CHARLEY MONROE PROFILE
Dec 02, 2019
4 minutes
INSTRUCTOR SERVICE OPERATOR LEVEL 3
■ Number of years as a signaller: 2½
■ Number of years worked at Edgware Road: 1½
Functions both as an operator and an instructor, training people in the signalbox. Previously also operated the Hammersmith Cabin, with a similar frame, which ceased working on March 16, after 68 years of operation. Since the Edgware Road closure, Charley has moved to Harrow-on-the-Hill, which is expected to remain open for the next couple of years. this long-lived system but pragmatic about the necessity of moving on to newer technologies, describing the conventional system as ‘creaking’ under the strain of running more trains than it was ever designed to cope with.
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