1992 Tube Stock - Possibility of Post Central / W&C line use

Interesting, Drainrat.
Of course, though Woodbridge is situated on the wrong side of the line, didn't a lot of its pupils come from the posh side? They may even have been to Churchfields Junior!

In the course of the Chancery Lane investigation, the reasonings of why the current stock was chosen over the other stock designs was gone into in great detail. One of the other stock - think the one that was in green livery at Woodford - was the preferred choice of fleet and the engineers directorate (so it was seen), and no one could understand why the current stock was actually chosen, cue claims of underhand goings on and backhanders.
Given the general distaste for the stock, I don't have much confidence in possibility of post service use, unless someone took it off their hands for free, but would probably be too much hassle for them.

As for Woodbridge school, most were from the estates of Broadmead and Ray lodge. Trinity was on the posh side and boasts a few on screen characters like Tamzin Outhwaite, Louise Lombard and the irrepressible James 'Arg' Argent famed for his sister cheating in the London marathon and having a middle name to remind him what his surname is, it also schooled Bob Crows offspring too 😉

I'm not too sure, there were 3, I think the present stock was one of the 3

The one thing I most remember when the 92s came in was the shoddy design of the seats and armrests, which I don't remember on the prototypes!

the 1983 stock was never reliable which is why new options were examined with technology advancing rapidly at the time.

It appears that the accountants won from the engineers at the time of ordering stock for the Central line.

I had to get the line diagrams printed and installed for the Woodford event. This meant I saw a lot of imperfections in the prototype trains. They were hand crafted with lots of poor cutting in the bodies etc.

see second line in my previous post

Notwithstanding anything else, at a time of budgetary shortfall, the PFI was pretty much the only way of financing the 95 stock. A trial light refurbishment of a 59 stock train was carried out to assess viability of retaining them should fleet replacement not happen. A shame in many ways, as the 59 stock might then have had a lifespan comparable to the A stock, although this in itself would have been costly as it would have required retention of guards (conversion of 59 stock to OPO would have been extremely costly).

To be fair, the Alstom contract has generally delivered well - especially as the contract has matured. The 95 stock performs well, and is in a noticeably better all-round state than the 96 stock, and is in a *much* better condition than 92 stock despite only being a few years younger. I'm less familiar with the financial aspects of the Alstom deal, so can't comment on whether it has been good value-for-money.

The Wilipedia article suggests that the production run was based on the BREL (blue) train, that being the one favoured by the public - not necessarily the operators or maintenance teams' choice, be it noted. But looking at the photos, some features of the other two trains (both built by Metro Cammell) seem to have crept into the production series: note in particular the side windows of the green train.

It must be the different class of passengers!

It's all the same design they ordered 85 8 car for the central line and 5 4 car for the Waterloo and City. Only difference the Central version was built for ATO.

At the time Network South East as it was decided to order the same trains LUL was buying as it was cheaper than coming up with their own design. From introduction all 92 units had arm rests don't know why the Central lines were removed though. 

Apart from minor details such as paint, the trains were the same. The NSE ones were tested on the Central Line (the Drain having neither the space nor the negative rail to allow them to be tested whilst the 1940 stock was still in situ). In theory I suppose a mixed formation was possible but I don't know if it ever happened.

That film showing that the DMs were fitted with working autocouplers at the cab ends, even though they would never be required in normal use!

Very nice film of testing on the Central Line. Stratford, almost no passengers, again; good shot of Leyton B entrance, bridge, etc, removed a few years later

That's hardly "normal use", and pushouts have to operate on other lines with emergency couplers only.