On 16/04/2014 18:16, CJB wrote:
A Tube driver has appeared in court charged with unlawfully endangering passengers after he 'drove a train while intoxicated'.

Ian Comfort, 50, from Thamesmead, southeast London, is accused of driving a Jubilee line train while unfit through drink and drugs on March 22.

He faces two charges - one of 'working on the railway whilst unfit to carry out that work through drink or drugs' and a second charge of committing an 'unlawful act, driving a train, while unfit through drink or drugs while endangering the safety of someone being conveyed in or on that railway'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...toxicated.html

Purely out of curiosity, what is the general policy on alcohol in the cab?

For example, if one driver is on duty and driving but has not had
anything to drink, nor would he, while another driver has just come off
duty and was having one can of lager, would that be a problem?