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"I was lost in my little own planet" is something that you NEVER want to hear from who's driving your train or your bus or flying your plane. Anyone can make mistakes but, no offence meant, the way she dealt with it afterwards, the "so I was distracted, so what, no one died" attitude makes me think she was picked for the wrong job.

“I used to be a bus driver, if you hit cars it’s part of the job”. Takes the same approach with trains then I see.

Miranda is dreadful. Made two dangerous mistakes in as many years, held up a load of people, and just responded with "we're not robots, everyone makes mistakes". Terrible attitude on her.

I'm a pilot, I sometimes crash the plane but that's part of the job

"I'm a teacher. Sometimes you hit the kids...its part of the job." On planet Miranda.

Miranda needs an attitude adjustment and to stop being so defensive. Accept you made a dangerous mistake, apologize and stress that you will do your utmost to make sure it doesn't happen again. You, my dear, are an extremely unpleasant person. I'm really surprised you were hired. Someone made a big mistake.

Driver Matilda seemed to act like a petulant child when her manager expressed the importance of abiding signals after her spad.

Wow. Just wow. It wasn't even a case of accidentally missing a signal, she outright forgot to check the signals before driving off. She can't even argue that wasn't completely avoidable.

"I'm a prison guard, sometimes I let criminals escape but thats part of the job"

That driver who passed the signals attitude annoys me much more than the mistake she made..

Passing a stop signal is a fireable offense in US and is an automatic decertification on our railroads lol. I'm in training right now for a major north east railroad and even if you just graduated the class and run a stop signal, they have no remorse. You're out of service or fired depending on how bad you messed up and you're definitely fired if it happens again wether you breached it by an inch or a mile.

That woman driver Joe turned red as an ripe apple when she called her brother to tell him she passed the drivers test, I can tell under it all she is a sweet girl and this embarrassed her a bit. I have a feeling she was a tough cookie at one time in her life and things like praise makes her feel uneasy because she hasn't had enough of it grown up. Maybe I'm wrong but that's my read on her,,, Great job Joe, Congratulations

I drive a fuel tanker for a living and it can be a very cut throat industry, one small error can easily cost me my job. To think this person ran a red signal and then give a load of attitude AND not severely penalised is crazy.

Definitely safer to drive into London when there's train and bus drivers like this "you hit cars, it's part of the job" and "so what, no one died" WTF?!

Thats really concerning with the lack of responsibility for the SPAD. Yes people make mistakes, but also safety systems do fail as well, you can't just say 'oh its ok if the trigger gets hit the brakes automatically apply' thats how complacency leads to one of those 'one in a million' fatal crashes, the emergency brakes should be used as a last resort not as an oops it happens thing.

The driver who SPAD certainly didn't feel me with confidence with that attitude. If I see her approaching my train, I will happily wait for the next one.

21:52. Jo certainly polished up her PA voice for that announcement!

She should have been fired for that, that was ridiculous.

"I'm a boat driver, we usually smash into each other but that's just part of the job"

I really hope Miranda is no longer a train driver. Awful attitude. People can get killed because of a SPAD. Unbelievable!!

Maranda should be sacked. What a shocking attitude

"You hit cars, it's part of the job" Jesus, never let this women drive in public transport again.

“I used to be a bus driver. Hitting cars is part of the job” 🤦🏽‍♀️

16:09 "A lot of the operators have now seen it half-a-dozen times. At least." WHAT!? Seriously? More than two signal violations should be a permanent employment termination.

Totally shocked about the woman's attitude when she passed a stop light. So as a train driver you have people's lives in your hand, so not paying attention when at the helm of a train, is not a situation where you go "Oh well I am human and make mistake" imagine if her gastric bypass surgeon said "I'll do my best not to kill you but I am only human and mistakes happen" bloody want to avoid her train. Is there any way of finding out the train driver's name?

Most railway companies you get fired after causing a SPAD, no argues they say. Beside that she was interupting her instructeur with "I am not a robot". A bit strange reaction. Good luck with her.

