Tube Strike (Was: [ANNOUNCE] [SOCIAL] Social at Dirty Dicks, Thursday 6th September)

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:28:05PM +0100, Smylers wrote:

> This article says it's Metronet staff who'll be striking:
>   http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/07c2f372-57ef-11dc-8c65-0000779fd2ac.html
> 
> Metronet are/were responsible for Tube maintenance work (which I'd taken
> to mean the Tube equivalent of roadworks), not driving trains.

Maintenance includes daily inspections of track, signalling and power
systems, safety equipment in stations, etc.

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