At yesterdays Health & Safety tier 2 meeting it was agreed that on TBTC lines when working a train out of service station skip would not be used and T/Ops would manually start trains at every station.

At the present time when auto is not permitted T/Ops drive in protected manual and we maintained that this should remain the case.

Management suggested that T/Ops could have a choice to either work the train in auto or PM and we have said we will take this away and discuss with the Reps on the lines concerned.

The Central Line was also included in this and we suggested they may want to consider the option of driving manually when dealing with workers on the track or trespassers to gain a level of consistency across all lines.

Management agreed that all lines should work the same in this matter.