92ts overhaul due?

If I recall correctly the Duct Tape was supplied by 3M and Modern Railways magazine reported that it would not discolour for something like 20 years, maybe they meant days!

This tape makes the 92's look dirty is almost a joke and bad for PR as well.

Xerces Fobe

Has to be said they look awful. The vandalism makes it worse. I'd string up whoever was responsible for using paint stripper on them. It's heartbreaking to see the damage. Find out who's responsible, take em to court, fine em BIG time and send the bailiffs 'round if they can't pay in cash, then bang em up in solitary for life........................................Still the depots could do a temporary patch up. Wire wool the damage, get some masking tape and spray the best match possible until a full re paint can be done. It wouldn't look great, though it wouldn't cost a lot, but they'd still look far better than the eyesores going up and down at present.

This just adds to the pitiful state of the 92 stock.

Xerces Fobe

Oh good that is much better than that dirty red stuff!

Although already said, what a great impression foreigners will no doubt be left with for the olympics.

Pity they were smallest initial cost, could have been so much better.

The most depressing thing I've seen, there's one car I get on (I wish I could remember the number!) that's had something scratched into it for a few years now. The lovely person who decided that defacing the train did, rather nicely, though, etch the year in... "1994" or so it claims. (Of course, that's what you get when you always sit in the same car.. I like familiarity!)

I think I heard somewhere, that in Rome they consider graffiti artistic and expressionist, and always leave it.

Each to their own I suppose.

Sounds more likely Alex! I'm interested to discover what can be done about the spliting sections on the 92s. The D stock has suffered a similar problem where an arrow shaped plate was added near the cab. I guess the 92s would look like something out of Mad Max!

Several months ago I just thought people were ever so slightly exaggerating about the front DM displays, but having recently travelling on the Central line, I can certainly agree with you all. The condition of the front displays are quite bad now and on many trains you cannot even make out the destination.

I do that with the buses!

The 92ts was the first stock to have the electronic displays and it shows. They should be replaced on overhaul.

I really like Paul Moss's book 'Underground Movement'. There are a few concept trains and refurb mock ups that never were. It would be interesting to see what people could come up with for a simple and relatively cheap refurb......

Weren't the original destination display and set numbers similar to the effect on an LCD watch? Certain I've seen this before but was a long time ago now.........

I think it was the sunlight that broke down the LCDs. They didn't last long at all. In between them and the current displays we had a flipchart of destination cards which were far better than the LCDs and the LEDs of today. That cards sat at the bottom of the M door in a vertical metal tray.

Cab end looks sweet.

On the 2nd picture it looks like there are no join lines near the top of the door compared to the car on the left. On closer inspection it's been painted over possibly?

Why replace the door buttons? Was it easier to polish the button part and put it back then remove it and fill in the gap?

Bit of a hypothetical here...

If Acton works was still the major works for the entire underground and hadn't been run down, is it likely that the 92ts would appear in much better condition than now?