Nothing special occurred when the last A stock ran (Except losing door interlock on the approach to H-o-t-H, perhaps?) - not even any particularly special announcements when the train terminated. The thread on the A's demise is
here (Starting from around the last day posts).
I'll be out Monday morning though, more than likely riding rather than photographing - I still rather like the C stock and will be sad to see them go.
Jack, well of course these trains will still be uning on the Wimbleware service. For a while, at least.
Visually their present format is nicer; the yellow handrails and seating moquette colours etc. But for seated passengers they were probably better to travel in when new, as there were better draught screens.
btw, I've edited my message, as my muse about what might happen should not have been said in advance. Its not that I have heard anything about Monday ('coz I haven't) but we are approaching the end of an era for the Circle Line and what was the Metropolitan Line's Hammersmith service and epochal changes are sometimes accompanied with 'events' (free refreshments - tea, coffee, mineral water, and finger food celebrations would be nice!!!, as would an O stock carriage on display somewhere at the station).
In effect, on Monday the former Combine which gained control of its commercial rivals in 1933 will be taking two more steps towards its long held aspiration of one type of rolling stock for all the subsurface lines.
Simon
