Mar 22, 2015 15:56:11 GMT
I worked on the Northern Line as a Stn Supervisor just as the 95Ts came into use. It was fun when they were doing test run's as I had one sit down in my platform at GST and shed it's load, Upset the whole line for the best part of half a day as no one was really sure what had happened so couldn't figure out how to fix it.
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Post by pitdiver on Mar 19, 2015 8:25:19 GMT
What about the station staff that will be required to run a station. Particularly those in the centre will the same number that is required during the day be required at night. As an ex Station Supervisor I use to work nights. I hated it. It wasn't so much the night working but the transitioning back to days. This was what messed up my body clock. Because of this transitioning period won't more day staff be required to cover for those coming off nights.
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Post by pitdiver on Jan 6, 2015 8:23:43 GMT
As a former Stn Supervisor who worked at TCR on the odd occasion I too would love to be here on Monday to see how the "Customers" react to the new routeway.
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Post by pitdiver on Dec 15, 2014 8:11:58 GMT
Those members who are or were LUL employees what do you consider your most pointless duty/shift.
Mine was the late duty Booking Office turn on Christmas Eve at the end of the Met. Specifically Watford Met. My first year I sat in the office until the correct closing time and took just over £10 on the window. To rub salt in the wound I had requested a special Christmas Taxi to take me home. The following year I also got the same duty. When I requested a Special Taxi I was asked how much I had taken the previous year. When I mentioned how much my GSM nearly choked. He allowed me to close early and catch the last train from Watford Junction. As a matter of interest on that night I took about £12 on the window
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Post by pitdiver on Dec 14, 2014 15:19:48 GMT
When I joined LUL in 1989 it seemed that each line had a Chief Booking Clerk. Were these all the same grade or was one more senior than the others Similar to the most senior WO's the British Army ie Conductor, Royal Logistic Corps Royal Artillery Sergeant Major, Royal Artillery Academy Sergeant Major, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Garrison Sergeant Major, London District
There the most Senior WO is a Loggie Conductor and not a WO from the Guards.
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Post by pitdiver on Nov 18, 2014 17:38:25 GMT
As a former resident of New Southgate I am interested in what goes on there. I have discovered that there is a large scale redevelopment taking place in the next few years. Of which private housing plays a large part. At the moment I certainly would not want to move back. However when the redevelopment is complete it may well attract a large number of commuters who would like a quicker route into the City/Canary Wharf areas.
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Post by pitdiver on Nov 17, 2014 17:22:22 GMT
I think you are getting a little bit mixed up. The development at New Southgate is in relation to CrossRail 2. I believe the Thameslink scheme is a different Project. As far as I'm aware Crossrail 2 will stop at a new station Euston-St Pancras.http://crossrail2.co.uk/
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Post by pitdiver on Nov 4, 2014 7:30:16 GMT
To some extent, I don't think uniform should attempt to be fashionable, as fashions change like seasons and something that is in fashion one week will be horribly dated the next. Workwear, like any other form of industrial design, needs to be suitable for the task and practical. As Frank Pick used to promote, it needs to have a 'fitness for purpose'. The current uniform needed improving, yes. Improving on choices available, quality, and fit. It didn't need a designer to come along and stick badly proportioned roundels on every single item. This uniform will end up looking old before its time and will probably have to be reworked in about three years or so to make it more acceptable to the wearers. I can see a lot of trouble with this. There's no way that staff are going to wear this in its current form, and the "mix & match" nature of the new uniform lends itself to staff adding items of their own, or from the current uniform. I can't see local management enforcing this as they will be just as unhappy with it. Meanwhile I suspect some areas will develop their own local uniforms, I know of one forward-looking business unit which has done this already! What amuses me slightly, part of the brief for the new uniform was to make staff more 'visible'. In my view one of the only issues with the design of the current uniform is that, unlike the superb 1990s uniform, it does not feature the red/blue LU roundel, but instead makes use of the plain blue TFL roundel. I seem to remember this was a deliberate decision, perhaps to save cost by enabling items to be used by staff across TFL. Perhaps if they had just taken the current uniform and added the correct roundel in appropriate locations, without using it in so-called 'clever' ways, they could have achieved the visibility objective without the need to waste a huge amount of money. Can you remind me what the superb 1990's uniform was like as I cant place it. I started in 1989.
