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It's H&S at work as usual and it will continue to be more restrictive as people who are paid to do nothing except think up answers to potential issues continuing doing exactly that.

Of course the Victoria line was the first to go without 'trips' and that made life difficult for anything but Vic stock. One Engineer's train on the line meant the Engineer having to take possession of the entire line. The Possession master used to be on the end of a phone line at Finsbury Park and a quick phone call would establish where the train would be and whether it was possible to work elsewhere on the line. This process was fine and then it was decided that the intended site person in charge of unrelated work had to have a face to face meeting with the possession master, not much fun if the train is working north of Euston and you want to work in the platfrom area at Stockwell!

I could see a time in the future where only the properly approved stock subject to 24 hour maintenance checks is allowed on any given line and for all else to be excluded or be required to be so protected as to make the cost of running anything else prohibitive.