Metropolitan line invades Ruslip Depot

NNice pics... anyone know why the Met trains were there ?

And wow, Ruislip depot is big huh !!

The signalling works at Uxbridge this weekend requires the sidings there to be clear of trains.

Also, anyone want to comment on the LED vs canvas blind issue here?

Test Train Operators.

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If LED displays are big enough, like the one on this bus, they are better than blinds, but small ones are much harder to see, and you can't fit a big display on the front of tube stock, so buses should have LED displays, and trains should use blinds (although the displays on DLR trains are quite clear, so maybe the 92TS could have better LED displays).

Destination blinds aren't practical on modern or refurbished stock. The 95s, 96s and D stocks destinations are shown on both ends of the train and is tied into the DVA and internal displays, this isn't possible with roller blinds.

I would imagine motorised blinds are more failure prone than LEDs, (the DLR got rid of them a few years back) on a six car train you will have at least one inside each car and one on each end of the train, lot's there to go wrong.

The lettering on D Stock destination LEDs is smaller than that on the roller blinds they replaced so are less visible to those with partial-sight, yet no doubt LU 'spin' would argue they are an improvement (because everything new always is better, even if it means less seats, more people standing etc). The advantage is that rear screens can be changed en-route now, something which hadn't been possible after the demise of Guards. Pity that technology hadn't developed far enough when the C Stock were refurbed, given the future Circle Line changes.

But the blinds will need changing more frequently than the driver changes ends.
From Hammersmith the destination need to point to a destination somewhere between Baker Street and Aldgate, from Edgware Road the destination needs be to be Circle Line, from South or High Street Kensington it needs to say Edgware Road.
It can't just say "Circle Line" as at Edgware Road a train saying "Circle Line" could be going to Hammersmith direct, Hammersmith via Tower Hill and Edgware Raod or Edgware Road via Tower Hill.
And this is excluding all the times the train gets diverted or curtailed.

I've seen pictures of the A stock alongside 92s on EBay. I wonder if the setting for these pics was Ruislip depot?

Ebay?
The pics you saw were most probably 95s alongside A60s in Neasden depot, which is a regular sight.

Yeah, I know, I don't know why I typed in 95s.

The A Stock at Ruislip Depot i believe it is going to Wales for Scrapping/crushing ,the first of many, sorry lads

The only unit of A stock that has been withdrawn (apart from a few that were scrapped years ago) is 5172-6172-6173-5173, and it's at Neasden.