Annoying habits of 'tubers'

so, would someone 'new' to the tube be a 'tubey??? ;D ;D ;D

You mean you had to think before making "C stock" your vote? ;D ;D

Ignorance does it for me! Suppose i could vote for work experience Only kidding!

All of the above

A thing that used to annoy me when I was Guard were "Honkers" Guys (and sometimes gals) who suddenly blow their nose like the trumpets of Jericho. I once had just poured myself a mug of tea from the can on leaving Victoria when a geezer behind me did an impression of a foghorn. Made me jump and drop my tea! Rotten b*stard.

Even worse is when passengers hold doors open and these people aren't even on the platform.....in fact running through the cross-passages! More than likely when another train is right behind that one!

You see all sorts of funny and disgusting stuff up this end, people using Trains as Toliets, Playgrounds, Bedrooms (I'm not going to say what for because of the younger members on this forum) and so on.

I went for tourists, but only because there wasn't an option labelled 'all passengers'.

The trafikanter p##s me off so much, especially when someone going to North Acton takes the last seat at Greenford and I have to stand all the way to Holborn.

I have also been known to throw things at apprentices, so they and work experience folk can get on my nerves at times, the scary thing is they're thr future of the system and half of them are thick as brown stuff.

I was struggling to pick just one from a very comprehensive list and was gonna say all of them. I came back today for one last look before posting - and I spotted 'Line Controllers'. That's the one for me !! ;D
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AAAhhh!!!!

Now you mustn't be too hard on the "do this do that" boys. After all they are employed to sit on the rear and play with the train set. Having said that when you meet them they are generally quite nice geezers and probably know more that the average driver does. (If they came up through the grades that is. If they didn't they probably don't know rear from elbow)

You are, the electric doors couldn't be held open. Sadly both units were returned to air operation before tranfer to the Northern, allegedly the poor dears couldn't cope.



Absolutely!!

]Am I correct in thinking that on the EDO '59 stock (1020-1023) this behaviour was impossible.


You are, the electric doors couldn't be held open. Sadly both units were returned to air operation before tranfer to the Northern, allegedly the poor dears couldn't cope.
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Correct me if I am wrong PP but weren't the EDO doors driven by a worm drive and not only could you not hold them open but you could not push them back either?

I have the greatest of respect for most of our Line Controllers.

I'd rather not go into details on why I chose this option on a public forum - suffice to say i'm sure other District drivers have noticed recent goings on.

You have a PM Q8.

I'll tell you a little memory about that EDO train. Me and some others had to do some sort of refresher one day (only a 1 day job) whereby we had the morning at Ealing Common depot faffing about on rolling stock. Then grub and to Manor House for a medical for all of us. Can't for the life of me remember why.

Anyway the train we caught at EC was the EDO effort and we were in a middle car. At Holborn just as the doors were closing a city gent type of person just made it through the gap but his brolly and briefcase didn't. He had for some reason hung the briefcase on the handle of his umbrella and when he shot into the car the hook of the gamp caught on the door.

He tried frantically to force the door back to no avail. So there was the briefcase held outside the train and him and the umbrella inside. Upon entering the tunnel he held desperately tightly onto the brolly but the rather fat briefcase was getting ripped to shreds with him being shaken like a cocktail on the other end. This continued for about a quarter of a minute until he was yanked violently against the door and the briefcase and gamp disappeared. He collapsed onto the floor bleeding profusely from the nose which judging from it's angle was broken.

We told the crew at the next station and he was taken off the train to await an ambulance and the station staff sanded the floor to soak up the blood. (Never knew a person could bleed so much from the nose) We went to the back car and talked to the Guard who said he had not even seen the guy as he was doing things "blind" reading a book while working. This admission was to us alone so to cover for him we gave him our names and depots and if there were any come-backs we would submit reports.

About a week later we heard that the Guard had contacted our YM and given his thanks to us and to tell us that the Guy with the brolly was in fact a top QC who had not only a broken nose but one cheekbone and collar bone as well. The briefcase had in it some very important papers relating to a government case in court which had been ruined.

Which probably explains why EDO was never introduced more widely. Not that LT would have caved in under threat of legal action or anything like that. Oh no.