Depot Discoveries - R49 Stock
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- London Transport Museum's Depot in Acton is a treasure trove of vehicles, objects and artworks galore. As the site is a working store, adding labels or other forms of permanent interpretation to objects on display is a challenge as things are moved around or used by curators on a regular basis.
Community curator Jen Kavanagh has been working in partnership with the Museum's Friends and volunteers to trial out a new form of interpretation. Named 'Depot Discoveries', the project aims to capture on camera interesting stories and professional knowledge about a range of items in our collection. These videos will then be accessible at the Depot via QR codes on small labels. We hope to roll the project out to a range of objects in the coming months.
In this film, Tom Cavanagh shares his knowledge of the R49 Stock tube train. Filming and editing by Geoff Marshall.
Just so beautiful. The windows are always astonishing, and the flared bottom.
Seriously, future stock builders should be REQUIRED to outwardly replicate the greats of Yesteryear.
Brings back many good memories of working as a guard then motorman on that unit, proper trains.
Those were a lovely practical design, screamed art deco at you. Was lucky enough to work on these beauties at the end of their lives. The R49 driving cars numbered only 6, the others being Non-Driving Motors. It's a great pity that a unit no longer exists for the odd run, like the 1938 tube cars do.
R49 was used on many sub-surface lines, 1938 stock survived 50 years between 1938 and 1988, i wish that 1938 stock could be refurbished to announcements, that could extend its lifespan
I miss riding those beauts SO much.. .. . .
As a young lad at Hornchurch station, we used to wait for a "red one" CO/CP Stock to arrive. Then one day, it was all these. Then the D78s. Now the S stock. I suppose that makes me an old fart.
Yeah, I used to go to my nans at Upney or my aunt's in Hornchurch in these. The pointwork just west outside Barking where the train flyover is was so complicated the fluorescent lights in the cars always went out over that section of track, leaving only the dimly lit backup incandescent emergency lights at the car ends remaining alight. I always preferred the CO/CP's too myself! As kids we liked to play the White, Silver or Red game trying to guess what colour train we'd get at Aldgate East after changing from and Hammersmith and City train there. Good old memories!
@@timhubbard8895 Cheers Tim. I had an aunt and uncle in Upney, both sets of grandparents in Becontree, and another aunt and uncle in Barking. Happy days.
1:08 - I think he means, "bird nests".
If my tube knowledge serves me correctly, I think the flared arches were shared with the O Stock? It looks great in the unpainted Aluminium livery though, the best design that the trains had, although of course it had to go as graffiti hit them badly.
I used to ride those and the COCP red stock long before the D78’s, those stocks were built to last, and much better than today’s lightweight S7 and S8 stock.
Isn't that a Respiratory Illness?
S7 and S8 stock all the way
@@RedArrow73 No. class specification.
@@damienmanu117 Cutting corners with standardised wheel sets.
I WANT TO WORK THERE!!!!!
Currently Tokyo Metro is the Only Metro Network in the World Who Shares the Memories of 1st Rolling Stock Operated On Ginza (1000 Series [*] 1927-1968) & Marunouchi Lines (500 Series [*] 1954-1996). The 1000 Series Introduced in 2012 On the Ginza Line Were Constructed to Evoke the Design of the 1000 Series Introduced in the 1920s when Tokyo Underground Railway Was Opened. The Units 1139 & 1140 Are Resembling the Original 1000 Series Even More, Due to the Single Headlights & Retro Like Interior. Currently the 2000 Series Introduced on the Marunouchi Line Were Constructed To Evoke the Design Of the 500 Series Operated For 42 Years Since 1954. The 1000 & 2000 Series Themselfs Are To Resemble the 1st Rolling Stock Of Ginza & Marunouchi Lines When 1st Opened, But also with some Modern Touches. London Underground Unfortunately Doesn't Understand By Any Of it! If there Was Just One Manufacturer, That Could Make the Modern Tube Stock In the Future that Evokes The Design Of Older Rolling Stock Like the R49, Or A60/62, Then It Would Be Good. But For Now Londoners Have to Wait For Preservation of Older Units like the 83 Year Old Ex-38 Stock Used on the Island Line For 21 Years.
Withdrawal of the R stock commenced in the 1970s and in March 1983 it was time for the last sets to retire gracefully.
But I want to look insideeeeee
The vídeo is crear but You miss filming the boogies and interiores.
Interesting. Geoff Marshall would have spent 5 minutes telling me far less
he is wrong on why the sides were flared, it was nothing to do with people hanging on the sides. The stock was designed in the 1930s, and so it's just part of the art deco appearance.
@ Yellow hat - correct, it was an art deco design by the then CME of LT William Graff-Baker (1889 - 1952). The flare was to emphasise visual continuity beween the vehicle body sides and the platform surface.
In NYC, the BMT rebuilt some of its elevated trains but with flayed walls curving out side for the eastern half that was built to also handle wider subway trains that share the same tracks from East New York to Richmond Hill terminal at Lefferts Blvd.
that window at 1:17 looks terrible
far to brief.