The word is that the fleet of new S stock trains delivered over the past year to replace the iconic MET 1960s A stock will all be required to return to Derby for 'attention'. Rumours included cracked bogies but it now seems that their 'wiring looms are not MET compatible', whatever that means! The wonders of modern technology! Sadly there is more than enough S stock to compensate for this recall so the few surviving A stock sets will not be required on active service and are now rarely escaping from Neasden. Yesterday the LT Museum announced the A Stock Farewell Tour, planned for Sunday 29th September. The end of an era.
I snapped this unit at Harrow on the Hill earlier this month, now a very rare sighting.
PS These are older than the Rolling Stones...just!
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