Creating a train for my London Underground model railway - modelling real life tube stock 

Great video! Really enjoyed that. The tube/underground is not something I would model so it’s something quite different to watch and take interest in. 👍

Great video. The 1983 stock was delivered to Neasden overnight by pairs of class 31’s and two brake vans as barrier vehicles. One of the brake vans arrived at Neasden with a defective bearing and was not allowed to return on LUL tracks. It sat at Neasden for a few months before it was scrapped on site. Dave.

turned out well Eric... love that flashing red lamp...nice running shots...have a great Christmas etc...

That's a very cool rake Eric, great work. Ben.

Love a bit of kit & R.t.r bashing 😅 i Enjoyed it, and it breaks up the linear of layout building, thanks for making these videos... Merry Christmas 😊 Eric 🎄🎁🎉

Luverly job, nice fairly unique rake

Hi eric. well done with that train. by the way by varnishing your canal and painting it brown then light green will give a good finish. Thats what i have done on Acton Wells.

Genius indeed. You could pretend that the 47 is taking the tube stock for scrap somewhere. You might have to do an inventory soon to see what you do have under the boards. Good one Eric, enjoyable as always.

Great video - really enjoyed watching you put this together. I always say every railway video should have a couple minutes running session at the very least. It's just nice to see them going through the scenes you worked so hard to put together. Personally, I'd love to see some more London-ish stock and some EMU's working their way!

Great video again Eric

Underground Eric , as a very knowledgeable expert on the tube underground: have you heard of , the disused station walled off from tracks. Used by army as a transit camp, for troops due to be sent to the many trouble spots in the 1950s guarded by redcaps, army police , to stop runaways, as conscription at 18 ,whom mostly being trained for cannon fodder ! Mainly troopships , long time at sea : Malaya;Cyprus Korea Kenya etc , me by air ,28 hours to Nairobi , converted bombers Viscounts , not pressured, only five hours before refueling ! Hope of interesting boring ?

Hi Eric 👍 some great running shots and the train looks really nice. Good tip about the tape on the inside of the body. Hope you and the better half have a fantastic Christmas Andy

Well done Eric, looks brilliant. Merry Christmas to you and the Mrs and a happy New Year. Roy the Jinty man

Superb and it really highlights the height difference of Tube stock. Also, you could probably do a session on what you’ve got hidden in the Shed !

Awesome mate thanks

Super video, as always, and a good use for spare tube stock to make an interesting and unusual rake. 62 stock always ran as four-car units on the Central line and were delivered as such. There's no real need for a fifth car in the rake as I think that even when they went for scrap it was mostly as four-car sets. I can't immediately recall why there's a fifth car in the west end RAT, I'm sure the answer is on Google unless someone chips in to respond to this. Keep up the good work and merry Christmas.

Damn, quite jealous of your collection

Very nice Eric, always enjoy the more unusual trains on the network, some very interesting camera angles too 👌👍 Graham.

Nice work Eric. The class 47 looks good & the flashing tail light at the other end looks fab too. 👍

What a great idea, looks amazing, you're very talented!

Very nice and good to see something totally different. All the best Mark.

Eric great addition to your rolling stock, looks spot on well done, many thanks for sharing. Please stay safe and you and your family have a wonderful Merry Christmas and all the best for 2024. Cheers and regards from Barry..🎅🍺

Something very different. Nice!

Great video and very informative. I didn't realise there are two RAT 62 trains. I thought west end had a 92 one but I'm guessing with the shortage of 92 stock at the moment, they may have brought some more 62 out of retirement. Just a thought, if you're going to make a RAT train, which would be quite nice to film, why not make it a track cleaner? In the days before John's replacement bogies, I converted the original EFE axels by threading them through some brass tubing and adding a bit of lubricant. It's a bit of a faff as they are machined to grab the wheels which needs to be smoothed to get the tubing over and then gluing the wheel back on. It was a vast improvement over the original, probably not quite as good as pinpoints but a lot cheaper.

metro models i used to buy alot of stuff from there but sadly i sold all my lul stuff,had ballast trains as well he was good guy ex driver i believe new sub as well

You should build the upcoming London 2024 stock

Not sure if anyone has said, but I was informed that when the 62 stock was delivered, the cab end units faced inwards. Useless fact of the day.

Great video as usual, do you have more rolling stock than TfL? Did you try Metro Memory game?

Probably not quite appropriate for your layout. Whilst watching i had thoughts of the Alderney Railway and the consist they use 2 38 stock coaches i think they are being pulled by a 4 wheeled diesel shunter

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