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Post by pitdiver on Nov 3, 2014 21:12:51 GMT
As a former LUL employee I think the new uniform is awful. would be seen dead in it if that was possible.
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Post by pitdiver on Oct 25, 2014 7:28:43 GMT
I'll have a pop at Euston.
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Post by pitdiver on Oct 18, 2014 20:28:14 GMT
Rubber lens hoods are readily available. Check on the interweb or find a decent camera shop. they should be able to sort you out.
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Post by pitdiver on Oct 14, 2014 6:55:09 GMT
There will be a link to Euston when HS2 is built That was being talked about when I worked on the Met in 1989. I will believe it when I see it and walk through it.
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Post by pitdiver on Sept 28, 2014 8:51:49 GMT
I'll a take a pop at Farringdon
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Post by pitdiver on Sept 26, 2014 8:05:55 GMT
Plus 1 for inset 2 Maldon, Essex. With possibly Kitty, Pudge, Centaur, Hydrogen or Wyvenhoe moored at the Quay
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Post by pitdiver on Sept 21, 2014 11:33:58 GMT
Good gracious that timetable brings back some memories. I was a BC2 based at either Watford/Croxley back then. I always remembered the 3TPH on a Sunday. We would have fun if on the odd occasion one was cancelled possibly a 40 minute gap for a passenger who had JUST missed the prior train. When I was upgraded to SS(MF) on a nice summer Sunday would go for a walk along the trackside looking for a "reported" lineside obstruction. Halcyon days!
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Post by pitdiver on Aug 14, 2014 19:15:27 GMT
I could write a very long list of terms I find cringeworthy, most of which have crept into everyday use over the last 10 or 15 years for no reason that I can see other than to make the person using them sound more "with it". Sadly the capital city is the market leader when it comes to pointless verbal horse droppings and it's even seeping into Yorkshire now, such is the power of the idiot box and the internet. As well as Customer instead of Passenger, here's a few examples of things I'll never ever say........unless taking the proverbial of course....... 24/7 ("all day, all week" is just fine) Just sayin' (I'm not a mid-western American DJ) Laters (laziness in language is just embarrassing) Drill down (when describing looking into data more closely) Wimbleware (obviously....) And many, many more.........some will say its evolution of language. I fear the reverse is true. I detest it when my wife is referred to as 'your partner' I usually respond: "no this lady is my wife, we're not running a company. I think all this 'cr*p speak' started when companies started holding seminars. I remember going to one about ten years ago, when I was a service manager, the topic being 'communicating with your customer base' (You're ahead of me but stay with it) After the first hour of 'thinking outside the box' and the usual America speak, the suit asked if there were any questions. From the back of the room, a manager of many years experience asked: "Could you repeat the last hour in plain English, and not the Madison Avenue advertising cr*p speak?" At the end of the day we had to fill in a questionnaire, most of the answers were "Total waste of time/don't teach your granny to suck eggs etc" It's when you find out how much these suits charge for a day is when you really feel hacked off t can remember a similar incident. I have been involved in customer facing jobs since I left school many years ago. During my time with National Express it was decided that I should attend a "Customer Care" course. It transpired that the course was going to being run by some "consultant" who it appeared had only just come out of nappies. We were all asked what sort of jobs we had had. When I replied I had spent about 25 years dealing with customers/passengers I think the consultant had wished the ground would open up and swallow her.
