Dstock7080, don't feel bad about the last revenue day being a total damp squibb, C Stocks were not the highlight of TfL design in any way: while they may have entered the 1990s with a good fanbase from a radical refurbishment, it came out today with plenty o' enemies, largely from disgruntled commuters.
I expect to be bashed by the train's respectable fans for saying this (The first driver shunned the hastily installed PA announcements for constant announcements about the last C Stock in revenue service), but I always thought of them as being
inaccessible and hostile dirty cattle-truck sardine sauna-oven hybrids.
If you regularly used them for your daily commute you'd notice how the summer quite literally turns it into Sahara-on-wheels and the winter makes it Antarctica-on-wheels (unless the operator enabled selective door opening). As for spring and autumn... well it's still a hostile environment with cold lighting and lots of graffiti from the friends of TOX.
I could have brought bubbly to celebrate its departure like those sacked TV-am technicians if it hadn't been for the alcohol bye-laws and my rejective taste-buds (the latter was the decisive factor), but I came anyway just to have some photographic fun. It's like being in the 1980s again, only nostalgic.
On the plus side, the bird that was on the tube was not a pigeon for the first time:
Little Owl on the Tube by
κύριαsity, on Flickr
SPOILER: It's my cuddly owl, meaning that the only highlight of this whole day was my creativity.