C69/77 Stock - Withdrawals

Ha ha! I thought everyone on here called them Wimblewares! Anyway, Merry Christmas to one and all. Have a drink for the C stock!!!

Nun's outfitter - I won't make a habit of using the term in the future!

I wonder if the train crews used to use that name?

Also, what about "Bakerloo"? Surely this is just as bad as "Wimbleware", except that we've never known it called by anything different, so we're used to it. I'm assuming that nobody on here was around when it was called the Baker Street and Waterloo railway . . .

Or when the Northern Line was known as the 'Edgware-Morden Line'

When is the next lot of C stocks going?

Indeed today, Monday and Wednesday.

I overtook a C stock car on the M1 near Leicester on Monday: 6557 I think - traffic was heavy and the lorry was wide so my main concern was not hitting it rather than confirming its number! Slightly surprised as the only others I've seen on the road were a pair heading south, on the M25 near Staines before Christmas.

Have 8 units gone so far this year?

Is the first Wimbledon-Edgware Rd S stock in passenger service still planned for February?

That's quite soon, it really does creep up on you. I assume that at that point, C stock will cease operating on the H&C&C

I don't think theC Stock will have the following the A stock did and I or one will not miss them let alone go on a farewell tour on one!

XF

I will certainly go on a tour and attend the last run. It may be not be the best train built for LT but its got character and a history. I much prefer it to the soulless S stock that is replacing it even though in most cases it is a big improvement for users. I just don't like new trains personally!

Metman loves the C Stock so much that he is going on the farewell trip 3 times!!!

If only more people could be struck down. After all, I've yet to meet anyone other than those in the enthusiast community who refers to the service as 'Wimbleware'.

Wonderful how we all have entirely different perceptions of the same physical entity. I'm with the majority, can't stand the C stock and will be overjoyed when the last one gets crushed to a black hole. Looking back, there's not a single other type I've ever felt that way about (and that's going right back to 34 tube stock, Metropolitan T, F, P/Q/R, the clerestory Districts etc) - all had character and merit, imho, apart from the dreadful tin cans thankfully rapidly disappearing from our C, HC & D lines. Even the rather anodyne 69/72 tubes have merit and I look forward to their 60th anniversary on the Bakerloo.

And despite fondness for most of the byegone classes, I really like the S stock. For the first time in their history, to my mind, the Circle etc have real trains on them - which the Bombardiers surely are, similar to the mainline 375-379 - as opposed to cheap dingy tinny toytown stuff (OK, not the skirted P/Q/R, they had real character, but still didn't look like proper trains).

The S stock is superbly fit for purpose in every respect (other than not enough seats for long-distance Metro line commuters in the peak), and looks good, is bright, spacious, has aircon, and sings modernity and class in a sometimes aging and oppressive subterranean environment. C stock is the direct opposite, and good riddance.