NOT QUITE THE ALL WEATHER MODE? Some British commuters had a sing-along heralding the Southern Electric's recent troubles.

You Tube video from Going Underground.

Electric trains are supposed to get through in winter. The last few years of the North Shore Line coincided with a run of cold winters, with one of the coldest days on record the night the line quit business.

Ryan Road, early 1959.

The cars were in good shape for the weather right up to the end. Here is a transfer of equipment to Highwood Shops to be put into good running order. One track of the original Shore Line remained in service for these empty stock moves, and for delivery of coal to dealers in the northern suburbs.


Some North Shore cars in preservation were relatively easy to return to service as the carrier continued its regular maintenance schedule right to the end.