After 10:30 pm every night, the Wuhan Metro and the light rail began to fight. After the last train and the last passenger were sent, the stations were closed one after another. At midnight, there was a group of people who had only just kicked off their work on rail transit. Some of them are night shift attendants at the station, some are electrical engineers who are responsible for the maintenance of equipment, some are train maintenance workers, and there are track patrol workers who work in underground tunnels.

From the evening to the early hours of yesterday morning, the reporter went to the Yulimen Station on the Metro Line 2 to observe the special work of this group of “nightwalkers”.

Night shift attendants "count money to be soft"

At 11:04 last night, the last bus bound for Jinyintan exited from Yulimen Station. After 3 minutes, the station staff started the station closing procedure after confirming that the last passenger was out of the station.

At 11:10, the security guard first closed the A-entry roll gate, and the on-duty stationmaster held a key and turned it clockwise to shut down the escalator to the entrance. Other entrances and exits were closed one after another.

Five minutes later, the conductor began the ticket counting process and 22 self-service ticket machines were fully opened: Each automatic ticket vending machine was equipped with seven small boxes. Coins and banknotes of different denominations were stored in five small boxes, and two other small boxes were stored separately. It is used to hold one-way tickets.

After cleaning up the 22 recycling ticket boxes at the station's 11 exit gates, all operating income from the sale of tickets on that day was transferred to the ticket office. “Cangli Gate Station needs to count about 60,000 to 70,000 yuan per day.” Tu Min, the head of the duty station, introduced that after uniform collection of coins, the staff will count the coins of different denominations and then store the face value.

The main recovery is a one-dollar coin and a small denomination note of 5 to 20 yuan. The two attendants spend more than three hours a night to inventory these zero notes. "It's really a matter of counting the amount of money." One of the attendants said with a smile.

The patrol line tunnel 4 hours walk 5 km line inspection time just after the clock, line number department line inspection line factory chief Hu Jie took the lineman, from the Yuli Gate platform to the track range, start the train stop After the transport line inspection work.

Hu Jie first used an electroscope to perform secondary inspection on the track. “If the electroscope emits a buzzing sound, it indicates that the track is still energized.” Hu Jie pointed to the yellow strip track on the left side of the tunnel. It was a 750-volt touch. The track is responsible for powering the train. The inspection work must be performed only when the contact rail is powered off.

Hu Jie, 37, is a 19-year railway patrol worker and is considered an "old" line patrol worker. The line is patrolled three or four times a week. In the early hours of the morning, she worked in the underground for nearly four hours. He walked about two kilometers through the two tunnels from Yuli Gate to Youth Road Station.

Hu Jie said that he and the lineman were two people on the road, and there were 10 teams on the 2nd line. The inspection line mainly inspects the rails, track beds, and turnouts, as well as whether the tunnel emergency evacuation platform is broken or damaged and the signal equipment is operating normally. If it is found that the parts are loose, the missing or broken parts must be promptly replaced.

The reporter noted that as long as a single-toe elastic bar (parts of fixed rails) is found to be loose, Hu Jie will hammer and pound it with a hammer. "This is judged by naked eyes and experience." Hu Jie said that he and his colleagues have to inspect nearly 30,000 single toe bullets in 4 hours. The work is extremely monotonous and boring.

When carrying out work, he must carry a 20-pound tool kit and wear a lot of special leather shoes. After each inspection, he will sweat out. Hu Jie said that especially in winter, clothes are thick, sweaty clothes are very difficult to be affected by the body, and when they get out of the station, they feel particularly cold and it is easy to catch a cold.

“We can't affect the safety of trains because of our missed checks or mistakes.” Talking about the feelings of the job, Hu Jie said that although it is very hard, but as long as the safety of thousands of passengers travels, it will feel heavy. Responsibility.

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