Underground Gal (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} underground_gal) wrote,@ 2007-10-05 15:05:00 |
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Just Bits
I did a late at Wood Green earlier in the week; towards the end of the shift the barriers were playing up and operating very slowly for Oyster cards - of course people just kept barging into them before they'd opened. I got sick of the phrase "Stand back and wait for the orange light"! I was also amused to see the rather steady stream of people coming and checking the payphones for change that might have been left behind - it seemed like someone was in every fifteen minutes. In fact, I'm sure more people check them for left change than actually ever use them...
The rest of this week I've been at Oakwood. Unlike last week, when I was there for sunlight duties but rarely spent more than an hour to an hour and a half on the platform each day, I've been there on a "proper" duty instead. No one was assigned for sunlight. And of course I've spent most of the day down on the platform for sunlight duties.
The supervisor came downstairs today while I was chatting to someone waiting for a train, and when I gave him a slightly quizzical look, he explained that he'd just seen someone coming through the gates who tried to throw herself under a train about four months ago. He came down to make sure that she wasn't going to do it again! (Apparently she was on her way to visit her boyfriend.. who's in sheltered accomodation.)
The ticket machine at work today kept devouring banknotes so we had to have an engineer out twice for it, great fun.
Next week I'm at busier stations, so I'm quite looking forward to that - I'm also still waiting on LU for a date to start my driver training, I feel like it can't come fast enough at the moment!
I did a late at Wood Green earlier in the week; towards the end of the shift the barriers were playing up and operating very slowly for Oyster cards - of course people just kept barging into them before they'd opened. I got sick of the phrase "Stand back and wait for the orange light"! I was also amused to see the rather steady stream of people coming and checking the payphones for change that might have been left behind - it seemed like someone was in every fifteen minutes. In fact, I'm sure more people check them for left change than actually ever use them...
The rest of this week I've been at Oakwood. Unlike last week, when I was there for sunlight duties but rarely spent more than an hour to an hour and a half on the platform each day, I've been there on a "proper" duty instead. No one was assigned for sunlight. And of course I've spent most of the day down on the platform for sunlight duties.
The supervisor came downstairs today while I was chatting to someone waiting for a train, and when I gave him a slightly quizzical look, he explained that he'd just seen someone coming through the gates who tried to throw herself under a train about four months ago. He came down to make sure that she wasn't going to do it again! (Apparently she was on her way to visit her boyfriend.. who's in sheltered accomodation.)
The ticket machine at work today kept devouring banknotes so we had to have an engineer out twice for it, great fun.
Next week I'm at busier stations, so I'm quite looking forward to that - I'm also still waiting on LU for a date to start my driver training, I feel like it can't come fast enough at the moment!
