The District Line Stores Train.

I've got some note on stores paths in WTTs of that era.....

Give me a while to dig them out - probably sometime early next week, if that's alright with you.

This shall be added to as I work towards 1963, so best to wait until about 18.30 which should give me enough time to work through the pile. All times pm, unless enumerated. italic generally means a runs if required, but typographical analysis can be confusing - eg 108 SE originating at Man. Hse. with no prior path apart from RR ex Cromwell Dt., but RR next to the train number does indicate that the whole column is RR.

District and Piccadilly No 17 (28/11/38)
Saturdays Excepted
Westbound.
TuO ex Acton; 2.26 ex Acton Town, Uxbridge arr 2.59
108 RR ex EHam; 10.40 ex EH, Ealing Common Dt arr 11.35

Eastbound.
TuO ex Uxb; 1.2 ex Uxb, Acton Town arr 1.34
108 ex AT Dt; 7.58 ex AT, 8.11 arr Earls Ct (RR to Cromwell Dt arr 8.15)
108 RR ex Crom Dt; 8.27 ex CD, 8.43½ ex Mansion House, 9.7 arr East Ham

Saturdays Only
None booked.

There seems to be quite a paucity of Stores moves in this WTT above, however I shall have a look in nearby WTTs. Uxbridge Stores have an 'M' in the column header galley note, which makes me think that these were formed from Met. stock.

District and Piccadilly No 18 (1/5/39)
Saturdays Excepted
Westbound.
TuO ex Acton; 2.26 ex Acton Town, Uxbridge arr 2.59
108 RR ex EHam; 10.40 ex EH, Ealing Common Dt arr 11.35

Eastbound.
TuO ex Uxb; 1.2 ex Uxb, Acton Town arr 1.34
108 ex AT Dt; 7.58 ex AT, 8.11 arr Earls Ct (RR to Cromwell Dt arr 8.15)
108 RR ex Crom Dt; 8.27 ex CD, 8.43½ ex Mansion House, 9.7 arr East Ham

So, in this pair of WTTs there are very few specifically Stores paths; I've not included the transfer trips between Acton Works and the Met. depots or the changeover turns for the Bakerloo via Willesden, Piccadilly Ety to Acton Works RR or Northern via Kings Cross for obvious reasons! ;D
Time to jump forward a bit.

District and Piccadilly No 47 (6/5/46) (last District with old non-stop codes) as revised 1/7/46 and 15/7/46
Saturdays Excepted
Westbound.
Ballast 6.2am RR ex Lillie Bridge, 6.4am West Kensington, 6.38am arr Rayners Lane Yard
Ballast 6.13am ex ECt, arr Lillie Bridge 6.15am
*** ex Acton Works to Acton Dt 6.30am
*** ex Acton Wks to Acton Dt 11.24am (not Stores, changeover - see 7.52)
RR ex EHDt; 1.24 ex EH, 2.16½ arr AT to Dt
7.52 ex Acton Works, 8.0 AT, to ATDt arrive 8.2 this is not RR


MO ballasts ex Queens Park not included

Eastbound.
RR 10.47am ex ATDt; 10.47am AT, 11.7am arr CromDt
RR 11.25am ex CromDt; 11.29½ South Ken, 12.6 arr East Ham to Dt

Saturdays Only
Westbound.
Ballast 6.2 ex Lillie Br. as above
Ballast RR ex Lillie Br.11.20 to Willesden via ECt. Jcn
No other stores paths shewn.

MO ballasts ex Queens Park and Central Line stock not included (in addition to the exclusions above). I've put the ballasts in so you can see how the stores train fits in. I thought *** were Stores trains, but they seem to be paths ex Acton Works for overhauled stock, rather than Stores. Goodness alone knows what happened to Weekday night ballasts, they don't exist on the galley at all.

District and Piccadilly No 53 6/10/47
Saturdays Excepted
Westbound.
RR 1.24 ex East Ham; arr Acton Town 2.16
RR 7.52 ex Acton Works to Acton Town Dt arr 8.2

Eastbound.
RR ex ATDt 10.47am; 10.49am AT, arr CromDt 11.7am
RR ex CromDt 11.25am; 11.28½am South Ken, E Han arr 12.6

Saturdays Only
None scheduled.

District and Piccadilly No 76 (1/4/57)[/i], interestingly, some of the Central ECS moves are shewn as CL Stores in this galley. There are also a few more ballasts during the lunch slack - including a booked one all the way from Upminster at 2.42 - can't see that happening these days!
Mondays - Fridays
Westbound.
RR 1.24 ex E Ham, arr AT 2.17 to Dt
RR 7.52 ex Acton Works; Acton Town 8.0½ to ATDt 8.3
Eastbound.
RR 11.10am ex ATDt; 11.12am AT, E Ham arr 12.6

77 (28/7/57), 78 (9/6/58)[/i] same.

They seem to have been recast in 79 (1/12/58), I shall have a pause for lunch and a further peruse.

The East Ham depot was rebuilt as the LTS electrified depot around 1958. The District Line transferring to the newly built Upminster depot.

Jumping forward by several years and skipping lots of WTTs, I've just had a quick browse through WTT 91 (17/10/66), which is useful for a number of reasons - this particular copy of the WTT is hardbound (and somewhat easier to handle) and was formerly in the hands of the Piccadilly Line Controller so the additions, corrections and notes about 'push-in' trains are much more comprehensive than the previous decade or so.

I think, now, after quite a bit of enjoyable 'digging' there was not a booked 'Stores Train' from Acton Works to Upminster after the depot there opened, there were however a lot more 'changeover paths' of stock running Ety between depots, plus trial trips Acton - Ealing Broadway - Ealing Common and transfer trips tended to be booked via the Ealing end of Ealing Common in later years. By 1967 there was only one dedicated 'Stores Train' running east from Acton Works to Ealing Common only.

However, there are a lot of interesting posers that have been brought to light from looking at this period - perhaps I shall revisit the subject in a few months.

The reason for running the transfer trips to Ealing Common Depot via Ealing Broadway was because the connection between the WB Picc platform at Acton Town and the depot was taken out when the area was resignalled for programme machine working ca. 1967. You couldn't get into Ealing Common from the east end any more. This was also the end of the District Acton Town destination.