Now You C Me - Documentary

"Alex" "What?" "I think that's it" Alex looks at the cab thinking 'what have I missed?'

You can see grenfell at 6:45 before the unexpected happened 💔

Thanks to Geoff I appear to be becoming a train nerd. But as an electronic engineer I love the shunt/series/parallel labels as they make perfect sense and describe exactly what they do.

For anyone wondering, "series" is switched so several motors are lined up one after the other in the circuit - the current has to go through all of them, thus increasing resistance. When the controller is switched to "parallel," the current goes through each motor independently, thus there is less resistance. It's a very simple way of controlling acceleration, but it works.

The ending sequence, and the long shot of him staring down in silence, was a great bit of filmmaking.

I used to drive these until 2003. But my favourite ones to work were the 59/62 stock. Had great times on those.

C stock were easily my favourites. Sorely missed, the wonderful sound of those motors brings back some fantastic memories...

10:00 after, I can sense the sorrow within Alex, I can tell that he would love to spend just a moment longer with the train the started his career as a train driver. I've recently experienced the same feelings as my primary school moved into a new campus. A perfect display of the love and compassion from a driver who loves his hip and train. Like Alex, a kiss goodbye to the c stock, although I never got a chance to ride on one, may your legacy lives on. P.S. in HK, where I live, we're facing the same situation and feelings soon as the old trains on our railway (the m-train and the MLR, both built by Metro Cammell) is going to be retired and presumably scrapped.

The C Stock which originally served the Circle, Hammersmith & City and the Wimbledon to Edgware Road branch of the District line, passed over those duties to the S Stock. RIP C69/C77 stock. Thank you for many years of faithful service.

1:34 There's an even more exciting train, the 1960 Track Recording Train!

C69/C77 stock will always be my favorite underground train!! Miss not being able to travel in these wonderful trains.

I miss these trains. I remember when they were unrefurbished. They may have been old when they were retired, but they had class.

Intriguing to see at 1:35 what looks like a Cravens 1960 stock unit in the car shed alongside the S stock. A graphic demonstration of the size difference between tube and cut-and-cover rolling stock! (Edit: comments below confirm that it is the Track Recording Train formed of 1960 stock)

Thank you for this (edited version) and that you've uploaded it here, Geoff! Love it! Jo

I just heard you on my Thameslink train to Brighton, it was so refreshing to hear your voice. It made me happy ☺️

10:01 the look on Alex's face when he realized it was his last time 😥😥

I hope you're still around on YouTube when they replace the old '72, '73 and '92 stock with the (still to be properly named) "new tube" in a few years time. Mainly because the other few videos on the transition from old to new stock have been fascinating. The only difference is we'll all be a lot older and greyer by then!

Cheers Geoff, looks like a day out with someone who was happy to explain their work, thanks for posting up : )

A Fantastic and very informative documentary with great commentary. Thanks for uploading this! Cheers Peter

9:48 Alex said 5596 could be the last C stock and he was correct 5596 was the last C69 stock to run on the London Underground