A Stock withdrawals - Discussion

Although 5056/7 was a regular on the East London Line, the last unit to run in public service there was 5066/7 : which was scrapped a fair while back.

Are they both likely to go next week?

Leaving the following bastions of A Stock, out of existence.
5000-009 (5000 final)
5050-059 (5057 final)
5070-079 (5070 final)
5140-149 (5149 final)
5150-159 (5151 final)
5170-179 (5177 final)
5190-199 (5195 final)
5220-229 (5225 final)

Three more bastions being consigned to history. 5034, 5046, 5134, 5203, 5219 represent 5 endangered groups...

i spoke to a friend in wembley he said he likes the new trains and was glad to see the back of the old ones.

i don't agree as everyone sees differently, some see deeper and those are the ones that favour the A stock.

Care to explain?

I would thought that the transition from T stock, Dreadnoughts and the Met's steam and electric Bo-Bo locos to A stock was far, far more disliked than A stock to S stock. I am sure the great John Betjeman was bereaved about being transported in cold, soulless tin cans through Metroland, when he did his film in the early 1970s.

Yes, down a small branch line. The question was 'Which "small branch lines" are they?'.

I'm sure most people on this forum would have been sad to see the brown trains go 50 years ago. It's what you are used to. The thing with the S stock is it isn't a very interesting train for the enthusiast. Couple (see what I did there!) this to the fact that it will replace all the sub-surface trains within the next 5 year thus ending any interest between the lines and their trains.

Ha ha. Love a good Spitfire, both winged and in a pint glass!

There are a lot of people on here that don't know anything other than the A stock. It's hard for people. It was lucky it was raining when I filmed 5056-57 for the last time at Northwood.

As a child travelling on public transport in London in the 1970s, the LT 1938, CO/CP and R stocks and the Southern Region EPBs, and DEMU Thumpers were far more captivating , A stocks were, even in original condition, with a train guard and not graffiti scarred no comparison. I even thought the clean lines of the Metro Cammel D stocks, especially prior to the hopper windows being fitted and handrails (now gone), the ride, the sound they made were a cut above A stocks. The lack of guard, not running as 4 car units and the refurb has ruined anything they had.

Many mourned the end of the Routemaster in London, but in my eyes they were shameful in every respect with horrible refurb interiors and dam awful jerky engines and some even thought it was justified to send death threats to Peter Hendy, God oh mighty! The RMs were put out of their misery.

I would expect there to be some units left but only used in the peaks.

It went from Neasden-Aylesbury-P Risboro'(via Little Kimble)-Derby

Thanks. Hadn't thought about reversing, although I did think it was a bit strange for what looked like unrefurbished stock to be passing through southbound.