S stock delivery & introduction - discussion

Why does 21301/02 have one grey DMI when all the others are black (it's the one on the west end of the train when on the upper circle)?

21363/364 was in service on the District last week.

I want to know as well, also there has been two deliveries this week.

I've just been at bow road and the last three sets of doors haven't opened, it that because the driver didn't park in the right place?

That will always happen at Baker Street because the platforms are too short for the train and so they SDO is in use. At Bow Road (correct me if I'm wrong) but the platform is long enough for all the doors to open, so normally the do all open. The situation spinba11 describes sounds like the driver missed the stopping mark, and so in order to get a door release, they had to use the emergency (I think) door open, which cuts out the front 3 and rear 3 doors, without notice. The T/Op should probably leave a bit longer for passengers to disembark from the cars without any open doors, but sometimes they don't.

Domh245 already mentioned in his post the reason.

Yes, an announcement should normally be made.

There was this one time when i was on the 'S7' on the Circle, where the driver had to reverse a little bit.

Six trips on the H&C over the past few days and all were on C Stock. There was plenty of S Stock in evidence, though.

Waiting at Victoria for a Hammersmith train there were two S Stocks in succession. The first was marked Circle Line, the second, something I don't ever recollect seeing at Victoria was shown on the describer as 'Parson's Green'.

T753 has been running empty to Parsons Green [from Earl's Court] recently

It'll probably show up as Earl's Court on the Dot Matrix

Popped out today to day a survey of S stock on the Circle and H&C.

On the Circle S stock was observed on T/n 200/201/202/203/205/206/207/210/214 and 216
That's a total of 10. There were 5 trains formed of C stock and I didn't wait for T/n 260

On the H&C T/n 230-236 and 241-245 were S stock.
237 was C stock, 240 didn't show and the 700 pm working to/from Moorgate was carrying T/n 261 and was formed of S stock

Also T/n 753 was running with S stock 21341/2

Recently delivered S7s 21363/4 to 21375/6 were seen in service amongst the above.

No problem.

Circle  S7=10, C=6, Not seen 1,T/n 260
H&C    S7=13*, C=1, Not seen 1.
* This assumes that T/n
700 masqurading as 261, seen at Barbican, actually worked T/n 261 later.

The three character numbers are the train numbers, These are clearly exhibited on the front and rear of the train in the centre door on C stock. On the S stock the appear in roughly the same position but above the centre door. These numbers are featured throught LUL Working timetables which are available 'on line'.

HTH - Hope this helps'

The stop boards have now gone up on all Platforms at Wimbledon, but something that I have noticed is that some of them are noticeably shorter than the standard stop board, particularly Platform 2, which has looks a bit like this:

| >>>>>> S|7 |

Are these temporary? because they do look a bit peculiar (even more so with that blue mesh thing wrapped around the bottom (which is there for safety, So I'm guessing it's not going to be replaced any time soon)

Also, on the topic of Stop Boards, why is it that those installed later (South Circle and Later) are a different shade of yellow (like this) whilst those elsewhere are a more yellow-y yellow (like this)?