Now withdrawn LU C stock trains, 2011-2014


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/S/Stepney_Green'>Stepney Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Whitechapel_and_Bow_Railway_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway_and_District_Railway'>Whitechapel and Bow Railway (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and District Railway)</a></small></p><p>A grubby LUL C stock train at Stepney Green, departing with a Hammersmith & City Line short working from Baker Street to Barking, on 15th October 2011. These trains were withdrawn in 2014, removing the London Undergrounds final link in terms of train operation with the 1960s. 1/14</p><p>15/10/2011<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tower_Hill'>Tower Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/A/Aldgate_-_Mansion_House:_City_Lines_and_Extensions_Metropolitan_Railway_and_Metropolitan_and_District_Railway_Joint'>Aldgate - Mansion House: City Lines and Extensions (Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan and District Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>Now withdrawn LUL C stock train on a clockwise Circle Line service at Tower Hill station, which will head away from the camera when it departs, on 29th June 2012. This station opened in February 1967 on the site of the short-lived Tower of London station that had existed only from 1882 to 1884 when it was replaced by Mark Lane station, renamed Tower Hill in 1946, with the completion of the Inner Circle Line which, in its turn, the new Tower Hill station replaced. I vividly recall using the old Tower Hill station lots of times when a boy, usually on trips with my parents and brother from our home in Loughton, Essex to visit the Tower: Central Line to Mile End and then the rattly District Line which was very atmospheric in those days, as was Tower Hill station, almost as dark as a crypt. It is still possible to discern the site of the eastbound platform of the old station from a passing train, the westbound platform was demolished to make way for a new track layout. 2/14</p><p>29/06/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Aldgate'>Aldgate</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>LU C stock (now withdrawn) on a clockwise Circle Line service departing from the atmospheric Aldgate station, opened in 1876, on 10th January 2013. This was the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the World's First Underground line, the Metropolitan Railway from Bishops Road, Paddington to Farringdon Street (renamed Farringdon & High Holborn in 1922 and further renamed to simply Farringdon in 1936). 3/14</p><p>10/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Edgware_Road'>Edgware Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Three grubby LUL C stock trains (now withdrawn) at Edgware Road on 10th January 2013, the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Metropolitan Railway although the present station here is a rebuild dating from 1925. On the outsides are two Circle Line trains and in the middle a District Line train to Wimbledon. 4/14</p><p>10/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Edgware_Road'>Edgware Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Fast approaching the end of their days, and each in a grubby condition, three now withdrawn LU C stock trains are seen at Edgware Road station on 13th January 2013. This stock, the Underground's final link with the 1960s, was withdrawn from service the following year. 5/14</p><p>13/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Great_Portland_Street'>Great Portland Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>A scene on the world's first Underground, the Metropolitan Railway, with a now withdrawn train of LUL C69 stock on a Hammersmith & City Line service to Barking departing from Great Portland Street station, while just above outside in the street heavy snow was falling, on 20th January 2013. Wikipaedia, like most Londoners, insists on calling the sub-surface lines 'tubes' which is quite incorrect. It was only when the deep-level lines that were bored through the clay came into being, starting with the City & South London Railway (now part of the Northern Line) in 1890, that the word 'tube' was coined but that term is now applied, very wrongly, to the entire London Underground network. 6/14</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Plaistow'>Plaistow</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Campbell_Road_to_Barking_Quadrupling_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Campbell Road to Barking Quadrupling (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL C stock, on a Hammersmith & City Line service from Barking to Hammersmith via Paddington, departing from Plaistow station in east London, also served by LUL District Line trains, on 5th February 2013. To the right are the disused platforms, closed in 1962, on the C2C line from Fenchurch Street to Tilbury and Shoeburyness. The C stock trains were withdrawn from service in 2014, severing the London Underground's final link with the 1960s. 7/14</p><p>05/02/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Westminster'>Westminster</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_District_Railway'>Metropolitan District Railway</a></small></p><p>Now withdrawn LUL C stock on a clockwise Circle Line service calling at Westminster on 15th June 2013. This station opened as Westminster Bridge on Christmas Eve 1868 and was the temporary terminus of the Metropolitan District Railway until 30th May 1870 when it was extended to Blackfriars. It was renamed simply Westminster in 1907 and was completely rebuilt in the 1990s to accommodate the Jubilee Line Extension that opened deep below in 1999. 8/14</p><p>15/06/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Farringdon'>Farringdon</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Now withdrawn LUL C stock, on a clockwise Circle Line service, arriving at Farringdon station on a scorching hot 13th July 2013. This station was the original terminus of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first Underground line, opened on 10th January 1863 as Farringdon Street and renamed Farringdon & High Holborn in 1923 before becoming simply Farringdon in 1936. The station is actually in the district of Clerkenwell and there have been many suggestions over the years that it should be renamed so, but so far to no avail. 9/14</p><p>13/07/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Earls_Court_Metro'>Earl's Court [Metro]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_District_Railway'>Metropolitan District Railway</a></small></p><p>Now withdrawn LU C stock on a District Line service from Wimbledon to Edgware Road heading away from the camera as it departs from Earl's Court, on 9th August 2013. This station opened in 1878, replacing an earlier station of 1871, and since 1940 has been served exclusively by District Line trains but until then it was also served by LMS electric trains to and from Willesden Junction. Below are the deep-level Piccadilly Line platforms, opened in 1906. Note the arrow train indicator blind, once seen at stations all over the District Line system but now only seen here. 10/14</p><p>09/08/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/High_Street_Kensington'>High Street Kensington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>LU C stock (now withdrawn) with a District Line service from Wimbledon to Edgware Road arriving at High Street Kensington station on 9th November 2013. This station was originally opened by the Metropolitan Railway with the line from Praed Street junction, Paddington to South Kensington on 1st October 1868 but has for very many years now been served by District and Circle Line trains. 11/14</p><p>09/11/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Fulham_Broadway'>Fulham Broadway</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Putney_Bridge_Branch_Metropolitan_District_Railway'>Putney Bridge Branch (Metropolitan District Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL C stock on a District Line service from Wimbledon to Edgware Road just departed from Fulham Broadway on 18th January 2014. This station was opened with the extension of the District Line from West Brompton to Putney Bridge as Walham Green on 1st March 1880 and renamed Fulham Broadway 72 years to the day later in 1952. The C stock trains were finally withdrawn from service six months after this photo was taken. 12/14</p><p>18/01/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southfields'>Southfields</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wimbledon_and_Putney_Line_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Wimbledon and Putney Line (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL C stock train (now withdrawn) 5594, with a District Line service to Wimbledon at Southfields on 31st May 2014. This was the final year that three separate forms of LUL electric traction, C stock, D78 and S7, could all be seen on the Wimbledon branch of the District Line, now the S7s rule the rails. 13/14</p><p>31/05/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southfields'>Southfields</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wimbledon_and_Putney_Line_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Wimbledon and Putney Line (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>A scene at Southfields, on the Wimbledon branch of the District Line, that can now never be repeated, following the withdrawal of the C and D78 stock trains. On the left a C stock departs for Wimbledon while on the right a D78 stock arrives for Edgware Road on 31st May 2014. 14/14</p><p>31/05/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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