Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
I've just been thinking about the Met line photos in this collection and I don't think I've seen so many before of T stock operating north of Rickmansworth to Amersham.
The perception is that the trains were operated only by A60 (and later A62) stock when Amersham was electrified, rather than with T stock until the Harrow-Moor Park widening was completed. This collection appears to capture the transitional period of electric trains north of Rickmansworth which appears to have largely gone unnoticed.
The significance of the photos showing the Oerlikon stock being replaced by the class 501s has already been noted.
Given the large number of electric stock photos taken on the LT and around Stonebridge Park depot (and on the GE lines) I now wonder if the photographer was an electrical engineer by profession. The photographer may have worked at Stonebridge Park given the number of photos taken of moving trains around the depot and in areas I would doubt a member of the public would have such access. Or maybe things were different in those days.
The perception is that the trains were operated only by A60 (and later A62) stock when Amersham was electrified, rather than with T stock until the Harrow-Moor Park widening was completed. This collection appears to capture the transitional period of electric trains north of Rickmansworth which appears to have largely gone unnoticed.
The significance of the photos showing the Oerlikon stock being replaced by the class 501s has already been noted.
Given the large number of electric stock photos taken on the LT and around Stonebridge Park depot (and on the GE lines) I now wonder if the photographer was an electrical engineer by profession. The photographer may have worked at Stonebridge Park given the number of photos taken of moving trains around the depot and in areas I would doubt a member of the public would have such access. Or maybe things were different in those days.