C Stocks on the Met

1) Shortage of Stock?

I'm pretty sure I remember reading on this forum that (maybe planned but never happened) that a C stock once ran from Upton Park W/B to Baker St, onto the met main line and up to Wembley Park for a football special. Could anyone clear that up too?

Crikey, Baker Street doesn't look half as nice as it does today! Then again, that C stock...!

Train 211 - diverted Circle line then?

Early 90’s there used to be timetabled late evening moves from the Circle Line to Wembley Park (and before that to Harrow on the Hill). The last Circle used to be described as a Circle to Tower Hill then Wembley Park at Aldgate. This was either the last train or the penultimate last train to Wembley Park.

Apparently at that time Neasden carried out servicing on C stock, hence the reason for the timetabled moves. There was also a counter move in the morning, returning the train in service. Travelling on a C stock on the Met fast lines was something akin to a fairground ride. You got thrown all over the place. Nonetheless it was sufficiently special for me to go out of my way to sample the trip a few times!

I also recall travelling on one late at night back to Harrow. It might have been due to rail replacement work or something similar. Apparently Harrow was the original late night destination, with the train returning out of service to Neasden. However by the time I had started to rely upon the last trains, the scheduled Harrows had ceased.

Dean

Also wasn't it the case that the Met started earlier/finished later than the Bakerloo on Sundays?

We had a clip in a film shown one LURS evening of a C Stock at Finchley Road, having traversed the crossover that was then just south of the Bakerloo platforms.

I most certainly travelled upon one, as a minor, that came from Wembley Park sidings (sheds) and ran passenger to Barking.
(Along with threats to "tip it out" at Moorgate as some unruly football supporters were holding doors open.) There were several C stocks in Wembley Park sheds on that occasion so I assume more than one such train did that run on that day.

Yes it did indeed, the Yellow pages C-stock did the Shuttle on one of the Steam on the Mets and another one did it as well

Did it run the shuttle as a speical sort of service of was it purely because of a shortage of A Stocks?

D Stock has also run to Chesham of course.

The operation on the Chesham Shuttle was, as mentioned, part of the Steam on the Met event. My records show a four car train formed of units 5537 and 5593 on 17th May 1998.

There was a plan to run a C Stock from Upminster to Wembley Park in the late-70s/early-80s when West Ham were in the FA Cup Final (IIRC). Scuppered by the unions who wouldn't allow a 'Met' train to run over District Line tracks. Not one of their better moments I think. There was a poster produced advertising this train which had a drawing of a C Stock complete with football special 'headboard', though I don't believe one would have been carried in reality.

I want to go on one on the Met although that will probably never happen again

i think around 1980's to late 90's

I remember last year someone on here mentioned having to take a C Stock up the Metropolitan Line and stopping in random places on the platforms (because there aren't any 6 car stopping signs up the Metropolitan Line and C Stocks are shorter than A Stocks).