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Post by brigham on Oct 13, 2015 15:48:59 GMT
Is there a concise list of surviving MET rolling stock anywhere? I know of some Bogie Stock, and a handful of Dreadnoughts, but there clearly is more, either running or in 'garden shed' form.
What about pre-electric District stock? Surely something must survive?
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Post by tjw on Oct 13, 2015 21:02:49 GMT
Try this, www.vintagecarriagestrust.org/surveystatus.aspYou will have to try both the EMU list (scroll down for Met stock), the carriage register can be searched to give a list of Met stock as well. My search for District stock only came up with 2 examples... |
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Post by brigham on Oct 14, 2015 15:46:57 GMT
Excellent, thanks. Includes the known beach-huts &c. as well.
It's a cold world for District loco-hauled stock, isn't it? Presumably because of the complete abandonment of steam all at once. Might have to make do with building some!
There appears to be a Beyer-Peacock loco (No. 35) unaccounted for. I wonder where that is.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Oct 14, 2015 16:17:03 GMT
It's a cold world for District loco-hauled stock, isn't it? Presumably because of the complete abandonment of steam all at once. More to do with how recent, I would guess. The Met was running loco-hauled stock right up to 1960, fifty years after the last District Railway hauled stock was withdrawn (or rather converted to emu) in 1910 It is not clear from the source I am reading from, but as I understand it the MDR's electric locos were originally built for through LNWR "Outer Circle" services in 1905, but became redundant when those services were cut back to Earls Court in 1908. (Through services from Earls Court to Broad Street ceased when the section to Willesden was electrified in 1914, although the rest of the Outer Circle route to Broad Street was electrified in 1916). It appears that after 1908 the MDR made extempore use of the electric locos on its own services, running with trailers from the B-stock fleet. These trailers were therefore the very last MDR-owned loco-hauled coaches. When the locos were required for the through LTS trains were introduced in 1910, these trailers would have been reabsorbed into the main B-stock pool. The electric locomotives continued in use, hauling LTSR stock over District metals, until the demise of the through services in 1939. |
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Post by brigham on Oct 15, 2015 16:33:13 GMT
There's what looks a bit like a District Driving Motor in the cliffhanger at the end of part 3 of 'Murder Must Advertise', the BBC adaptation of the Lord Peter Wimsey novel. It appears to be shot on location at South Kensington station, but carries both 'Inner Circle' and 'Earl's Court' headboards, along with side buffers and chain.
Whatever it is, it was around in 1973. Any ideas?
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Post by grahamhewett on Oct 15, 2015 21:45:16 GMT
norbitonflyer - interesting - is it recorded anywhere how the MDR locos were attached/detached from their Outer Circle trains? At Earls Court, presumably but I wasn't aware that there was a refuge siding for locos. [Must have been a slick operation if it wasn't allowed to hold up the regular services]
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Post by norbitonflyer on Oct 15, 2015 22:17:21 GMT
The service ceased three and a half years after electrification - the operating difficulties may have contributed to its demise.
When was the layout changed to its present arrangement? (with the diveunders)
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Post by Dstock7080 on Oct 16, 2015 4:12:50 GMT
When was the layout changed to its present arrangement? (with the diveunders) The flyunders and platform alterations were around 1913/14. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Oct 16, 2015 11:35:14 GMT
What was the layout before - and specifically in 1905-8, when loco changes were happening?
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Post by abe on Oct 29, 2015 20:40:28 GMT
When was the layout changed to its present arrangement? (with the diveunders) The flyunders and platform alterations were around 1913/14. The west end flyover (from the Wimbledon branch) was commissioned in January 1914. The flyunder (from the High St Kensington line) opened in 1878, around the same time as the new Earl's Court station. |
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