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Last unpainted D Stock (last "silver" Underground train)
Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , () wrote: The last unrefurbished D Stock train is scheduled to operate on the District Line on 21st February 2007. This will bring to an end the era of unpainted aluminium UndergrounD trains which first began in 1949 (and also on the District Line with the R49 Stock). Shame! In fact the first unpainted train entered service in 1952. The original trial was of just one R49 car. I don't think that was as early as 1949 either. The R stock is another case of the years in the stock codes representing more aspiration than fact. The programme to switch all R stock trains to silver (mostly painted) wasn't completed until 1965. But that wasn't the end of red trains on the District. I had to check my memory that the Edgware Road to Putney Bridge trains were always red. These were a different sort of stock (O/P) - but apart from the colour they looked almost identical from the outside. They seem to have stayed red until withdrawn when the C77 stock came in (around 1979-80, it appears). Colin McKenzie -- No-one has ever proved that cycle helmets make cycling any safer at the population level, and anyway cycling is about as safe per mile as walking. Make an informed choice - visit www.cyclehelmets.org. |
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