Bakerloo line Gallery 1
1972 MkII Stock Driving Motor Car 3233 is seen entering the reversal siding at Harrow & Wealdstone.
The same train as seen above but now fully into the reversal siding.
Interior views of DM 3233.
The Metro-Cammell logo and ‘1972’ designation are partially obscured due to the presence of an additional strip positioned adjacent the door running track.
The next batch of photographs was taken in May 2017.
Following the withdrawal of the 1967 Stock from the Victoria line in 2011, some parts of the older trains began to appear in the Bakerloo’s own 1972 Stock fleet in subsequent years, when replacements were required; here, we see a floor access panel from one of the withdrawn trains.
The 1972 Stock trains underwent a life-prolonging programme, including a cosmetic refresh from 2016 onwards. As part of this work, the destination blinds were replaced; the new blinds featuring destinations in Title Case, as opposed to uppercase, as employed in the earlier blinds. Here, we see Driving Motor 3236 (seen at the Harrow & Wealdstone reversal siding) sporting such a blind.
The cab of Driving Motor 3353 was never modified for One Person Operation (as was the case for many units); consequently, this always forms a ‘middle’ cab when made up into a seven-car train.
As can be seen, there are no door controls attached to the driving console.
A Bakerloo line sticker is still fitted to the cab’s M door, however.
Another sticker; this time, one displaying the locations of safety equipment, is visible on the back wall of the cab.
As part of the refresh, the seating was re-upholstered using a variant of the ‘Barman’ moquette that was applied to the seats of trains on other lines. Uniquely, brown is the predominant colour in this variant - it is normally blue.
Driving Motor 3556 takes up the rear of a train headed for Elephant & Castle at Queen’s Park. Notice the narrow ledge to the front of the cab - this allows the driver to exit without having to go through the passenger saloon area.
Coincidentally, the previous consecutively-numbered unit was pictured at Harrow & Wealdstone a little later on the same day. Notice that the new moquette has not been applied to the driver’s seat.
This same train heads off into the sunset, or the reversal siding, at least!
Along with the new seating moquette, the 1972 Mk II Stock also received new flooring. These next couple of pictures, taken in 2018, at Kilburn Park, show one such train.
Already, the replacement seating showed signs of having supported many a posterior!
One of the former ticket office windows at Stonebridge Park station now carries an information panel describing the different moquette fabrics that have been used in the 1972 Mk II Stock interiors over its lifetime.