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Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

Safety alert over 'unacceptable' shortage of fully trained Tube station staff

A Tube union has issued a safety alert about an “unacceptable” shortage of fully trained station staff in the wake of a major incident on the Northern line.

Hundreds of passengers “turned to desperate measures” to flee a stalled train at Clapham Common station in May last year when it began to fill with smoke.

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