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Post by superteacher on May 22, 2024 22:45:00 GMT
What did crews tend to do between their morning and afternoon trains, particularly if they lived quite a way from their depot?
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Post by Dstock7080 on May 22, 2024 23:51:50 GMT
Crew that did split turn were generally those that could accommodate them in terms of travelling etc.
When I travelled to Morden for Motorman’s rate I was allocated a split turn but drove home to Southall and back each half.
Being lucrative money there were many volunteers to relieve you of these irritating shifts!
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Post by revupminster on May 23, 2024 6:12:13 GMT
When the lady administrator gave me a 10hr split shift sending me from Bow Road to Putney Bridge she thought she was doing me a favour instead of say the early turn. You got 2 and 1/2 hours off so could not get home living at Plaistow so I tended to walk around and come back and take the early turn off early so they were happy.
Some split shifts were worth 12hrs with 4 and 1/2 hours off so stations that had those were sort after. Booking clerks worked a 7hr36m day then it became 7h24m day.
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Post by towerman on May 23, 2024 11:31:08 GMT
Weren’t split shifts on the same part of the roster as night turns?
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Post by Dstock7080 on May 23, 2024 11:50:31 GMT
On the trainstaff side split turns were Mon-Fri with Saturday rest day. The Sunday before could also be allocated.
(Prior to Company Plan in 1992, trainstaff worked 6-day week.)
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Post by towerman on May 23, 2024 21:13:55 GMT
Most lines had the same crews doing night turns,if I remember correctly it was seven nights,Sunday rest day,4 days rest day covers,3 rest days,then back on nights.
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Post by revupminster on May 25, 2024 11:36:01 GMT
On the district line back in the day nights were worked by the same crews because they swapped duties to get them just as others swapped to get early shifts or late shifts.
I also worked as a depot clerk and adjusted the hours of crews as they changed duties. The time book was a work of art as for every black item giving a driver extra minutes there would be a red item taking it back from another driver. Same rules for guards.
Also in my day Upminster had no night turns. Barking did. Also very few stations had night staff.
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Post by towerman on May 25, 2024 11:51:31 GMT
Back in the 70s it was only the major stations that had a supervisor on nights,although the Victoria Line had three shift Station Inspectors at all stations I think.
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Post by roythebus on Jun 18, 2024 20:13:18 GMT
At PG in the early 1970s a number of "travellers" would try to swap split shifts for nights as the pay was about the same. Several times I worked with a traveller from the far east and he'd come round my place for the day and we'd sit around listening to music! But then I'd quite happily do nights. Both Upminster, Barking and Acton Town depots had nights. there was an Upminster crew that spent Christmas Eve at PG working the first train east on Christmas Day.!
ISTR we had 3 or 4 night turns and the same number of splits.
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Post by towerman on Jun 18, 2024 21:46:28 GMT
When I worked alternate days and nights at Hainault Depot Sunday to Friday nights were always the same two White City crews.Think on Saturday night it was Loughton or Leytonstone crews as the last two stablers on Saturday ran off the Epping branch then reversed at Woodford to depot via G/Hill.In the morning the first two trains out went via G/Hill.
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