I hadn't been really following the thread, but what are those cars doing
there?

Actually, I had heard that they are 86ts, and that they are London
Underground's little secret as they ran on the Jubilee line only for about a
year, but they really didn't work out.

As for the graffiti, is this rather recent? I ask, because I first passed by
them in a car last October, but I don't recall seeing any graffiti at that
time.

Incidentally, one of the cab doors was open. I only caught a glimpse, but
the colour of it and the fuse box array made me think that the cabs on those
trains was very similar to what you would see on D stock trains.

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Richard J. writes

Given some of the how-the-hell-did-they-get-there type places
we've all seen graffiti I suspect it won't be too much of a
challenge for them

Well, it was easy enough the first time. Those cars were newly
painted when they were placed on the viaduct, and the graffiti
appeared very soon afterwards.

From the pictures I saw, they were very much in the same condition
they left Uxbridge sidings in - a bit grimy but bare metal and
mostly no graffiti, although there was a little.

Yes, "newly painted" was wrong, I now realise. The comparison that I
remembered was of http://tinyurl.com/38mycq taken on 20 August 2006, with
no graffiti visible, and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jono01/240863962/ taken on 10 September 2006.
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