On Jul 1, 12:59*am, "
wrote:
Read on Wikipedia that Saturday was the A stock's last day of revenue
service. Can anybody confirm?


According to the District Dave forum - the best place for this kind of
info - saturday was the first S8-only day, which isnt the same thing
especially as there was engineering work reducing the number of trains
required. I dont think the date of their full withdrawal is known yet,
there's been talk of some being kept as cover during the Olympics and
the LTM friends site has a (provisional) date in September pencilled
in for the farewell train.

When it comes to their preservation, apparently the plan was to keep
two railhead treatment sets for sandite application and maintained for
occasional heritage train use and the LTM want to preserve a unit too.
Hopefully that remains the case.

Chris