Upminster Depot Open Day 1990

[@TheChicagoL]

I always wondered how the shoe for the the center contact rail was mounted (9:58). Now I see. In the States, most of the transit systems (or metros) use only an outside 3rd rail for traction current; none use a center return contact like the Tube. This video was right on time!!!

[@sludgegulper1]

Worked there 1972-1988. Great place, great staff :)

[@MetroTitanD78]

I've watched this video several times and i've only just noticed that im in it!! 10:40 im the boy climbing up onto the D stock with my mum,nan and sister watching. Later that day i got to drive the shuttle train to Upminster from the temporary platform with my nan standing behind me....not a bad day for a 7 year old.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

wow! thanks for commenting, I am still waiting for the day I see me in someone else's film.

[@staszekr03]

I look at you with envy and jealous eyes

[@MetroTitanD78]

I'm like that with anyone that was at the Chiswick and Aldenham open days in 1983.

[@TonyBanks21]

Lovely Day, They should hold another Open Day, and if I knew the day perhaps I would want to go myself !. Brilliant !.

[@glenatkinson7732]

Brilliant vid! Brings back memories of living in Dagenham and riding D Stock into Mile End every day.

[@limeyosu2000]

the 1986 experimental train is cool!

[@bowlerstuff9589]

There were 3.People had to choose which was good for the new central line trains(1992 Stock)

[@RPTVRegionalProduction]

Very cool and awesome indeed

[@viagensimagens]

One more great video, I love watching them. Good job!

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+viagensimagens Thanks :-)

[@RedArrow73]

What are called Q38 Stock are, to my eyes, the handsomest looking carriages seen here.

[@limeyosu2000]

That steam train at the beginning sounds like it is dragging those carriages!!😜

[@unknownartist7204]

I wonder why they didn't use the experimental 1986 tube stock. Has a cool design

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

They did - the red train formed much of the design prototype for the present day Central Line 1992 tube stock trains. For better, for worse.

[@unknownartist7204]

shame i wasn't born yet to travel on the full thing :P

[@NextSound170]

LT in it's prime, the days when it was a proud operation not just £££

[@AdamWebb1982]

Im half expecting me and my dad to walk past!

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Guessing the C Stock trains at Upminster, would later go back to Barking to start a Hammersmith and City line service back to Hammersmith?

[@alfiewhittaker3763]

a glimpse into the future

[@DavidFrankal]

Wow! Very Interesting!

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+David Frankal David, you may also like these films: The November 1990 Northern Line open day: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4ikq32snqaqqq8 Filmed the same day, a cab ride in a 1938 tube stock train travelling from Morden station to the depot. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5SxgZeHiZZ3aac Enjoy! Simon

[@DavidFrankal]

Thanks! I love the 1938 stock! They still run on the Island line, you know.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+David Frankal Yes, they are on the Island line. At least one of them was part of the fleet that was owned by the LNER, because of the never completed extension of tube trains over LNER suburban routes in north London.

[@sludgegulper1]

Miss that place :)

[@JeffreyOrnstein]

Awesome! Inspection pits R Fun!!

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+Jeffrey Ornstein It was interesting to be able to go down there but I was wary of hitting my head on anything and possible getting it dirty from anything on the underside of the train. Maybe the staff cleaned the train for us visitors.

[@ZENESTASCNE954321801]

WOW!!! What a find!!! ^_^

[@jacksugden8190]

I remember the Q stock in service, there was a silver version of the stock from another period, was there now a preserved D78 train now they had been sold on please?.

[@wgcameraman4650]

One D78 DM (Driving Motor) 7012 is officially preserved by the LT Museum at Acton, but another UNDM exists at Acton Depot for providing parts for the Q Stock restoration. Several vehicles were fitted out as a Rail-Adhesion Train for the Metropolitan Line, replacing the previously-used A Stock set. The rest were sold to Vivarail for their D Train projects. The silver stock derived from the Q stock that you are thinking of is R Stock. The first batch of these from 1938 were in fact rebuilt from Q38 stock trailer cars, and as such designated R38, which was different to the newly-built R49 stock delivered later.

[@lfewell2161]

The poster at 5.40 mentions new trains for the central line in 1960, new trains didn't arrive until a few years later with the 1962 stock. I know the 1960 stock was used from the mid sixties on the Woodford /Hainalt branch, but did the few trains actually enter service on the main part of the line in 1960?

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

I am not sure of the year but yes, they were used on the main part of the Central line, until being converted for automation and regulated to the branch line service.

[@MarioJPav]

Will something similar happen in 2016?

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+ Mariusz Pawlukowiec I will be happily surprised if it did.

[@SprattyHeath]

Curious question, was the traction current in the Depot isolated, because if it wasn't Health & safety would be a real risk.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

I assume that it was, as I cannot image it being left switched on. However I did not test the live rails myself - and I did not hear of anyone coming to harm from touching the live rails.

[@DANEBLUEGNOME]

What are you talking about risk???

[@hartstukken]

@@DANEBLUEGNOME of electrocution on the third rail

[@joelharris1335]

It is very rare to see a London Underground D stock train running in 3 car formation

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+Joel Harris Yes, but for a number of years 3 car double ended D srock trains were used on the East London Line. Alas I never thought to film it... big shame. Nowadays I know that such footage would have been of interest to many people.

[@joelharris1335]

+citytransportinfo WAIT, did YOU just say that 3 car D stock trains ran on the East London Line? Was it occasionally or were they in regular service with the A stock trains? Where they replaced by the A stock trains?

[@steved8193]

They replaced the A60/62 in 1985, and were re-replaced in 1987.

[@SharkVaderYT]

@@CitytransportInfoplus there is footage of it

[@thischannelisdisused5841]

Great video btw Is upminster depot open for a couple of weekends per year or just once a year

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+London buses and trains 123 Its hardly ever open; maybe once every 20 - 25 years!

[@thischannelisdisused5841]

citytransportinfo FUCKING HELL

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+London buses and trains 123 The London Transport Museum Acton Depot which is near Acton Town station usually opens several times a year. Typically spring and autumn. Plus there are sometimes other events there which can be visited by buying a ticket in advance. These links will explain more. www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/museum-depot/open-weekends www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/museum-depot/guided-tours

[@thischannelisdisused5841]

citytransportinfo alright

[@DjDenKot]

nice

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+Dj Den Kot Thanks :-)

[@alejandrayalanbowman367]

What a pity no Metropolitan slam-door stock.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+Alejandra y Alan Bowman It was elsewhere. In those days the nostalgia was different, especially for slam door trains as they were still very much in daily use on BR.

[@alejandrayalanbowman367]

But slam-door Underground trains must have gone out in the late 50s/early 60s. I remember riding on them in 1957

[@volvotrident4835]

Very nice the D stock livery and interior looked ugly..

[@owenchuarbx]

Interesting

[@RichardsAdventures]

Upminster 😯 intresting

[@steamingheavenh8114]

never did like the D stock trains

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

D stock trains date from a time when passenger numbers were in decline. When reading history books I saw that the F stock was so disliked (too spartan / austere inside) they had to be refurbished because passengers did not want to travel in them!

[@artoismta]

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[@TonyBanks21]

Lovely Day, They should hold another Open Day, and if I knew the day perhaps I would want to go myself !. Brilliant !.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

+Patrick Banks it would be nice, especially if the trains were running (the last open day was when weekend maintenance works saw the District Line service being withdrawn for the weekend)