Recurring Characters in Tube/Railways docu-series

[Jerome H]

Evening All,

I’ve been rewatching some of the “The Tube: Going Underground” and “The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track” episodes via YouTube and I’ve just noticed that Alexis, one of the CSAs featured for the uniform fashion show, is seen working at Kings Cross mainline for East Coast Trains. Anyone know of other recurring characters in the various documentaries about the Tube?

[holborncentral]

There was a station manager called Andy H (think he worked on one of the sub surface lines?) who was in the early 2000s documentary The Tube and was also in the 2012 documentary of the same name. Then there was a driver on the Piccadilly line who was in two episodes of the 2012 documentary and he was also in the 2013 special The Tube: An Underground History (done for LU150)

[rheostar]

Sept 20, 2020 20:57:36 GMT holborncentral said:

There was a station manager called Andy H (think he worked on one of the sub surface lines?) who was in the early 2000s documentary The Tube and was also in the 2012 documentary of the same name.

Andy H was a driver and DTM on the District line. He later went to the NOC/NCC as a NOM (can't remember the original name), first at 55 Broadway and latterly in the LUCC at Palestra. He's still there now.

[holborncentral]

Sept 22, 2020 21:31:02 GMT rheostar said:

Sept 20, 2020 20:57:36 GMT holborncentral said:

There was a station manager called Andy H (think he worked on one of the sub surface lines?) who was in the early 2000s documentary The Tube and was also in the 2012 documentary of the same name.

Andy H was a driver and DTM on the District line. He later went to the NOC/NCC as a NOM (can't remember the original name), first at 55 Broadway and latterly in the LUCC at Palestra. He's still there now.

That's him. He was in the early 2000s documentary talking to another driver who'd nearly had a one under and was quite shaken by it. I didn't know he was still at LU now! So his role is more office based than operational I guess?

[Tom]

Andy had the dubious honour of having to wake me up with a phone call a few times when I was the on-call signalling manager. Always too chirpy at 3am!

Sept 20, 2020 1:09:26 GMT Jerome H said:

I’ve just noticed that Alexis, one of the CSAs featured for the uniform fashion show, is seen working at Kings Cross mainline for East Coast Trains.

It might be a coincidence, but I was always had doubts as to how authentic some of the staff featured in the Uniform fashion show were. At least one of the smiling CSAs featured in it was a former CSA who was by then working as an Assistant Project Manager.

[rheostar]

Sept 22, 2020 21:58:33 GMT holborncentral said:

That's him. He was in the early 2000s documentary talking to another driver who'd nearly had a one under and was quite shaken by it. I didn't know he was still at LU now! So his role is more office based than operational I guess?

Yep, he's control room based now. I'd speak to him several times during a shift if we were working at the same time.

[Jerome H]

Found another one: Evelyn, a Ticket Office Clerk/CSA featured at Victoria in the Going Underground series during the closure of the Ticket Office is shown in the 2003 series escorting a beggar of the train at Victoria.

[commuter]

Sept 22, 2020 21:58:33 GMT holborncentral said:

Sept 22, 2020 21:31:02 GMT rheostar said:

Andy H was a driver and DTM on the District line. He later went to the NOC/NCC as a NOM (can't remember the original name), first at 55 Broadway and latterly in the LUCC at Palestra. He's still there now.

That's him. He was in the early 2000s documentary talking to another driver who'd nearly had a one under and was quite shaken by it. I didn't know he was still at LU now! So his role is more office based than operational I guess?

Nope, still operational staff. The (Duty) Network Operations Manager role, now called Network Operations Tactical Manager is effectively the Service Manager for the L.U.C.C.

[rheostar]

Sept 30, 2020 14:14:42 GMT commuter said:

Nope, still operational staff. The (Duty) Network Operations Manager role, now called Network Operations Tactical Manager is effectively the Service Manager for the L.U.C.C.

There must be a department in LU that thinks up manager titles. I was a DOM, SCM, DLCM and lastly an SM. Did exactly the same job, just a different title dreampt up in the various reorganisations over the years.