David Biddulph wrote:
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The very last "normal" journey is the 2337 ex North Woolwich on
Friday. A special will run the next day for invited guests only; the
gen says that the special will be run by 313101, possibly to be
named "Silvertown".
Is that really right? On the Silverlink website, it says:
"The Stratford-North Woolwich service, currently operated by
Silverlink Metro, will be withdrawn with effect from Sunday 10
December 2006."
I make it that the last train would therefore be 23:36 Sunday night.
Do you have a more "inside" source of information 
http://www.silverlink-trains.com/tem...le.aspx?id=752
Not an "inside" source, but Sunday 10th is the first day of the *new*
timetable [without a service to North Woolwich.] The last day of the
old service is Saturday 9th, with the last service at 23:37.
Confirmed by
http://www.silverlink-trains.com/upl...0v04a%20aw.pdf
(linked from the page you quoted, Jason).
[The special is on the Sunday, I believe.]
If you find out more the time of the special, please post it here.
This from the Silverlink Yahoo list:
"On Sunday 10th December at 11.15 at Stratford station, platform 2, to mark
160 years of the North Woolwich rail service a silverlink train will be
named "Silvertown" and then make the last silverlink journey to North
Woolwich."
and
"The train will *NOT* be in public passenger service. It will be by
invitation only and media/press."
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David Biddulph
Is this a new fashion for railway closures? I notice they also did
this with the Shoreditch closure - making the last train a special by
invitation only and keeping us 'plebs' out.
Presumably they're celebrating it because, like Shoreditch, part of the
route will re-open in a new guise.
They didn't bother celebrating the (Jubilee) Charing Cross closure like
this. I believe I may have been on the last train. Not deliberately -
I was just there late that night and needed a train but when I got to
the platform there was a photographer and a few LUL managers posing.
Not many other passengers though!