A Stock withdrawals - Discussion

The final scrapping run:

www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/8067729151/in/photostream

(Well, for a few years.)

Did it go by road? It was at the southern end of the train when it arrived at Northwood so couldn't have got out of the siding without some shunting back on to the running lines.

My wife took my daughter to Northwood this evening to see the "last train" and there was a car badly damaged in the car park. Don't know if that was something to do with the "movements" going on there.

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!