Last trains of the are almost always a good way of seeing different train movements that you don’t normally get during the regular day service, or I find it’s always fun to be on a train that gets ‘lamped out’. Or you’ll often last thing on the tube see a yellow battery-powered maintenance loco come trundling through a station, but here’s something I hadn’t seen before.
Travelling home on the 00:09 last Victoria Line train out of Walthamstow to Brixton, some rather unusual passengers got on at Seven Sisters – a whole gang of maintenance engineers – who’d obviously decided that the fastest way to get their gear to tonight’s job was to take it on a passenger train with them!
Lots of large pieces of scary looking tools and machinery got loaded on, whilst the driver had to wait many seconds longer than he normally would until they signalled to him that they were all clear … and they went one stop to Finsbury Park, where they took a good minute to unload it all again.
Victoria Machinery