The Great Christmas Quiz 2007?

Ahh... perhaps its to celebrate the transfer of the stock to the IOW, and this is the first train off the boat?

I think your''re spot on pgb... when I was on the IOW, at the pier head station, there was some sort of corrugated material or summat that looked like what is reflected in the window...

Could this be the last train to be formed of this stock, before the 38ts came over?

I went to the IOW in 1997.

Could also be St Johns Road, beside the depot!

Hmmm, some were painted some into the livery they had when introduced on the Underground...

I thought it was only post privatisation that trains on the IOW carried London Transport livery? Standard Stock were long gone by that time.

I'm not convinced this is the IOW. The lighting doesn't feel right for outdoors, and I'm increasingly of the opinion that the lower part of the front left window has been altered. I'm undecided about the upper part.

There is what appears to be an anomaly in the roof line of the train - look directly up from the cab door pillar.

isle of wight railway

For ease of reference, here is the quiz picture again

On the second plated-over louvre from the front, there is a reflection of something. It appears to be a gate or barrier of some type, running at right angles to the reflected lines. If my assumption that the top white line is a platform edge marker, then it looks to be running from the far platform edge to approximately the midpoint and extends vertically to the top of the reflective surface.
This could of course just be an optical illusion.

Looking again, I'm not certain there is a person in the right window. The bit at the bottom could be a prominent bit of the controls; the bit on the right could be looking through a window in the far cab door. The large bit looks to be partly in front of and partly behind the bars - the right hand light bit could be another part of a paper (or similary) something covering this grill that has come apart.

I am wracking my brain to remember but I am certain that transfers used a battery loco at both ends.

I have the book "Northern wastes" which has a couple of photos of stock moves with only one battery loco.

All that was needed - standard stock never ran on the Victoria line. However, the experiemental tunnels driven north of Finsbury Park in 1962-3 (which later became part of the line) did use standard stock for tests.

Not wishing to widdle on your strawberries, but isn't the red tail light lit on the LH side of the unit? I can't remember if the standard stock tail light would remain lit when 'off juice'?

This is a 1931/4 Standard Stock with what looks like a 1931 trailer on the Northern City Line at Drayton Park. If so, it is about 1964, since the train has one of those experimental flashing tail lights which were tried out on the line from August 1964.

If the train is at Drayton Park, I wonder why all the doors are closed. Perhaps it is being prepared for service. They used to stable one in the platform overnight.

IoW trains were all modified and repainted before they went to the island. Most of them were repainted at Stewarts Lane.

All LU trains had electric tail lights AND oil or battery tail lamps until er er someone help me here - 1970s?

I am debating whether lamps were used on Standard Stock and Sub-surface Stock used on pilot/ballast duties?