I'm just back from a whistle stop tour of the tube dispute, as it were. Rumours that the Circle Line has already downed tools - something I experienced myself - can be dismissed. TfL assures me that they're replacing knackered track, but I won't make much difference unless something pretty clever happens at the Euston office of Acas rather sharpish.
I didn't know about the Acas talks until I arrived at Windsor House - TfL HQ in Victoria Street - at 11.30 to interview Peter Hendy. A bit of that interview is now live on the network front along with reports by Helene and Maev Kennedy. My plan when I'd set off was to dash straight off to the RMT's office after the Hendy interview and ask Bob Crow pretty much the same questions, but that had to be blown out because Crow is at the Acas talks. No smoke signals have yet been emitted, according to my sources. Four hours, 20 minutes and counting...
