Record cover

Yes,

This photo was taken in the 1950s. In those days, train numbers were not restricted by programme machines as they are today.

The pic comes from the half title page of the book about the stock depicted!

Subway Sect was one of the first punk bands, formed in '76, played loads of gigs and toured a lot but they only released two singles, that’s the cover of their debut single “Nobody’s scared b/w Don’t split it” from March ‘78.

Manager Bernie Rhodes fired the entire band apart from the singer Vic Goddard in the summer while they were in they studio recording the album . The album was shelved and the only thing to come out of the sessions was the second single, "Ambition" in October '78.

They reformed twice as Vic Goddard and the Subway Sect.

I'm now going to Pogo quietly in the corner.....

1978. Modern music?!?!?! Thank you for making me feel young again!

The story is that Goddard though that "he needed to reshape Sect to reflect his new ideas in writing". Later versions of the band tried for a Northern soul feel and by the end he was crooning jazz!

Rhodes was paying the band £15 each a week, after the cull Goddard got £50 a week.

The guitar and bass players were there from the start but they were on their third drummer by the end.

Isn't that advert on the wall marvellous? "Give CAPSTAN this Christmas".

If I recall from the smoking club on the upper deck of the 275 when I was at school, the packet of Capstan we sampled reduced even the hardcore smokers amongst us to spluttering wrecks within seconds.

Trains became numbered 51-97 from WTT No.23 of 1/10/45.

They were changed from 111-167 from WTT No.58 of 26/1/70 (excluding '8' and '9').

When the 1972 Stock was being introduced on the Bakerloo Line (proper!), the four nominated trains were numbered 317, 320, 321 and 322 so they stood out from the normal trains and reversed south to north in the peaks via London Road depot(WTT No.75 from 4/4/77). However, it wasn't uncommon for them to be substituted by 1938 Stock, which used the 3xx set numbers and ran in those paths. Normal 1xx numbers for 1972 Stock from WTT No.76 from 8/8/77 after all crews trained on them.

Revised to be 121-174 from WTT No.1 of 1/5/79.

The present numbering (2xx) was introduced with WTT No.3 of 6/12/82.

Here's the original photo:

www.flickr.com/photos/woodslibrary/4523610768/

From an old postcard taken in the 1960's. Some sections look as they've been painted and the driver looks like a tailors dummy!

I remember this postcard appearing in the (early?) 1960s. The motorman I am 99% sure was Fred Ridout who was based at Neasden (Bakerloo) a more nicer and more knowledgeable man you couldn't wish to meet, and always turned out in full uniform. Even into the 1980s we often talked about things past, including Standard Stock on the Bakerloo, when the stock was increased from 6- to 7-cars .... wonderful times.