Recreating 'vanished' Underground stock

A first suggestion - a train of mixed B, C, D, E District Railway stock, which I have, but sadly only in 00-gauge etched brass.

Good call on the F stock. What about a train of 1920ts? With converted french motors, or even a couple of the older standards banging about.

I'd have to go with either the Hungarian Gate stock for the Northern or the F stock.

I'd like to see a train of F stock as well, or even a rake of 'dreadnought' coaches for Sarah to pull instead of that old unit!

There will still be some of all 3 surface stocks in existance in 2013, hopefully, the Dreadnoughts can be brought out with Sarah. If only the two T stock cars could be remotored, they could run with 2 of the dreadnoughts!

I fear you've answered your own question in a manner of sorts.

My choice would be to get the 3 dreadnought's back from Yorkshire to run with No12, and get rid of that horrible impostor set. As for the 2 T stock DM's, how about refurbishing them with new more modern equipment and using them as a heritage train on the Chesham shuttle. The Gate stock would be an interesting one to do as we still have the gate end (back to first window) off a GNP&BR DM car that was going to be preserved, but would have been to expensive to restore after being a ballast motor. So how about using this a the basis for a new gate stock car for display in the LTM.

Or maybe a complete train of Standard stock:

DM-T-CT-CT-T-NDM-DM

Considering that, although Acton depot have a few Standard stock cars, the ones at Acton Works that would enable a full train are in very poor condition, and look more like a sunken ship than a tube train.

...or DM-T-CT+CT-T-DM when first delivered

Eventually!

Did you know on the Bakerloo they often ran (nth) DM-DM-T-T-CT-T-DM (sth).

Why was this?

And that would mean there would be a spare 38TS trailer!
I think it would be a good idea to restore one or two standard stock trailers and put them in the preserved 60TS unit, and preserve 483 007 from the Isle of Wight (as it was part of the last 38TS train in service) and make a 3-car unit of 38TS.

Good call re. preserving 38 set 007. Weren't they two of the DMs that were allocated to LNER ownership before the war?

If only the COP stock cars at Quainton Road could be 'repatriated' to LT metals and restored to running order before open storage finally finishes them off. Of course in Berlin or New York a train of 1930s flared rolling stock would have been retained in working order by the company, that's a given. However wonderful 'Sarah' looks, and the associated re-liveried, ehem, 4-TC set, that's not typical of LT Railways operation as experienced by the majority of Londoners over the years and never will be. The CO/CPs were the surface version of the 1938TS and one unit should have been kept. They could also have operated over the entire surface network too without restriction, something which will never apply to any A Stock in the future. If only some Russion billionaire would taken an interest in LU railway preservation!

I wonder what top speed the F stock could have gone to? Did they have a weak field switch?

Re the CO/CP stock; it would be fantastic if the Quainton unit could be made operational again. As discussed before there is a spare CP car around too. If this could be combined with the R38 car (at Magnapps) which could be reconverted to Q stock and then turned into a CP DM we would have a 5 car, 2 compressor train! Bear in mind that when the Island line 38ts go in however many years there will be a supply of pcm and compressors! If the museum 38 and the CO/CP stock equipment could be partly standardised it would make life easier. Remember, cars 13056-14056-13197-14197 were fitted with spare 38ts pcm in 1955 as a trail.