Man becomes first tube driver with colour-blind condition

Alex Bulley was devastated when he found out he wouldn't be able to become a train driver due to an inability to detect red and green signals. Thanks to changes to TfL technology and extensive support from his brother, his dream has come true

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Alannah Francis

DRIVING TRAINS had been 26-year-old Alex Bulley’s dream but a shock diagnosis of colour vision deficiency almost meant it never came true.

But thanks to his supportive elder brother, a train driver himself, and TfL train operations manager Joe Brown, Bulley has become the first driver with his condition to pilot a tube train anywhere in the world.

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