London Banter - View Single Post - First passenger service journey for LUL 09 stock

[email protected] · July 29th 09, 06:40 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(MIG) wrote:

On 28 July, 21:48, wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:13:29 -0700 (PDT), Andy
wrote:

On 28 July, 15:06, Clive wrote:
In message , Tony Dragon
writes
God, your making me feel my age, I can remember the 'Q' stock
on the District,

So can I. * I can also remember tube stock where the first half of
the driving car was taken up with equipment which went under floor
in 38 stock, but I can't remember what they were called.

Usually called Standard Stock, although they were anything but
standard, being build from 1923 - 1934 with many detail differences!!
Sometimes referred also referred to as 1923 Stock.

You don't really need to be too old though to remember the other tube
stock with an equipment compartment above the floor though.Many will
have traveled on the Waterloo and City stock delivered in 1940 which
ran until 1993 giving another generation the chance to see stock so
laid out plus the bonus of some still having Southern Railway identity
depicted on ventilation grilles.
*Presumably the Southern had its reasons for sticking with such an
arrangement while the contempary LT 1938 stock was already under
construction and the underfloor concept had been found satisfactory
with *1935 stock trial. *
Would have thought any chance to get more passenger space on the Drain
would have been seized eagerly.

I think the point was that the 1940 stock used standard 4-SUB motor bogies.

I thought that a bit of the passenger space was still taken up in the
1935 stock, but not the 1938 (although there was quite a big bulge in
the floor).

No. The 1935 prototypes were the first with underfloor control gear.

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Colin Rosenstiel