"Bill Hayles" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:31:50 +0100, "redtube"
wrote:

Did any of our older members on this ng ever, and I mean ever, travel "in
service" on a "standard stock" Pre'38?

Many, many times. Why, particularly, do you ask?

The reason is because there will undoubtably be fewer ppl and more of them
dwindling as the years go by now that ever did travel on them on the London
Underground, I have now added, and I wanted to hear of their memories of the
time. Perhaps not so interesting to younger members here.






I recall as a 11 year old in 1959 a weekend holiday from Liverpool up
north
(where I was brought up) to London and my first ride on the London
Underground at Queensway Station using Tube Rover Tickets.

the terminus, such as Epping as I did on my Tube Rover ticket (not
allowed past Debden)

I don't know where you get that from.

Well I still stand by my thoughts on that Bill. I feel sure they were not
allowed to be used east of Debden and THAT would have included the infamous
Epping-Ongar shuttle at the time.

Did you ever get to ride on the TBWTKB (Acton Town to South Acton,
aka the Acton Ginny), or had that already closed?
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Bill Hayles

No Bill I hadnt even noticed the South Acton Shuttle as a kid visiting
London in those days, as my time spent was extremely short lived, only two
days over the weekend as I had to get back up to Liverpool. I concentrated
mainly on tube stock. Funnily I have in front of me right now an old LURS
mag that shows the 'acton ginny' on its front cover (in black & white of
course). It says the shuttle made its final journey on 28 Feb 1959. It used
two G class motors converted in 1940 from other driving ends. Another
interesting thing was the service operated as OPO! as part of the normal
District Line operating roster, the guard sat at Acton Town spare.
Maybe it had closed the year I came to London (1959) as it seems about right

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regards, Redtube