a60
I will make the 8100 Class DART my new A Stock.
Posts: 745
|
Post by a60 on Jun 2, 2012 10:48:10 GMT
I don't believe it! A video was posted to youtube claiming that the A Stock was built from 1958 to 1961!
1958 (or 1959) was when the order was placed, and 1961 was when they started entering service.
|
|
metman
Global Moderator
5056 05/12/1961-23/04/2012 RIP
Posts: 7,421
|
Post by metman on Jun 2, 2012 10:50:53 GMT
I remember even one driver told me once that the A stock was built by Metro-cammell! I didn't have the heart to correct him, especially as he may have kicked me out  |
|
a60
I will make the 8100 Class DART my new A Stock.
Posts: 745
|
Post by a60 on Jun 2, 2012 10:56:02 GMT
Hmm, did he say that because Cravens got bought-out by Met-Camm??? Probably not...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2012 12:50:08 GMT
I don't believe it! A video was posted to youtube claiming that the A Stock was built from 1958 to 1961! 1958 (or 1959) was when the order was placed, and 1961 was when they started entering service. KEEP
CALM
AND
CARRY
ON |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2012 12:57:22 GMT
Even more amusing, if you look at the YouTube channel of the person posting the video, he or she seems to have a fascination for toilets!! ;D ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by jardine01 on Jun 3, 2012 13:19:32 GMT
He has not got a clue! If you look on his S stock video its he says it was constructed between 2005-2008! Maybe the design was planned then but not the train! It annoys me when people get it wrong they are only human yes I remember my friend who thought the 1973 stock was the 1967 stock!  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2012 13:41:11 GMT
He has not got a clue!.......It annoys me when people get it wrong Quite...... This is the trouble with the web and always will be. The temptation to post ill-informed, poorly researched opinions as fact is an overwhelming compulsive addiction in some people and, given the great range of easy opportunities available, very easy to achieve. |
|
|
|
Post by redsetter on Jun 3, 2012 14:22:25 GMT
the person who never made a mistake never made anything.
|
|
|
|
Post by 1018509 on Jun 3, 2012 16:14:52 GMT
While I liked, and worked with the A60's the Underground of my memory is the Standard and 1938 stock of the Piccadilly and the COP stock and occasional F stock of the Metropolitan. All of which were being phased out when I was a child and my intertests in the Underground were growing. I dare say was District Dave's website up and running then these stock would have been equally grieved for.
Having said that during my time on the Piccadilly maintenence team a few units of 1938 stock were re-introduced for a short while for timetable improvements. Not sure when this was but imagine it was sometime in the mid to late 70's - ?
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2012 16:43:24 GMT
@ 1018509
I think our times are similar as I followed the Standard Stock withdrawals and 1959/62 deliveries. Also had an interest in the Met., but the others were closer to home (I rode on the Met loco special on 9/9/61 though).
Your reference to the 1938s on the Picc -
Three trains returned to service on the Picc in March and April 1975 (3-car units 10029, 10033 and 10295, and 4-car units 11022, 11026 and 11038). They made occasional trips to Hatton Cross after that opened, but two were withdrawn in November 1975 and the last in December 1975 (10029+11026) which was transferred to the Northern Line on 9/12/75. I was a District Line Traffic Controller at the time and we took the Piccadilly Line on nights and Sundays, so maintained a healthy interest.
|
|
|
|
Post by 1018509 on Jun 3, 2012 16:50:26 GMT
I'm having a crisis here. The years you quote, although undoubtedly right make me feel that the Underground must have employed me as a schoolboy train technician 39 years ago.
I was a babe of 24 tender years then. :-)
|
|
|
|
Post by astock5000 on Jun 3, 2012 23:09:30 GMT
I don't believe it! A video was posted to youtube claiming that the A Stock was built from 1958 to 1961! 1958 (or 1959) was when the order was placed, and 1961 was when they started entering service. I once had an argument with someone on YouTube who thought they first entered service in 1959. After I proved that the first A stock entered service in 1961 they told me not to listen to my sources! I think they gave up after I quoted a book, and asked them what their source was. Unfortunately there are a lot of people on there who just say nonsense - remember the rumour about 5232 being preserved? |
|
a60
I will make the 8100 Class DART my new A Stock.
Posts: 745
|
Post by a60 on Jun 3, 2012 23:44:32 GMT
Well yes, bronzeonion and myself have also had altercations with that youtuber. The nonsense he churns up with is at best odd.
5062 being returned to prefub condition overall. He said I was nuts for saying the HSE would be in fits of annoyance over wooden flooring being reinstalled. Purely because of the 38TS he said I was on some other planet... But the A Stock has safer flooring and it wouldn't be cost effective furthermore to put wood in. That same user claimed that 5232 was to be saved - in pieces now...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2012 8:00:06 GMT
This is very serious matter people who make factorial errors about A Stock should be sentenced to a week traveling on S stock for the whole of the working day. That will teach'm Outraged of Berkshire |
|
a60
I will make the 8100 Class DART my new A Stock.
Posts: 745
|
Post by a60 on Jun 4, 2012 9:42:00 GMT
Perhaps that sentence is too kind. Maybe we should send them off to Cambodia and make them ride the Bamboo railway. Ex-pat of London. Now flabbergasted of Norfolk |
|
|
|
Post by alfie on Jun 4, 2012 9:47:11 GMT
Apparently the Bamboo railway is rather good!
|
|
a60
I will make the 8100 Class DART my new A Stock.
Posts: 745
|
Post by a60 on Jun 4, 2012 9:54:43 GMT
More punctual than the ordinary railway, more regular, and more reliable, too. Plus from watchin a video they are very crashworthy.
|
|
