one 5 car unit is the Metropolitan line's current RAT, with others in storage to jump in and take over if it fails. It currently resides at Neasden depot and comes out mainly during the autumn and winter months to spread a sandy mixture on the rails for better traction. Other D Stock units are working on other rail network operators around the UK. Miss the D Stock when they operated on the District Line.
I miss these classic D78 trains 😢. The new stock rolled out dosnt give me the spirit of the district line anymore. Why did they scrap these trains, that d78 stock was perfect. 😭
Blackfriars is certainly much better, although the platforms look rather thin to me compared to other stations. When the station becomes a major interchange again it will probably get quite busy on those platforms.
The D Stock was the last Sub-Surface Underground train batch to sound like a Underground train, whereas the S Stock doesn't sound like any Underground train of the past.
@@wisehat_yt I remember pre D78 tube stock, they were either red or silver, think the S7 stock irritating with its door buzzers and hard seating, the PA’s are far too loud, a female station names, then a male “Please mind the gap between the train and platform” on long distance far too much. S8’s were slightly better with their forward facing seats, but irritating based upon my comments about the S7 stock.
@@jacksugden8190 fair enough the only reason why i think it’s better is mainly because of the aircon and… well that’s about it tbh if the D stock had aircon also then i would prefer the D stock
@@wisehat_yt D stock had long loading alighting times due to their single leaf doors, they were in poor condition and too old for LU to invest in, plus they wanted train sets with the same sized wheels that they could transfer from one line to another.
Blackfriars is great, but the Mainline platforms are so long, you have to run so much from the barriers from the Tube on the Southbound to get to the rear of a 4 car mainline. Thats the only complaint I have about Blackfriars.
