Last 1938 tube train on London Underground - 1988
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มี.ค. 2011
- The very last 1938 tube stock train in passenger service on the London Underground. On the final journey (Edgware to Morden on the Northern line) the train was unable to get the doors closed pilot light, but still struggled on towards Morden.
All footage here by NHG Mitchell.
Great video! I remember the 1938 stock when I was very young in the 1970's, Managed to get a ride on some when they came back to the Northern from 1986 - 1988. Pilot light lost - they would never have allowed it to continue with passengers in this day and age!
That was great. Takes me back. Thanks a million!
Thanks for sharing this bit of history.
I wish you hadn't turned TH-cam's anti shake thingy on though, because watching this video reminds me of catching the tube after being out on the lash... 😉
Yes. It runs occasionally on special trips such as on the Metropolitan line last year.
Excellent posting thanks for sharing it. The driving motor coaches of the five trains that survived are (I think) the ones that are still to this day running on the Isle of Wight. LT called them the "Starlight Express" units I believe!
We are lucky to still have a complete working 4-car unit of this stock preserved. It's next outing will be on the Piccadilly and District Lines on Sunday June 19th 2011
Gosh the Art Deco style of 1938 stock ,the corporate vision for London transport pre war ,architecture ,driven by Sir frank pick and just the sound of the train set accelerating away ,the guards panel ,where dis all that go!,
for me 1938 stock will always be THE London Underground stock, travelled on them every day Queens Park to Oxford Circus August 1982 to Jan 1983
Great!
You have some great content on your channel and I have enjoyed a lot of your videos, especially this one so I thought I would leave you a comment to express this.
It does and thank you. Explains why I found them with no waiting around. And I did have the good fortune to try out the 1927 stock on an earlier trip. UK and Japan, where railfans go when they want to go to heaven.
1938 Tube Stock
I was very lucky to have had a visit to London in 1988 and quite unexpectedly found these still running. I believe they had been withdrawn to reserve status and then put back for the final two years. I would like to know the exact details of that, if possible. Thanks for posting, as I know first hand what a chore it is to do so.
Trainluvr withdrawn from the Bakerloo then returned to the Northern Line some months later when they realised that the ambitious new working time table (WTT) required more sets (Trains) than they had available. Given that traincrew initial training up to that point had been largely based on 38stock (before moving onto line specific stock after passing your grade at Railway Training Centre), it was easy to bring these sets back into operation as they were largely identical to the 56/59/62 stocks already in use on that line - looking back it was a mongrel fleet, I almost managed driving all of the “old” stocks on one duty, taking a 56 out of Morden to High Barnet preparing a 62 there and working that till grub break at Camden then picking up a 38 on the second half (was “SMI” on the second half (meaning “work to station managers instructions”) aka “spare”j. Worked the 38 to Kennington where it was taken on a a Kennington driver, and was going to knock an early driver off at Kenn S/bound and take his train back to Morden but one of the Kennington spares who lived down beyond Morden was finishing so he took the 59 that turned up, which meant I travelled on the Cush to Stockwell and went home😁
@bommmmmmmm Yes we were somewhat less under surveillance back then. Scary to think what it may be like 20 years hence!
I used to regularly use the old trains on the Northern Line in the early 70's and I am sure they had little old, dim light bulb fittings...I don't remember the lights on this vodeo. The trains were red but I seem to recall the occasional green one...or am I imagining that?
@hihat101 Well yeah, nice train to vid! However, is possible found is London Transport museum in Coven Garden for London. There will still usual oldest railway from 1960's and 1980's I think that lots information down there really. Anyway, is very interesting classic local underground trains service to ride them! Is awful train stock has problem of noisy brake on a train aren't you know!!!
I was on the one to camden,they had mannequins on board dressed in 50s clothing :-)
Yes, 1938 tube stock is currently running on the 'Island line' service as part of South West Trains
looks like they lost the pilot light!
And everyone is chatting away with each other. Nobody is pressing a phone to their ears. Looks like more fun
@trainluvr The 1938 stock ran on London's Bakerloo line until Nov 1985, then in 1986 almost a year later five of them made a come-back on the Northern line where they had run many years earlier. This was done due to serious overcrowding on that line. So they ran for a bit under two years again on the Northern line. I think several of these were then transferred to run on the Isle of Wight, replacing 1927 Standard stock there. Hope this helps!
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@NESTABROWN9 , that would would be the brake shoes which are no longer found of that type on the underground anymore, it goes with the train, its whole sound and character!
Got there money's worth with that train..lol
Sigma 4 back then stuff was built to last... now it’s form over function... it has to be shiney shiney and over complicated. I doubt modern stocks will last as well.
Interesting film. You can tell this was filmed in what is now a bygone time. Sadly, If you tried filming that today the random strangers would have objected, you would automatically be suspected of being a pervert for pointing the camera in the direction of the teenage girl @9.09 or the pixel police would have been on your back over ‘security issues’
@hakc97isback I think it could be Kennington.
And if I'm also correct is the train service on the Isle of Wight.
For my full videos of 1938 stock in glorious SD colour, check out the following playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLUQF7NyuZgcZ7_q-6N7l6Y9U8erSoZ2NF.html
Is this preserved?
Someone fiddling about that control buttons, is being railway done in troubled!!!
Pretty bad things service on that train. Because of failure brake of train for last time being accidents from history.
Shame it's not like this anymore. Remember these well, and the red CO/CP stock too, and now even the "silver" look that came with the 56TS has been gone for years. Happy days when LT had character, and people actually spoke to each other on the underground !
Nice railway, but too much noise of roll stock trains brakes.
I was there! Afterwards me & me mates repaired to a Young's pub on the South Bank with some memorabilia flogged by Morden staff. A drinker commented on my cab destination sign; we got talking about the passing of the things we admired. I mentioned Vulcans. He was Roly Falk's son (Dad was a Vulcan test pilot).
Dreadful......some of the most outrageous journeys in '38 stock were on Sundays around 9.0pm, Padd - Oxford Circus or Piccadilly. Hitting the platform at max. speed then a full brake application and the merry sound of mercury retarders.
Sheer entertainment, and free!
Nothing like it today.
Shame that coach 10306 ("Northern Lights") wasn't saved. LT scrapped it before anyone could do anything about it.
Handy Boy Dont forget the unmistakable rattle of the blow down magnet valves bleeding off excessive pressure in the brake cylinders used to hear that a lot back then
@hihat101 But is not quite welcome riding that train really, some people who knows that awful brakes of the trains. They wants ride by the train and what they people think surprise could worst of train has noisy brake or affecting being a technical problem!!!
Boring
What boring?
@@NESTABROWN9 Maybe she is?