S stock delivery & introduction - discussion

I rarely use the Wimbledon branch but I have done three times in the last couple of days, so disappointed to miss the historic event - although I probably had my last-ever C stock runs so historic anyway! I left Earls Court about 1945 - where would it have been around then? (I did notice a lot of disruption - most trains seemed to be going to "Check front of Train" - I somethimes think I should move there, it often seems to get a better service than anywhere else!

I slipped up by accident because the following, sorry:

I always thought that new arrangements would start at weekends so that the management could get another chance to make final checks.

The WIM branch passengers will care once they can't easily tell the City and Edgware Rd trains apart any more!

There were delays on the Circle line around 6pm. I was at High Street Kensington waiting for T71 to go to Wimbledon and it was quite late. There was also a C Stock in the Triangle Sidings.

I suspect that the vast majority of them probably can't tell the difference between a C and a D stock anyway. I often think that, as railway enthusiasts, we tend to imbue the travelling public with the same level of interest in, and recognition of what they step onto as we enjoy when in actual fact, most of them don't know and furthermore, care even less as long as it doesn't break down.

According to my Dad, my late Mother was incapable of differentiating a CO/CP from an R despite the colour difference but would rely on the age old tactic of checking the map and actually looking at the destination depicted on the train to work out where to go in town.....and all this whilst talking non-stop about nothing-in-particular. Not exactly rocket science for her and I doubt things are any different now! 

I should say that I did begin to believe people were waiting for an S instead of a C a while back but then that's probably just my own prejudice playing games on my mind!

75 was a bonus extra

Many years ago I got talking to someone on a late night train from Victoria which was severely delayed by snow. It transpired that he had been commuting from Ramsgate to Victoria for over thirty years. Eventually, TPTB decided, for some unknown reason, to shorten the train and 'passengers in the rear four cars should make their way to the front of the train'. As we walked towards the front set it became clear that my companion (who was clearly a perfectly intelligent person) could not tell where one set ended and another started. Over thirty years travelling and it it had never impinged on his conciousness that the ends of EMU sets were painted bright yellow!

It's running in the path of Train 75 but the train number appearing on the train says 753.

All these people who think that your average punter don't realise the difference, you'd be wrong. I arrived into Wimbledon across from an s stock operating train 75 and quite a number of people went across from the c stock and wentn for a novel walk along the s stock commenting about the temperature and walk through, and I heard others talking about his it was a new different train and how it was so cool

What will be the next part of the District line to get S7s after the C stocks have gone?

Gunnersbury on the Richmond branch looks to have been enabled for quite a while, for example the Station ID Pillars have been installed for nearly a year, along with the S7 Stopping Marks.

Have there been any test S7's run down the Richmond Branch?
Is the Richmond branch going to be the last to have its stock replaced?

Ta,
Tom

I've seen somewhere that the Ealing Broadway and Upminster Routes will be enabled first around July/August and then the Richmond branch a month later, around September. Has the Richmond branch become easier to enable, or have the Ealing/Upminster branches slipped behind, or was this just information that was just a rough idea?

It depends on how quickly they can train the T/Ops Earls Court is nearly completed Acton is starting to train their T/Ops so that will enable the C stocks to retire once we are all trained then the East end Depots Barking & Upminster have to be trained until then it will be unlikely to see them on city services because if an S stock arrives at a relief point and the relief driver is not S stock trained it will cause chaos.

There seemed to be a lot more s7s out on the district today, or at least running on trains which should have been c stock. Also this morning, the train I was on had a bit of a juddery stop at Fulham Broadway, emergency brake short of the mark. Pull forward and brake again, and then eventually pull forward and stop (gently this time) but when I got out and had a look at the train, what i assume to be the deicing light (white light on the outside of one of the cars) was on. Can anyone inform me why this was. It took a while to get moving again, so could it have been a PEA activation, the whight light signifying the car in which the alarm had been activated?