A Stock Liveries

That one with the blue doors is intriguing - presumably from the period when LU were experimenting with liveries before settling on the current red-white-blue?

Does it have "Metropolitan Line" written high up on the body between the doors?

I recall some of the A stock had maroon roofs "unofficially" painted by Neasden on overhaul - there must have been about 5 or 6 of them - they looked great when freshly applied but darkened quickly. Top Brass stopped this and the roofs were then turned out in dark grey.

At the time of fairly endemic grafitti - this was a real morale booster - and sort of fits the image of Metroland I thought - red tiled roofs etc and all that.

In addition to the maroon roofs, there was one with a bright red roof and another with a dark blue one (may just have been the domes)

I seem to recollect it being said that the blue doors livery train on the East London, kept prompting calls that there was a train running about with it's doors open !

I have some pictures of C 5585 and 6585 in a livery of grey roof, blue to below the windows then white to the bottom, all red cab !! Pictures now posted to the Circle and H&C section under "C stock liveries"

I think the A stock looks good in NSE livery! They look better without the sticky-out thing around the headlights.

In the early days when the first appeared the A60s and A62s had grey roofs BUT of different shades of grey. I *think* that the 60s had the light grey and the 62s a darker shade. It was always noticeable from the Marsh Road overbridge in Pinner when an 8 car ran under with one of each batch

And weren't there some maroon roofs that came out of Neasden upon overhaul in the 80s.

I just about remember traveling on a blue doors A60, and also the United picc for that matter.... Long ago now

It mentions that in 'Steam to Silver'.

Would that be the Chesham shuttle, as only 4 cars are present?

You can tell that it is a single ended unit as it doesn't have the OPO door controls covering the lower part of the driver's window.

That was before they put those ugly barriers on them!
Why would a single ended unit be on its own at Rickmansworth? I thought A stock were only coupled into 8 car trains at Neasden.

They probably took the equipment from these cabs so they didn't have to find spares, like what happened on the 67TS. Was the seat changed when they were refurbished, but there was no point putting new driver's seats in the middle DMs?

All right, then, was the 4-car unit at Ricky used in a stock transfer, if that unit could not operate by itself in passenger service?

Wouldn't they send a double ended unit from Neasden?