The last Passenger D stock 21st April

Rostered drivers all day AIUI.

There were drivers rostered for it, but it had been commandeered by a more enthusiastic I/Op when i was on this morning.

A short video, intended to be nothing more than a few video snapshots of my day riding and chasing the last train. All footage from today - I resisted adding even a few seconds of historic footage. That will come later...



Whilst it is probable that some D stock cars will find a second life as Vivarail trains, and of course there will be the RAT trains, it is still my understanding that only the DM's and T's are being retained, with the entire fleet of UNDM's being scrapped. Or am I wrong on this?

Simon

I've worked my way through 701 images today [am I that sad I get so trigger happy].

The images start at Richmond, when I was thwarted earlier in the day when Train 004 was reversed at Gunnersbury, however I managed to capture it arriving at Richmond in the afternoon. Meeting up with it again at South Kensington I traveled with it to North Ealing. The images also record the train entering Ealing Common Depot.

Mainline EMUs, Overground and 73TS also feature.

Many thanks to LU staff for operating the service in great humour.

Here's to the railtour in two weeks

Oh and before I forget.... my images are HERE

There will be two UNDMs in each RAT.

Thank you to everyone for uploading the updates and there picturse really remarkable images here absoloutley stunning. Perhaps those of you who took pictures could make a D stock calender for 2018 with some those images they really are beautiful

Superb photos Chris. You were obviously standing right behind me at Ealing Common as the D went to depot.

I would just like to thank all the forum users that posted helpful updates throughout the day. A quick dash out of work meant I could pick up the final working at Aldgate East (also helped by the delay after the siding routing) and enjoy the ride to Ealing Broadway. I was at the front of car 3 and another chap also got on with me at Aldgate East clearly after his last D Stock ride - if you are a forum member do say hello.

Was a good mix of ordinary customers and enthusiasts of all ages which made for a pleasant atmosphere. My good wife (a daily District Line commuter) even made it to Gloucester Rd in time to join us. Glad everyone had fun and from what I could see was in good spirits, friendly and well behaved. Plenty of questions from ordinary punters including the guy sat next to me who was puzzled as to what was going on on his normal journey home

Finally a well done to all involved behind the scenes.

I've put my photos from the day on Google Photos. Link below.

Last D Stock

My videos from yesterday are now uploaded:

Gutted to have missed all the fun yesterday. I had planned a ride on the final trip as well as going on the rail tour in a couple of weeks time, but some family problems changed everything. I've just gone through Ealing Common and had a final look at the Last Three sitting in the depot. A sad sight.

Now that the D-Stock has retired, there will be a very long interval until the next trains are withdrawn..

All three of these have been mooted for the next stock to be withdrawn, but I believe the current idea of the 'first in line' are the 73 stock. Plenty could change though!

However, this is off topic, and as I didn't attend the final passenger run of 7007/7032, I will bow out here...

I also would like to thank everyone for keeping up to date with proceedings on the day and this week. I was unable to attend the last day but have managed a trip in the week thanks to the updates posted. There was some good media coverage, however the BBC managed to say farewell to the D stock with the second shot on their video being a C stock train. It was still on their website a few minutes ago under the UK news.(2300 Saturday)