jdb74
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Post by jdb74 on Mar 27, 2021 11:25:03 GMT
Being a ex employee of Morden 1968-1976 Im writing a book for a friend and would like to know please when was the first 1938 stock entered service at Morden, and when was the last and very much a lot more. Im now 74 and my brain is fading fast. I remember fondly my motorman Charlie Grant many a driving trips with him, then driver Philip Rattle, and chaps I knew then names I don't. So would anyone with their underground stories like to appear in ClickityClack if admin doesn't mind my email is david464u@icloud.com and my website www.jdbbooklets.org.uk as I fund raise for MNDA. I loved the tube I dont know why I left. We used to live in Sutton now we live in Norfolk but mysoftness is still the underground. The new trains now are armchair drivers and dont know what a temperamental deadman feels like or the brake handle. I loved the feel of getting the ding then you wound her up and the trundle over the points in platform 5 and the tunnel downhill to South Wimbledon and the old 38s moved. <<superteacher>>: Post moved here to create new thread. |
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Post by superteacher on Mar 28, 2021 11:23:14 GMT
Being a ex employee of Morden 1968-1976 Im writing a book for a friend and would like to know please when was the first 1938 stock entered service at Morden, and when was the last and very much a lot more. Im now 74 and my brain is fading fast. I remember fondly my motorman Charlie Grant many a driving trips with him, then driver Philip Rattle, and chaps I knew then names I don't. So would anyone with their underground stories like to appear in ClickityClack if admin doesn't mind my email is david464u@icloud.com and my website www.jdbbooklets.org.uk as I fund raise for MNDA. I loved the tube I dont know why I left. We used to live in Sutton now we live in Norfolk but mysoftness is still the underground. The new trains now are armchair drivers and dont know what a temperamental deadman feels like or the brake handle. I loved the feel of getting the ding then you wound her up and the trundle over the points in platform 5 and the tunnel downhill to South Wimbledon and the old 38s moved. <<superteacher>>: Post moved here to create new thread.From the excellent book on the 1938 Tube Stock by Piers Connor, the first 1938 train entered service in June 1938. I can't recall if it mentioned that depot it came from, although I suspect it was Golders Green. |
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Post by selbiehouse on Mar 29, 2021 17:22:56 GMT
Brian Hardy, in Underground Train File - Tube Stock 1933-59 states 30th June 1938 for the first seven car set but no mention of depot. I would agree that it's probably Golders Green.
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Post by Chris L on Mar 29, 2021 19:44:41 GMT
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Post by spsmiler on Mar 30, 2021 20:02:49 GMT
re: the last journey of 1938ts, I wonder if the date of the 1990 Morden depot open day would be the last day that these trains carried passengers here?
On this day what by then had become the heritage 1938ts train carried passengers between Morden station and depot - this being a special service and a journey that passengers would not normally be expected (or welcomed) on as part of the normal day to day service.
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