A ￡10 million training centre is giving workers the skills they need for the massive modernisation programme on the London Tube. And it aims to help overcome the national shortage of signal engineers. The modernisation of London's Underground network creeps forward at an almost imperceptible rate. Much of the work occurs in tunnels or stations during the small hours, out of sight and out of mind. It's an inexorably slow engineering process, taken for granted by the hundreds of thousands of people who use the system every day. But, although progress is often hard to see, real improvements are taking place. Reversing the effects of decades of under-investment is a huge task, requiring an injection of resources on a scale never seen before on the Underground. Tube Lines - the company responsible for improving the the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines - is spending an average of ￡1.6 million a day maintaining, renewing and upgrading track, trains, signals and stations.
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