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Post by pitdiver on Aug 14, 2014 12:37:17 GMT
Yes, I'd forgotten they skip Wembley Park as well. I suppose it saves a few minutes. I guess lots of people have their little routine commutes - you can probably get quite slick. Well I suppose it can give you five more minutes in bed/a five minute buffer/five minutes to have a tea when you arrive at the office. As a former Station Supervisor at Croxley it always seemed the case that you could set your watch by the arrival of particular passengers. These were the one's who were going to catch the semi-fasts.
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Post by pitdiver on Aug 7, 2014 6:24:17 GMT
As an ex station supervisor they were more trouble than they were worth. Specially if someone lost money in them. The poor old station staff would get in the neck if this had happened and we had no control over them.
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Post by pitdiver on Aug 5, 2014 21:19:21 GMT
Just to add my two pennoth. I use to be a Station Supervisor at Goodge Street. I can confirm that the lifts would operate in landing control during the peaks the rest of the time automatically. We would occasionally run them in car control. They could also be operated in engineer mode where the lift engineer could operate the lift from on top of the lift car, This for obvious reason would over rule the other operating modes.
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Post by pitdiver on Jul 29, 2014 20:31:25 GMT
Mine must be Notting Hill Gate. I started and finished my LUL career there (with several stations, a few offices, a spell at RTC & four lines along the way). From a staff perspective the smaller stations or even less busy Central stations like Chancery Lane & St Pauls had a good crowd. Stations on the old East London line were interesting to work, but were a bit too quiet for my liking. I preferred the hustle and bustle of a busy station. Tottenham Court Road was like a continuing episode of Hill Street Blues. Whichever way you turned - something off beat was going on! Worst was probably Baker Street & Oxford Circus. Both were a bit clicky, you either fitted in or you didn't! And I didnt. I must agree. You were either a part of the clique or you weren't. I found that at Moorgate. I worked there just after qualifying as a BC2. I also agree with the statement about TCR there was always something going on, as an SS2 I didn't normally work at TCR was rostered at Goodge St. However one Sunday I stepped up and worked there. What an experience. I was glad to get back to Goodge St the following day.
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Post by pitdiver on Jul 29, 2014 10:58:13 GMT
As an ex LUL employee my favourite station has to be the one where I had to do least work LOL. That has to be Moor Park. Seriously my favourite Stns have to be Chorleywood and Chesham on the Met for the reason already stated. Then Waterloo as I if was using it it meant I was as a youngster on the way to somewhere by the sea Probably Isle of Wight or Weymouth. The same reasons make Waterloo my favourite London Terminus. Favourite BR stn outside London has to be Berney Arms as it's in my favourite county and so remote.
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Post by pitdiver on Jul 17, 2014 6:49:01 GMT
Main Picture Goodge Street exit side?
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Post by pitdiver on Jun 11, 2014 7:25:26 GMT
I have just red the article regarding extending Crossrail 2 to New Southgate. Why on earth? Is it it because there is plenty of space south of the station for depots etc or are there going to be any future developments in the vicinity. New Southgate Stn is a run down dump. the adjacent area is hardly a boom town. I should know what it's like> I lived there for 27 years.
I can only assume it may be the space issue but the land would need a great deal of work on it as It deem sto be definitely not on the level. Or if they are talking about the old Gasworks site then that would need even more work.
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Post by pitdiver on May 27, 2014 6:14:48 GMT
Isn't a shuttle either bus, train or whatever a service that runs without a timetable similar to the Maglev that use to run between Birmingham Airport and Birmingham International.
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Post by pitdiver on May 17, 2014 13:43:17 GMT
Just a small contribution. When I was trained as a Stn Sup because of Company Plan. I was instructed on the processes for doing stn to stn working. I seem to remember that it was necessary to have adequate numbers of staff available. Would this be the case now, would sufficient numbers be available particularly at that time of night and would they remember the procedures as in the 10 years I worked for LUL I never once used stn to stn working.
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