1938 tube stock in Action - February 2019

The heritage / vintage preserved 1938 tube stock train in action, seen at Baker Street, Moorgate, Kings Cross St Pancras and Ealing Common stations.

Footage at Moorgate was taken during the lunch break and includes S stock trains.

Ealing Common station is where the railtour ended and the footage includes the train opening and closing its doors plus the disc signal for trains entering the depot.

This will probably be the last time that this train travels on the subsurface Underground routes through Central London as they are about to be converted to computerised train operations and it will not be financially viable for this train to have the required equipment fitted (estimated cost: a whopping £1 million!)

However it will be able to operate on the Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines as they have not been converted to computerised train control and also the Metropolitan Line between Amersham and Harrow-on-The-Hill which is shared with trains operated by Chiltern Railways out of London's Marylebone station and as such remains as one of the last surviving jointly operated railway services here in the UK.