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[email protected] · May 11th 09, 12:59 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Tony Polson) wrote:

Yes, they started off with 1929 "Standard" Stock,

The Standard stock was built between 1923 and 1934. The IOW stock covered
the whole date range, meaning that the oldest cars were 66 years old when
finally replaced by 1938 stock. That has now reached an even greater age
of course.

In both cases they waited till after the bulk of the stock had been
withdrawn before deciding to send it to the Island. This meant that much
of the Standard stock came from the Northern City Line, now part of the GN
suburban system, because that was where the stock last ran in LT service.
So lots of better 1930s-built stock was scrapped before it could be sent
to the island and they had an amazing number of control trailers and
demobbed control trailers, because the Northern City had loads of them
while the Piccadilly and Central had had very few.

There was even less 1938 stock around when it was needed but the Island
got far less stock than had been provided in 1967. Today's 2-car units
compare with 3- and 4-car units formed into 7 car trains in the past.

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Colin Rosenstiel