1000 jobs down the tubes

[BoredBloke]

After qualifying to drive a train, they do need to be certified for each route they drive.

How hard can that be - those metal lines stretching off into the distance in front give you a pretty good indication as to where you are going. Stations and platforms I would expect are pretty easy to differentiate from the usual stuff you see next to train tracks. I suppose the skill is knowing which signals it's possible to pass on red without getting the sack.

[swamp]

That was amazing. You knowledge of trains is fantastic.

Do astronauts steer rockets?

Yes.

This is also why TFL train drivers can't pilot space shuttles or moon landers.

HTH

[Manic]

Usually the good ones go and you're left with the dross.

I'm still here at TfL

Anyway this was announced before Xmas, just so happens they are insourcing at the moment so how they plan to cut 1000 is beyond me. maybe they'll just get everyone to work a bit!!

[ace00]

... The skill is stopping the train where it's meant to be stopped while reading the paper and shotgunning a can of super-cider.

[PRC1964]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...ube-job-losses

London Underground, a TfL subsidiary, said no tube drivers or frontline staff would be affected by the cuts, which it hopes to achieve through a hiring freeze or dropping contract workers.

Don't panic, they're creating 7,000 new jobs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7858472.stm

... Oh, wrong kind of subway.

[DimPrawn]

Train 'drivers' don't really drive the train in the way that we might drive cars or boats. Trains don't have steering wheels so you can only go forwards and backwards. If you end up in Manchester it's because you drove your train forwards (or backwards) too far and got unlucky. The skill is stopping the train where it's meant to be stopped and not reading the paper.

That was amazing. You knowledge of trains is fantastic.

Do astronauts steer rockets?

[expat]

Do train drivers have to do their own version of The Knowledge, like taxi drivers?

If a taxi driver goes to Picadilly station in Manchester instead of London that's one p1ssed-off punter. But if a train driver did it that's a few hundred. And some might be doctors and nurses, who would be hours late for vital operations and lots of children would die.

I think Bob Crow is right, we can't afford to lose that expertise.

After qualifying to drive a train, they do need to be certified for each route they drive.

[swamp]

Do train drivers have to do their own version of The Knowledge, like taxi drivers?

If a taxi driver goes to Picadilly station in Manchester instead of London that's one p1ssed-off punter. But if a train driver did it that's a few hundred. And some might be doctors and nurses, who would be hours late for vital operations and lots of children would die.

I think Bob Crow is right, we can't afford to lose that expertise.

Train 'drivers' don't really drive the train in the way that we might drive cars or boats. Trains don't have steering wheels so you can only go forwards and backwards. If you end up in Manchester it's because you drove your train forwards (or backwards) too far and got unlucky. The skill is stopping the train where it's meant to be stopped and not reading the paper.

[Doggy Styles]

Do train drivers have to do their own version of The Knowledge, like taxi drivers?

If a taxi driver goes to Picadilly station in Manchester instead of London that's one p1ssed-off punter. But if a train driver did it that's a few hundred. And some might be doctors and nurses, who would be hours late for vital operations and lots of children would die.

I think Bob Crow is right, we can't afford to lose that expertise.

[swamp]

Usually the good ones go and you're left with the dross.

[Moscow Mule]

If they sack anyone there will be industrial action.

If they run out of free tea bags there'll be industrial action.

($&%*£^*%@*%&$^%*$^% Bob Crow.

[BrilloPad]

If they sack anyone there will be industrial action.

[DimPrawn]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...ube-job-losses

London Underground, a TfL subsidiary, said no tube drivers or frontline staff would be affected by the cuts, which it hopes to achieve through a hiring freeze or dropping contract workers.