What is that at Hainault depot?

I know, I'm trying to work out why, not only can't I link to the photo I can't seem link to the guys page either. Odd. I suspect it might be because he sells photos, so he has disabled linking and photo URL copying. Bear with me.

It looks like an old Standard stock train, maybe one used for engineering purposes?

Thanks.

So, essentially, examples of the original CLR multiple stock of 1904 were still in existence EIGHTY years later, and then were scrapped.
Brilliant.

Oh right, I didn't notice a comments field for the photos.

You can see a preserved example of the de-icing machine that LT built from withdrawn CLR 1904 stock.
Where can you see an example of the actual stock?
Nowhere, I suspect. One or more could have been re-created from surviving Departmental stock such as seen above, had anybody been so far-sighted to have thought such a thing worth preserving.
What were people thinking of? It isn't as if railway preservation was in its infancy in the 1980s.

As an officer of the Talyllyn Railway Company, I feel duty-bound to point out that the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society was founded in 1950 and in May 1951 operated the world's first preserved railway; standard gauge preserved railways only started operating almost ten years later.

Bank on topic we have a sleet loco preserved in the LT Museum depot at Acton and the Spa Valley has the T Stock cars. Much better than nothing!

My understanding is that at least ELEVEN of these machines were still in existence in 1980, and each one consisted of the greater part of two CLR driving motors of 1904 stock. These units formed the first multiple-unit trains on the CLR, and possibly on any tube railway anywhere.
Having survived the War, they were broken-up during the 1980s, at a time when railway preservation was well established. One was preserved as an example of the Sleet Locomotive in its own right, and nobody saw the opportunity to retain even ONE of the others to form the basis of a restored CLR motor.
This was short-sighted and unforgiveable.
Many ancient and historic items of railway history have been salvaged from far less original material than was available here. An opportunity was lost.

That was my understanding as well. The former CLR units scrapped in the 80s were all sleet locomotives. In other words they had nothing different to preserve in the eighties than what resides in the LT Museum now.

Sorry, could you clarify? Where were these 20 bodies and frames stored, and when were they eventually scrapped?

You refer to "one preserved as a sleet locomotive". It is in fact just one of a fleet originally numbering eighteen, converted between 1938 and 1941. Each locomotive used the cabs and motor compartments of two donor cars, with a new central section for the deicing gear, supported by two bogies apparently salvaged from tramcars. .



How much of the electrical gear is orgnal is debatable, as the had to be converted from the CLR's 3-rail system to the LU standard 4-rail system

Although forty cars had originally been set aside for this purpose, the fate of the four surplus cars was probably the same as that of the passengers sections of the cars that were converted. There was a war on at the time after all.

With railings, saucepans, and even some railway lines, being collected for salvage to provide feedstock for the munitions industry, the likely fate of a fleet of redundant rolling stock is easy to imagine. Even if any cars had survived the war without being scrapped or converted into sleet locomotives, given the shocking state into which the Standard stock fell during the long years of storage pending the Central Line extensions, the idea that there were the resources to prevent the redundant 1904 stock rotting away seems a little far-fetched, even if there had been space to store it.

I thought the ones from spa valley went to the Buckinghamshire railway centre? Or am I getting confused with something else.

Probably Standard Stock from the 1920s or 1930s if it was as late as 1963. There was plenty of that knocking about in the early sixties, recently displaced by 1959/62 stock on the Picadilly and Central lines. Some cars were converted for use with 1960 stock and on the Isle of Wight, and one or two have been preserved.