London Underground-More 62 Stock & Central Line Guard 1994
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Another vid now showing Malcolm, the Central Line Guard. This time we see him in action at Leyton & Ruislip Gardens. Until 1984 all Underground lines had guards apart from the Victoria which opened as an automaticaly operated line from the start. In 1984 LT started to convert lines to OPO starting with the Hammersmith Met Line and finishing in 2000 with the Northern. The penultimate line to convert was the Central Line, and at the time this vid was made the 92 stock had arrived and the OPO conversion had started. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
Such lovely memories of travelling on those. The smells, the noises!
Yes, real mechanical sounds on this stock rather than today's high pitched whine!
Hello Soi. I have posted comments to you over the years. I have a question for you, am I right in thinking based on your name Soi that you are a ethnic minority person?.
Lastly are you a member of The London Underground Society?@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus
Mad to see my great uncle as a guard on the central line!
I can remember him when he was a guard on the District Line..... Lol Not forgetting a short spell on the Piccadilly as well.....
Now there's a face I recognise from the past! So many vids on UA-cam and pics on Facebook showing up now, with old colleagues on them. It's great to catch a glimpse of them on social media, so thanks for the post.
My pleasure. I'm told he gets great fun out being a UA-cam 'star'...lol........
I’m glad that there’s still a set of 62 stock still being used as a RAT on the Central. Reminds us of better days doesn’t it?
That so takes me back to the early sixties ,on the Piccadilly line from Arnos Grove to Kings cross ,I was only 10 but used to go to
Kings Cross trainspotting on my own ,never a consideration about being on your own at 10,different age now ,Health and Safety would have kittens about open doors while train still in motion,even used to go to Sunderland by train at 10 on my own ,mum and dad would put me on a train at kings cross ,near to where the guard was with a Packed lunch and drink and the preverbial Beano,my aunt picked me up at Newcastle Station ,the control panel always fascinated me ,did it have different coloured indicator lights ,my favourite stock was always the prewar 1938 stock ,the seats ,flooring and ceiling handles were fascinating.Happy Days ,71 now but the memories a,smell and sounds still resonate with me ,loved watching the tube coming into a station with that blast of warm air and noise and the rapid acceration andnoise away from the station👍
The Picc had 1959 stock, basically the same as the 62 stock seen here. I too used to lve watching the guard at work. I was none too pleased when the 73 stock came in and the guard was in the rear cab! I too used to roam around on my own in the 1970s, Red Bus Rovers at 7, Go-As-You-Please tickets at 9.... happy days......
Ahhh all good things come to an end eh?
That making the coffee was the highlight!!
A hot drink is alwaya a highlight for train crews!!! Plus there might be a bit more yet.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus A cup of tea nearby is great for working on stuff.
I’m a big fan of your channel Soi but these Central guard videos are my favourite. I worked with people on the C&H who have retired recently that remember Malcolm from years gone by
Thank you..... He is still going strong in retirement out in Essex.....
"C&H"?; don't you mean H&C?
@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO Deffo C&H - Circle & Hammersmith, used internally as crews work over both lines
A nicely captured piece of history.
Going by how quiet the stations are, these must be the first trains after the great zombie apocalypse of 1984.
My late ex lived in Northolt, just off the A312 near the White Hart roundabout. I'd take a short 5 minute ride on a 90, 120, 140 or 282 to the station. As I worked in construction I would get one of the early trains into town and would often see the engineers trains heading back to Ruislip.
These shots were filmed in late 1994, in the off peak.
What a good natured bloke, he obviously didn’t mind being filmed for posterity! Was he someone you actually knew or just a friendly guard?
He was someone i knew. I lost touch but bumped into him the day i was filming the Epping-Ongar vid (see here ua-cam.com/video/3X8GUO9PAOs/v-deo.html) and filmed him there, and then went out again to film him doing his guard's duties as i knew it would be of interest as the guards were disappearing fast from London Underground.
Great videos many thanks 😊 what is the chances of re-enacting a video with Malcolm on the 92 stock as a passenger of course or better ride in the front cab with a driver. Please make it happen thank you
I'll ask him when i next see him.....
like the classic LU. I visited Island Line in winter 2019, great experience on 38ts.
You'll have to go back and experience the ex District Line D Stock next......
I like this video👍The guard on this video is so cool 😀 (im french)
I think my mate the guard enjoyed his time on the Underground. I took him to the preserved Epping-Ongar Railway (a good day out!) a couple of years back and he loved it!
Much better days...
This stock was better than the 1992 stock
Yes, i worked on them for a short while, and like the 59s i had been on (i didn't need stock training for 62s as they are basically the same) they were good, solid trains.....And the 92s are now around the same age as the 62s were when i filmed them!
Those were the days.
Tried contacting him?
Oh thanks for another guard in action video! Hopefully a few more??