"Positive is the salary, negative are these problems" or in simpler words i like the money i dont really care about trains or bothered to learn about them a lot just enough for anjob and passing red is not that big of a danger as the emergency breaks will just kick in:) hope shes no longer employed by tfl jheez.

This channel is very underrated! Enjoy every single video you upload thoroughly :)

I know from Dutch train drivers, that if they pass 2 times a red light, they are fired. This lady should be fired, not suitable for the job.

I wouldn't had allowed Miranda to keep driving

Great to see another episode, and unfortunately one about how easy it is to have a small lapse in focus that triggers something far larger!

The SPAD driver attitude is disgusting

She made the classic error that we’re all warned about - hearing the points thrown and not checking the signal before winding up. Her attitude is terrible

Do wonder how many times the reason for a delay is given as signal failure when it actually was the result of a serious driver error.

Visited London in March/April 2018, and used the Tube extensively. I was impressed with its infrastructure and the skill of its drivers.

“Each Spad is taken seriously...” Mainline driver can look forward to at least 2/3 months suspended (sometimes even longer) with endless interviews and red tape. Former tube driver told me they knew someone who’d had a Spad in the morning and was back out driving in the afternoon. Miranda needs to thank her lucky stars she isn’t a mainline driver otherwise 2 spades in 2 years means that, if she’s lucky, she’d be confined to depot work with 80% pay. Either that or down the road for good...

Jo Drummend has certainly showed what she is made off and proved that she can be great driver, 100/100 for her!

Goes to show that safety equipment builds complacency. The one that ran the red signal doesn't even seem to care. Anyone that says they "zoned out" shouldn't be operating a vehicle with passengers. Any vehicle.

That woman is lucky. Pass a red here in the U.S. you immediately get terminated. If you live, that is...

4:00 Remember back in the days in which everyone had a book, the newspaper, a magazine, etc. on the train? Nostalgia...

All of this could be easilyavoided by following this golden rule: Signal, Platform, Signal, Action. In another word, check the signal aspect first, attend the platform duty and close the door, check the signal again before taking power.

She said she went into auto pilot. Surely that means she does all the correct checks including the light

This was recorded quite a while ago, the district line trains have changed and the interior of the northern line has also changed, still interesting to see more on what it's like to be a driver on the underground!

As a Driver I can say it is not part of the job... It's a mistake, A error on her part. Just own it.

Belated Congratulations 😀 to Jo for passing her test..

Jo Drummend is one driver I would like to work with....she seems very professional....the other lady, um yeah....she should be suspended.....

1:41 imagine he dropped them keys down onto the track throught the gap

No excuses, I have been driving light rail for quite some time now, never hit any pedestrians or vehicles, never had any SPADs, it’s really not hard, it’s not anyone else’s fault if you can’t pay attention.

Words you don't want to hear from your driver after going through a red light: "I was in little planet Miranda", "I didn't really check the signal"

Very interesting documentary love stuff like this,

Whose train would you rather catch, Jo's on "Sweat Day" or Miranda's with two year's of experience?

Spad’s are way more common than many people think. With more lines going automatic, it will be a thing of the past

I’m from New York and never been to London nor am I making plans to go Why am I so hooked on these videos???

So happy for Jo, can't believe she has been in the job now for 21 years

The spad vid was so dramatic

At 0:26 that isn't someone I'd ever want to come in contact with let alone have thousands of lives at risk. She is a real piece of work. How could someone that young be so nasty. Companies that have people lives at stake should never hire people under twenty five as it has been determined that the human frontal cortex is not completely developed that that is why young adults take risk. They never believe anything will ever happen to them.

It was good to hear that the investigation was trying to work out what happened with the SPAD. Only by understanding the “why” and seeing it from the driver’s point of view can an safe system be created. Wielding a safety cosh and disciplinary measures creates a very unsafe system that will kill people.

I was waiting for this video

Her attitude omggg couldnt stand that...

sir topham hat was angry with the driver you have caused confusion and delay!

I love public transit! It’s always been my life

Favorite show!

