Tube preservation

[snudge27]

I was thinking about the preservation of tube trains earlier, and reckon that the fact that the 1967 Stock, and the A-Stock are being preserved is more because they represent a significant stage in development (ATO), or a particularly long-serving stock, rather than a new policy of preservation. So I was thinking:

If you could choose one current train for preservation, going forward, which stock would it be, and why?

[The Raven]

InterCity 125 and British Rail Class 373 (Eurostar)

Just for historical significance.

[tubeguru]

How many HSTs have you seen on the tube?

[The Raven]

How many HSTs have you seen on the tube?

snudge27 didn't specify tube stock!

Tube stock wise all of them!

[tubeguru]

Possibly, but he was thinking of tube stock before, and used the word "stock" when asking what you'd like preserved.

Maybe he would care to clarify.

[tubeguru]

(Plus, the title of this thread is "Tube preservation".

[snudge27]

Sorry, I did mean LU rolling stock. Normal trains, by and large, all end up with an example preserved somewhere, but the preservation of old LU stock is disappointingly rare. So which ONE out of the following would you preserve:

C stock
D stock
S stock
1972 TS
1973 TS
1992 TS
1995 TS
1996 TS
2009 TS

[hopeful traveller]

1996TS - first one to be converted to ATO from manual operation.

[snudge27]

I'd preserve a D-Stock and restore it back to its original design (bare aluminium, maplewood flooring etc.,). The modern, and refurbished, trains are rather sterile and I remember always being impressed by the interior of the D-Stock.