Acton
Depot,
4th April 2008
The Institution held a seminar at the London
Transport Museum Depot at Acton.
The pictures below where taken during our
guided tour of the depot.
Text and pictures by Tom Chaffin (c)
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images for larger view:
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The London Transport Museum and London
Transport Friends are committed to a joint project to restore to operational
condition a four car train of Q stock.
In this
image Q38 driving motor car 4416 is shown , which was built on 1938 and
withdrawn in 1971, later used as an engineer's pilot car. |
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Exterior of Q35 trailer care 08063, built in 1936.
This car was donated to the museum in 1997 by the London Underground Railway
Society whose members had undertaken some restoration. |
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Interior
of Q35 trailer care 08063. Note the clerestory
roof. |
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In
rather a contrast to the last picture, the interior of Gloucester Railway
Carriage and Wagon company driving motor car 4184 - in need of a good deal
of restoration. This coach was built on 1923. |
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Q stock cab - brake valve on left hand
side and power controller in the centre. |
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Master
controller in Q stock cab with cover removed. |
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1938
Stock |
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1938
stock saloon interior |
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A
Standard stock driver motor, previously in departmental use. |
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Standard
Stock interior - with a mishmash of seat coverings. |
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Waterloo
& City Line Driver Motor dating from 1940. |
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1972 mk
1 stock saloon interior (as ran on the Northern line) in original un-refurbished condition.
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A side
view of 1983 stock driver motor 3734. The
1983 stock, which spent it short life on the Jubilee Line, was not a
success. As well as various electrical/mechanical/structural
problems, one of the reasons for the downfall of the class was the
mid-carriage single-leaf doors, clearly seen here, which
extended station dwell times due to the time it took passengers to join and
alight from the carriages through the relatively narrow door openings. |
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1983
Stock saloon interior - but they didn't run in service with a
box of spare fluorescent tubes in the vestibule!
These were the last London Underground carriages built
with Maplewood floor and strap-hangers. The use of 'mustard'
(officially called turmeric) coloured laminate for many surfaces is possibly
a questionable design choice, as are the ugly ceiling fan housings! |
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1983
Stock cab interior. Note combined power/brake
controller on right hand side - now standard in all new stock, these where
the first tube trains to have these installed, after previously being used
in the D78 underground trains. |
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This
rather unusual view shows in 1983 stock inter-car coupling, connected at one
end to driver motor 3734 and not connected at the other end. |
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The cab
front of the green Metro-Cammell 'C' train - this is the driver motor from a
two-car prototype built in 1987 which ran in passenger service on the
Jubilee line from May 1988 to August 1989 alongside the
red Metro-Cammel 'A' train and blue BREL-built 'B' train, all now scrapped.
In the floor ground are various passenger-operated
'single-fare' ticket machines. |
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The,at the time, revolutionary interior interior of
the 'C' train (the 1983 stock interior, see above, with it's traditional
wooden floor, proceeded this) - principles from this design were
incorporated in the subsequent 1992 stock on the central line. |
