Trip Cock Test Farce On The Bakerloo Line

Bakerloo line drivers were subject to what can only be described as keystone cops style of management during the first day of this weekend’s shutdown.
Seemingly making it up on the hoof, management instructed drivers to keep trains in service even when failing the trip cock tester.
Apparently the requirement for a second person in the cab was sufficient to run a safe railway.
This goes against all the basic principles we are taught when joining LUL!
Week 1 Day 1 we are told safety is paramount.
Trip cock testers are our most basic and crude method of testing if the trips on trains are working.
Light stays on. Train fails. Train out of service, with a 2nd person in cab.
Enshrined in the rule book. (1st & last trains excepted)
When we fail to carry out correct procedures, we get sacked.
Managers undertake a dynamic risk assessment, retrospectively, when they don’t.
Fairness! Consistency! Collaborative! Open! Honest!
Not a chance comrade.
Us, the workers are beaten around the head when we fail to follow procedures, the first question our managers ask is “what does the rule book say?”
They alter the rules when we ask.
We have asked for an emergency ad – hoc, denied.
We have demanded a local investigation into the events of Thursday 27 August.
Watch this space for developments.