I think i have one more of him at work....
Soi Buakhao thanks. Also I wonder why so many of the old Londoners have now settled in Essex?? Also any guards in operation videos, from the 1972 stocks??
@@kell8721 sadly no.......
RE Entering the tunnel from Leyton west bound , I often had a member of staff or a friend in the cab as i drove towards the entrance i would shout Duck you would be suprised how many did Lol ...
You wicked sod you......lol.....got to have a laugh though, long days on the front of a train can addle the mind..........as i know only to well.....lol
That looked quite fun, getting wind in yer face
Yes, i enjoyed my time as a guard, hanging out the side of trains!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Well, I suppose you're sad its all over? (Unless you can work for TFL of course)
Might be a weird question but one of the two guards panels were not working for some reason, the train could not operate with passengers at all right? No door controls in the driving cab?
No door controls for the driver back then (they are now under One Person Operation) so if a Guards position had trouble with the panel the train could not remain in service. Except, if you were the last train at night, you would have to use the Guards position at the front car, the rules said you always had to use the one in the rear car, in case of a breakaway, or a defect with the train (ie cutting out the rear trip-cock).......
So in the first few weeks or months when there were only dozens of 92 stock, what would Malcolm do if a 92 stock pulled into the platform?
Sit with the driver. Even if the last train of your duty was a 92 stock, there was always the risk that the serive may go to pot and trains & duties reformed and you could end up back on a 62 stock......
Did the guards have any way of contacting the driver? Like an intercom or such?
Yes, there was a Loudaphone type communication between them, a small white plastic speaker bowl and speaker grid next to it, on the Guards Panel.... More modern stock that had guards when new, like the 72, 73, 83 & D Stocks, had an actual phone handset to talk to one another.....
Great video !
Thank you........
Bet you got your fair share of sore throats and colds doing that job🥶
Yes, it could be a very cold life as a Guard, the 72 Stock on the Jubilee Line was very cold to work on.....
Now lets be honest! This guard is making a fairly full cup of coffee aboard a train between Northolt and Ruislip Gardens! WITHOUT spilling it! Look at the ride quality of the trains (smooth and comfortable) compared with todays modern LUL Trains that throw you around all over the bloody place! Oh yeah - they LOOK nice! But are they really a step forward in ride quality? Progress is not 'always' progress!!!
What happened to the guards when each line went OPO? Did they retrain to do something else?
All displaced guards up to the Jubilee Line OPO conversion could choose any depot they wanted to go to (assuming they hadn't taken promotion to driver), when the Met Main went OPO most gurads decended upon Neasden Jubilee. There were sometimes two shadow guards on the Jubilee duty rosters! When the Bakerloo converted in 1989 newer guards had to go where they were put, those with more seniority still had a choice of depot (but only the Central & Norther were left by then). The star of this vid was a Barking guard until District OPO in November 1985 and then went on the Picc at Acton Town, and after that went OPO went to Leytonstone. When the Central went OPO he went to East Finchley on the Northern. He is probably one of the most travelled guards, having worked on four lines!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Good to know. I'm glad they didn't get externally redeployed, if you know what I mean.
@@richardmcgowan6383 I'm sure some took redunancy, especially those who were near retirement age but nobody was forced to do so as long as you were prepared to move depot's.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I can understand why he wouldn't go up for driving, I greatly miss being a guard, became a driver when we went DOO but I would of chosen leaning out of 62 stock while drinking tea if it had been an option. Out of curiosity, how did the signal to depart button work, it doesn't use NR bell/buzzer codes?
At 0:53 what paperwork was the guard filling out?
He used to keep a record of every train he worked, ever since he started on the District Line in the mid 1970s.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Sounds like a top bloke, hope he wasn't badly affected by the eventual loss of the guard's role on the underground...
@@TrainBusFan06 He retired before the Guards finished, by then he was on the Northern Line. He now lives in Essex.....
I heard the guards threw eggs at the new stock which was making them redundant if they encountered a new stock set passing them! Is this true?
@@MistressValkress nah I'm pretty sure the guards would be sacked if they did that
still wondering if every one of our rail fans could have 2-4-6 or some units of the tube or other class of trains to convert them into the motorhome thing AND have some area FOR BALCONY,, it would be FANTASTIC
Some 83 stock still exist as artist studios at Shoreditch, high up on a small section of the old Broad Street line viaduct.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I don't mean just put the train somewhere as an object,, I mean it could be driving around as a private train
@@AlfaRomeo128 If you had a big enough place i suppose you could. William McAlpine has a large estate with a private railway and my old boss who sold Blue Triangle Buses owns the Epping-Ongar Railway and can play trains there!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I drive the buses for Roger!
@@leytonexile I used to....and get paid for it! I imagine you have to do it for free at the EOR?.......