pitdiver
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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 revupminster on Jun 18, 2015 15:01:25 GMT
Booking Clerks ceased as a grade 17 Jan 1993 when multifunctional staff started and Chief Clerks became Station Supervisors 1, 2, 3, or Station Supervisor Multifunctionals.
Booking Clerks became generally Multifunctional Station Assistants although some trained as Supervisor 3 or went to Station Assistant.
Station Inspectors generally went to Supervisor 1 or 2. Station Foremen to Supervisor 2 or 3.
The losers were most Chief Clerks who returned to shift work which included nights and Station Inspectors who though working shifts not many worked nights. Indirectly Train drivers found it was no longer worthwhile transferring to the Station Supervisors grades which they often did for promotion.
Training for Booking Clerk was generally a 5/6 weeks but any recruits would have been told what was happening a few months before, I would guess.
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pitdiver
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Post by pitdiver on Jun 18, 2015 18:32:50 GMT
I was originally a booking clerk out on the Met. Some of my colleagues on the Met had been promoted under Action Stations they were known as if I can remember SSM. I was trained up to station supervisor level and was known as a Multifunctional Station Supervisor.
However when I moved to the Northern Line me and others at Goodge Street were known as Station Supervisor 2 Multifunctional. I don't think this was a very common grade but I may be wrong. If I remember I think my BC training lasted about 6-8 weeks
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towerman
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Post by towerman on Jun 19, 2015 12:07:19 GMT
I can remember when they did Dr Who rehearsals in the conference room next to the canteen.William Hartnell came across as a right miserable b*****d.
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Post by class411 on Jun 19, 2015 18:03:45 GMT
I can remember when they did Dr Who rehearsals in the conference room next to the canteen.William Hartnell came across as a right miserable b*****d. He was quite ill for some of the time he was playing the part. |
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Post by revupminster on Jun 19, 2015 22:29:18 GMT
Hartnell was before my time as the Doctor but I remember the Daleks in the hall (I can't remember a conference room) rehearsing. I started at the RTC in July 1967 and Patrick Troughton was the Doctor.
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