Watching the Tube
They’re showing how they vacuum out the tube tunnels. Strangely, a few years ago those that did this job were women, now they are men. Can there be many jobs these days, where men have taken over from women?
Soon these men will be succeeded by a new Tunnel Cleaning Train made up of two old Victoria line power cars, with some carriages turned into a giant vacuum cleaner in between.
It was strange too, that the two aerial cleaners, who did the roof at Canary Wharf came from Suffolk. Strange as there aren’t many mountains in that part of England to practise on.
They called these women “fluffers”, somehow I feel their male replacements wouldn’t like this.
Comment by peter hoskins | March 27, 2012 |
They didn’t seem to mind and were still called fluffers, as that is what they do!
Comment by AnonW | March 27, 2012 |