Now northern line trains are automatic, but they still have drivers.

18.55.. 'you wont do that again will you Miranda' .... silence. She could not care less regardless. She is a liability.

Nah I only clicked cos the thumbnail had me creasing 😂

I'm not sure that you meant this to be a comedy.... Hilarious. TY

22:12 thats a Bakerloo line train coming out of South Kenton, not the Northern line train she's driving

she had a real immature unprofessional attitude.

12:37 Still haven't cleaned off the Tox from last year!

I’m an ex bus driver and hitting cars is certainly not part of the job. Her stupid statement makes all good bus and coach drivers out there seem like total idiots. Her so what attitude to the SPAD in my opinion is shocking and frightening .

"Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies only glow."

Go on, Jo!

miranda is acting like a chil, how can they still employer her when she's got a attitute like that. I know for sure that i wouldn't want her as my train driver.

Because of the responsibility for the safety of up to 1,000 passengers, there's no place for a second-rate driver. I'm sure that they were under pressure to hire more women drivers, but they should hire only fully qualified ones with the right attitude. Apparently the job pays well, and it should, so there should be enough candidates, and if most of them are men that's the way it will have to be. This is definitely the wrong job for Miranda!

I ended up a road trainer before i resigned ..used to drive the sleet loco at night on the open section at night pure Westinghouse brake and hand worked window wiper ....

Compare this to the Alertness and Diligence of the Japanese train operators. I would be *terrified* to board a train in UK after seeing this.

the Jerome Doyle in this episode used to be an assistant leader at an explorer scout unit in the eves, that i was a member of!

theirs another channel showing this show but yours is in far higher quality

Miranda used to drive Buses, wonder if they fired her for driving through Red lights.

Why do they select underachievers for such an important job! At least have the right attitude and mindset.

People watching a program about public transport are pretty much guaranteed to have a positive opinion on it

I hated that whales attitude about her fault. She should actually have felt sorry, but saying that hitting cars as a bus driver is okay, is not what a person handling so many human lives should be saying.

Jo is adorable

Excellent drive train

I know this is from 2002 but I had to do a double-take when the SPAD training video was a VHS!

Hmmm thanks for the confidence to London Underground

Back in the USSR, SPAD was considered a major crime after which one you'll go to jail, and after that you can never be a train driver again. Today... well it's the same, except for jail part, you just get fired straight away... Though on bright side it's really hard to do a SPAD cause train gets tripped at signal before the red one (we have green > green and yellow > two yellows > one yellow > red and yellow (where train gets tripped) > red (after which one you go to jail :D )) So only way to pass a red signal is to override train signaling systems, which obviously is not allowed. So in Russia Miranda probably still would've worked here without any questions asked... unfortunately... (Even though passing red and yellow is not really an end of the world, you reset train yourself and continue driving after signal opens, it would be suspicious if she passed it multiple times in a row, so she's probably would've been transferred to a cleaning stuff...) P.S. god, even her face looks like "pfft i don't care, fuck off... i guess..."

She has learning difficulties....now works for ATC at Heathrow....

In NYC, there is no concept of smooth breaking

Miranda doesnt seem to grasp the seriousness of her mistake...yeah thank god for those automatic stops

Blobby McSweat-a-lot.......Second time passed a red light, why not try for number three love, and this time whack it into anothertrain just to be sure.

YES ! Moustache station manager is up next time!

The tox tag is everywhere

Its definitely part of the job to pass red signals and as a bus driver hit cars, when I have never seen that. She just should accept the mistake that she passed the signal at red, you never see a bus driver hit a car 24/7 so it's ridiculous for her to make that comment.

*I hope to explore the whole tube network when I eventually go to England*

That SPAD video was pretty terrifying

At the beggining ,thats not Golders Green tunnels---they have a third shunting neck on the left.

Is this real or staged? I'm a train driver in Germany and Icould not imagine that a driver gives an interview to a camera crew after a SPAD. I think you would not even be allowed to show it online because of data privacy.

They seem such nice people to work for. I would have loved a job like that