A Stock withdrawals - Discussion

5188+5118 arrived Northwood siding 1245 on 717

Yes they are, I was hoping for 5188 to be on Wednesdays train with 5118 as they were the pair that wernt dolled up, and 5034 and 5062 were already said to be on the tour. But in the end 5034 and 5062 were used on both!

I was hoping for 5034+5189. I understand that 5189+5118 needed exams so they were withdrawn (fair enough!)

So the LT Museum are getting an A60 cars, all the departmental survivors are A60. Can I suggest that if anyone on here is connected to the LTM, efforts are made NOW to gather the unique A62 components (esp compressors) so that this technology is preserved. would only be one pallet worth I guess.

Who else noticed that 5034 in its dolled up form on Saturday had a 1962 tread plate on the second set of doors on the left hand side?

Or wait for the RAT to come out this month and find one on the northern part of the line.

5034 has a 1962 plate?

Yeah, when I got off at Wembley Park on Saturday I was about to take a photo of the treadplate but then thought, hang on? That says 1962 in large font!

I always felt I had little connection with them, being a 'DR' man, but on reflection:

•I was shown over an A Stock at Neasden by a T/I as part of the Guard's course at the RTC.

•The first train I ever drove during Guard's job-training was a 4-car A Stock on the ELL.

•My Guard's road-test was by a Met A/M and included working an 8-car A Stock from Baker Street to Liverpool Street and a 4-car A Stock from Whitechapel to Surrey Docks.

•I worked A Stock on the ELL as a Guard at Barking (Met) and we also had one duty doing Baker Street S/B to Baker Street N/B via Aldgate on an Amersham train.

•When I was DTM in charge of Canal Junction cabin I would ride there and back on A Stock.

•At Neasden TMR our entire Met service was A Stock and I saw the refurbished units arrive hauled by Class 37's and the same loco taking the 'silver' ones away to be done.

•I also rode on an A Stock when it worked back from Upminster depot in (cancelled) engineering hours after it had work done on the wheel-lathe and must be the only person to ever exit an A Stock at Mile End station!

Not bad for little connection!

As the remain A Stock are RATs maybe the S stock should be known as SKUNK's - however we need would need the acronym to mean something - any suggestions?

XF

5034+5062/63 was 'turned' tonight, Neasden - Watford/Rickmansworth - Neasden, arriving back at Wembley Park southbound at 21.17.

5063/5034 approaches Harrow on the Hill in the rain today. Last time we'll see an 8 car A stock train I guess. It's crossing to go through platform 4 to pass a Watford train.

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The RAT passed through Northwood going south about 10/15 mins before 5063/5034 arrived to go into the siding.

There are still a number of cars of 1983 Jubilee Line stock parked in South Harrow sidings which have been there more years than I can remember. Left there after an abortive attempt to use them on an Acton to Uxbridge shuttle and are probably now welded to the rails. Sad to think there will soon be more of them left than A stock cars.

Yup, 5034 (ex 5008) is officially preserved as a static display, which isn't bad at all. Actually, I was a bit surprised that 5034 was going to make it because the front was white in 2010. Did the film for the front get replaced by a fresh respray?

I hadn't realised they were keeping that many.



I suppose it got a bit further than a discussion since several 1983 stock were parked at South Harrow for a while. Some went for scrap some time ago but I wonder what they will do with the 9 cars left.

There are also at least two parked on the old viaduct leading to the old Broad Street station and one apparently at Great Ormond Street - see www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/features/2817/London_Underground-s_old_tube_trains.html

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