On 2017\04\24 02:23, wrote:
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september.org, (Recliner) wrote:

Apparently this Frday (21st) will be the last for the D-stock in normal
service in London. I believe there will be a farewell tour on 7 May.

Indeed so. A working timetable diagram has been announced but not
confirmed. It starts at Upminster at 0624 with runs to Richmond and
back arriving at Upminster at 1623, departing 1635 to Ealing Broadway
at 1812. I fear we won't know if it's actually running then on Friday
morning.

Well, as no doubt many here know by now, it did run as train 4 as planned. I
joined it a bit after 12:23 at Aldgate East eastbound, as did 3 others (not
hard to spot people waiting on the platform :-)). I then rode it to
Upminster, back to Richmond, back to Upminster and from there to Ealing
Broadway. It got pretty crowded at the front at times! Before I joined it,
it had accumulated 20 minutes of delays and been turned short at Gunnersbury
on the westbound trip before the eastbound I joined.

We got a bonus rare track move when the final run was put through the West
Ham siding westbound to allow trains (3 in the end) to pass us to presumably
avoid it to get too crowded. That siding has a diagrammed H&C working but
only eastbound. So few will have used the westbound crossovers to access it.

My photos and videos can be found at
https://1drv.ms/f/s!Ala9fuC_-7GhrvVNsBl24rZh7CLVOw.

The May 7 tour tickets went on sale only this morning and are almost
sold out, despite costing £50, with space in only one car of six
still available.

All gone now.

I also got the chance to travel on the Circle on Saturday while it was
running as a real circle again this weekend.


Do you know how long it is taking to go around? Is there a four minute
wait at Edgware Road?