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Old December 28th 11, 06:57 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Charles Ellson Charles Ellson is offline
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Default Fluffers - still employed?

On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:58:17 -0800 (PST), SB
wrote:

Just seen a short clip on BBC 4 in the Dark series of archival clips
on Tuesday evening (23.55). Are 'fluffers' still employed to clean the
London Underground tracks? SB

They've got a giant yellow vacuum cleaner now :-
http://www.trainweb.org/districtdave...rs_trains.html

More stubborn debris presumably still gets human intervention but not
so often.