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[email protected] · April 24th 12, 06:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:47:46 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 13:13:46 on
Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Recliner remarked:
All the A stock trains were either 4 or 8-car (no 3-car units). I seem
to recall that the 4-car double-ended unit trains ran mainly at
weekends (in the 1970s, I lived in a flat that had a distant view of
the Met line).

I used A-stock to get to London and back (often outside normal commuting
hours) in the 90's, and don't recall ever seeing a short unit.

I think 4-car usage stopped by then on the mainline (ie, excluding the
Chesham shuttle and ELL). Uncoupling went out of fashion on LU by the
1980s.

Nevertheless, when the A stock was refurbished, most had only one cab
modernised with the other becoming disused. Some double-ended units, with
both cabs remaining usable, were created in similar fashion to the D stock
which is a mix, mainly of three car units with one cab at one end but with a
few units with driving cars at both ends.

While some of the double cab A stock units were used on the Chesham shuttle
and East London Line services, most were run as part of 8-car trains on the
Met main line. I saw one last time I was at King's Cross last week. I don't
think the double-cab D stock units have ever been run on their own in
passenger service.

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Colin Rosenstiel