Silver Tube Trains & More At Morden Stn

[@fransutton7257]

This is the morden station and tube stock i remember great to ride the northern line back then full of character

[@DezzaManezza154]

Oh how I miss the 1972 stock on the Northern Line :/

[@wimbledan]

A regular sound you hear growing up in Morden. The trains had character even if they were old and dirty. Glad the station hasn't changed and been made modern.

[@snubby4624]

Fancy seeing you here! 😆

[@wimbledan]

@@snubby4624 small world

[@senianns9522]

I liked Morden as a young teenager and was sad when my family moved away to the North East of England. 50 years later oh boy so glad my dad did that! never looked back!

[@la535lhx]

What a great video clip can remember Morden station in the late 80s early 90s when I used the service and thought how boring But wow how things have well changed over the years even the old ticket hall and phone numbers have changed Thank you for putting up 👍👍

[@peterg957]

Lived in Morden from 1955 -1963 residing at 71 Grasmere Avenue and attending Poplar Road School and then onto Garth Secondary... Happy Days...

[@1258-Eckhart]

Simon, you are a national treasure to have documented these things. In 200 years, you'll be up there with the venerable Bede, who documented anglosaxon England in similar manner.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

Thanks ! Yes, I can see what I've done for future (and even present-day) historians but at the same time I lament what I missed. There are some types of train which I really should have filmed more of and better (back in the 1970's). I also should have persevered with sound recording, although it was only in the mid 1980's when I got hold of a small cassette machine for sound recordings. Prior to that I had one of the massive 'ghetto blasters' which needed six (or even eight) D size batteries and weighed 'a lot'. This machine let me down when I tried recording sounds of passing trains. As an aside, I still have not had all my silent super 8 films digitised!

[@sarahsara3507]

Childhood memories

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

I believe they were going to keep the 1972mk1 running with the 1995 stock, convert them to driver only operation and extensive refurb and corporate paint job but that was too costly to do that. Incompatibility with new signalling system was also another deciding factor to scap the mk1s. After all, the 72mk1s were a quick build, seven car, manually operated crew version of the 1967 ex Victoria line stock, ordered quickly to help out the 1959 stock to operate all Northern line services as there were not enough 59 stock then. A few mk2s ran on the Northern line to cover the spare 59s that went to the Bakerloo line to provide temporary cover till the 72mk2 were transferred over from both the Northern and Jubilee lines

[@MannyAntipov]

It would be nice to see the 72TS running on the Northern line, but then later on (maybe this day) there would be a requirement of new trains to replace them, and to either run alongside the 95TS or to replace those too. Plus the 95TS wasn't rushed much. So a single form of rolling stock is easier. Perhaps if the Bakerloo line extension to Hayes was completed in the 90s and re-extended to Watford some Mk1s would've stood a chance...

[@lescalverley8335]

I remember it well, my first depot as a Northern line Motorman

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

The Northern line is supposed to be speeding up by as much as 18% as it is converted to automated operation. At present (April 2013) only the northern end of the High Barnet branch has been converted. I am yet to travel there and see for myself. Of course someone could ask why the trains ever had to be de-rated to just 60% of capability... so much passengers' time wasted by years of trains operating more slowly than need be.

[@295route]

The 1995 stock have been governed at 60% power since new and are still driven manually, unlike other lines like the Victoria, Jubille and Central lines which are at 100% under the ATO system. Once the Northen Line's siganals and tracks are updated (in stages) the 1995 stock will be faster. The Finchley to High Barnet section of the Northern Line had been done and the trains are now faster on that section.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

wow, thats a very hard question! I suppose Morden is the most interesting (because I filmed such a wide variety of films there - this being one of two films showing these trains), with Crouch End and Highgate (high level) being the saddest.

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

back in the day when the 59 and 72mk1 were running the game on the Northern Line.

[@svartmetall48]

As I was only a child during this time, I didn't pay attention to train frequency. Are there more trains per hour through each line these days, thus necessitating slowdown compared to the past, or is it just OSH guidelines getting in the way?

[@hakc97again]

What's the best bit of the Northern Line you've filmed?

[@philipmaguire9209]

Used to use it 80.s Belsize Park to Morden were I was born St Heliers Estate

[@SiVlog1989]

Amazing how comparatively little Morden station has changed (with the exception of the ghastly 1960's raft over the 1920's building). The biggest difference between now and its opening day in 1926 is the amount of traffic. Back then of course, Morden was just a rural backwater so there was initially no traffic

[@MannyAntipov]

I believe Morden tube station was designed to have a building built on top of it

[@SiVlog1989]

@@MannyAntipov in common with other stations, I believe that is the case, although Charles Holden would probably turn in his grave if he saw the garish 1960's office building on top of his 1920's station building

[@MannyAntipov]

Perhaps if the Bakerloo line extension to Hayes was completed in the 90s and re-extended to Watford some Mk1s would've stood a chance...

[@owenchuarbx]

All 1972/1 stocks on the Bakerloo Line?

[@agent_605]

No, they are 1972 mk2 stock trains from the Jubilee line. There are some converted mark ones, but very few. I believe the Mk1s have a higher pitch door closing alarm than the Mk2s

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Too costly to convert the mk1s to driver only operation and to refurbish to the mk2 standard was expensive hence only a few were done.

[@Raminator137]

When is morden having another depot open day?

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

Sorry, I have no idea when, or even if such an event has been thought of.

[@Raminator137]

Ah, Ok it just seems intresting. Do you know if they store the silver trains anymore or not?

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

wide variety of trains... not films! sorry!

[@alancleobury-jones9816]

That black oblong patch at 3.51 seconds in the videeo, is were the original ticket office was.

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

Thanks for that info. I saw it on the ground - its the right shape for a Passimeter.

[@Bloxed]

I live in morden

[@brauliamujica8480]

que tal es allá ????

[@LuperSoop69]

@@brauliamujica8480 speak English for once, everything is English here

[@philipmaguire9209]

Last train to Sutton United fc ..

[@stephthestar90]

Nice video. I would have been just a baby when this was filmed so I don't remember these trains on the Underground at all. I have been on the tube but I don't remember which trains I was on. I was on the District line a fair bit so I was probably on the D Stock and Piccadilly Line 1973TS. Never been on these ones though.

[@eisemanrenyardjake]

Don't worry, you weren't missing anything