I was reading a thread from a few years ago which said that the oldest station running with the same rolling stock it had when it opened was Hatton Cross Tube station, opening in 1975 with 1973 Stock (it seems to have taken a few more years for the last 1959 Stock to leave the Piccadilly, but I'd still say it counts). Once the 2024 Stock's in service, what will the record holder, or likely one, depending on future changes, be?
The website I use for chronological (re)openings goes back to 1993 with the start of the Robin Hood line, which I doubt is the winner. Even if Newstead and Hucknall weren't excluded for being reopenings, services there that year seem to have been 150s or 153s (I think), neither of which are on that line now. I don't know off the top of my head whether any of the Scottish stations listed nearer the bottom – Wallyford, Sanquhar, Prestwick, Camelon, Dalgety Bay, Drumfrochar – have gone more or less thirty years with the same stock, or if anywhere beats them.
A related question I have is which rolling stock precedes stations it regularly calls at by the longest (for argument's sake, excluding heritage railways and long-preserved cases like the Isle of Man or Blackpool's older trams). I'll open the bidding with (I think) 31 years between 156s entering service and Warrington West* opening, but I don't know when they first started on that line specifically.
*unlike Horden, no confusion over whether reopenings count
The website I use for chronological (re)openings goes back to 1993 with the start of the Robin Hood line, which I doubt is the winner. Even if Newstead and Hucknall weren't excluded for being reopenings, services there that year seem to have been 150s or 153s (I think), neither of which are on that line now. I don't know off the top of my head whether any of the Scottish stations listed nearer the bottom – Wallyford, Sanquhar, Prestwick, Camelon, Dalgety Bay, Drumfrochar – have gone more or less thirty years with the same stock, or if anywhere beats them.
A related question I have is which rolling stock precedes stations it regularly calls at by the longest (for argument's sake, excluding heritage railways and long-preserved cases like the Isle of Man or Blackpool's older trams). I'll open the bidding with (I think) 31 years between 156s entering service and Warrington West* opening, but I don't know when they first started on that line specifically.
*unlike Horden, no confusion over whether reopenings count
