 Hello, thank you for joining me. I have just arrived at this farm in Beckinsfield in my Larder River. There's something rather unusual up at this farm. What happened? A couple of weeks ago, I was out for a walk, walking along the footpath. I spotted something rather unusual. I put it on a couple of social media sites. The internet went a bit mad over it and the farm had very kindly gotten in touch with me and invited me to come and have a closer look. So here we are, the farm in Beckinsfield. Come here to see an old district line carriage. So we'll go in and see if we can go in and have a look. I showed you outside first, so look at that. So this vehicle is here to be restored. It's going to be part of a glamping project, so eventually you'll actually be able to come stay here. It does need a lot of work from where it's been previously. It hasn't been as well looked after as perhaps it will be in the future, but it's number 21147. Let's go and have a look inside. So it's been around at various places. It did spend a bit of time at Wolfamstow Pump House Museum, which is worth a visit. If you want to see that video, have a look at the link on screen now. Let's have a look inside there. I'll scoop up the ladder and have a look inside. I'll tell you what, before we go inside, one other thing I'll point out is it's currently on a road trailer, not on railway wheels on bogies. The reason that is I've been told it was used by London Transport. So London Transport put it onto this trailer and it was used for training and they could move it around by road to various places. Anyway, I'm sure you want to see inside and so do I. So let's go and have a look. It's an exciting, very vintage of the period. So here we are. I never thought I'd ever go in an r-stock carriage. I know there are some around, but here we are in Beckinsfield, in Buckinshire, in an r-stock carriage. As I said, it is a waiting restoration, so the owner is going to restore it all, make it all look nice, and as I said, it'll be a glamping product. You'll actually be able to come and camp in here, or glamp rather, spend a night in here. I can't think of anything more exciting than spending the night in a tube carriage, so I'm going to have to possibly come back when it's open, but let's just have a look and let's just imagine, you know, we're down on the district line, you know, we could have been departing South Kensington. It could be a really busy train, if it was now, if we have to have a mask on, but you know, pre-pandemic days are busy train. I do remember these when I was little on some tube trains, then they replaced them with more grand pandals, but I do remember these used to hold on to, so yeah, imagine we're rattling down the district line and be different to this. So here you've got the seats facing inwards, and then here you've got, I always, when the de-stock trains are still running, I always would go for these seats, because I used to like, I preferred sitting so, you know, I could look out the window, and so whenever I go on a Metropolitan S-stock train, which still have some seats that face the way the train's going, I'll always do the hat and I'll sit there and look out the window, because the problem with me is whenever I sit on a seat like this, I'm always sat down, right round like that trying to see out the window, but that really is the sort of view I would never thought I'd see from a tube train. The view across the rural Buckinghamshire countryside on the farm, and just something to show you down here, if you're wondering how old the vehicle is, I appreciate it's upside down, but look at that. It does say 1949 Metro camera, I know it's probably hard to see on camera. Well I'll do, I'll take a picture, and I'll insert it now. So there you are, I hope you saw that a bit better. So yeah, here's the very heart of this really impressive London Underground carriage, there's only three R-stock carriages left I believe, and there's other similar ones around, so I think it's, there's one at Quainton, it's not an R-stock one, but it's very similar to this, so there's three carriages there, and there was another one, I said they spent a short time at the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum, the other one which was more known to be there, that I believe is now at Whitewell and Reepham station up in Norfolk, another place I'd like to visit along with their miniature alley. Anyway let's go another look now, so yeah this will take us into the drivers camp, as I said it is all the way to Restoration, I assume in there that would have been there's a light, that's where they put you know what was on the front of the train where the train was going, so the driver would have stood or sat here, had the forward view, there's all the buttons there for the doors and everything, and I think that's up here, that is a motor for the driver's windscreen wiper, so it really is, I'm just really excited to be here, in the current state it's in, the owner's bought it in need of restoration, he's going to restore it, and you know yes it's probably never going to run on the train again, on the railways again, but you know it's found a new lease of life which I think is really nice, it's got these cushions on but that's probably the original moquette there underneath the cushion which is quite a nice thing, so a bit more about the farm I believe the owners plan is, as I said this will be a glamping carriage, there'll be a few other glamping vehicles around, I'm not sure, possibly that caravan out there is going to be one of them, but various other vehicles and little buildings, I think it will be, as I said I really do think it would be a really nice thing to come and see when it's all done, so let's see even some maps, just see the remains of maps so that's interesting, it's got documents like railway, so the documents like railway I believe opened was it 1987, it was late 80s, so was this still running when the documents are railway opened, I'm not sure or has a newer map been put up inside, anyone watching, I'm sure there is someone out there watching who knows more than I do, please do comment tell me, instructing the doors can cause delays and be dangerous, I don't think I need to worry about any delays because it's been sat here for a while, also another thing that seems unusual to see on the underground is the windows actually open, I'm not going to try and open it, but it says pull to open ventilator, pull down handle, interesting they call it a ventilator rather than, well I suppose the ventilator is the opening part of the window, so I'm just letting you have a look now really at the carriage itself, I'm not sure what that is, maybe that's some sort of emergency, you know how you get the communication cord, maybe you could pull that an emergency, I'm not sure, again you know more, do comment and tell me, I like the slight clear story of the roof, oh look here we are, here's an older map, now this is a district line map, I can just see upminster up there, you can see monument, cannery, black friars, that would be embankment, it says British Rail at Charing Cross, the rest of the map's quite faded, but yeah I just think I'm just really excited to be here, I think this is great and I know I've said it a couple of times, I'm really looking forward to seeing this project progress, I think now though it's time for me to jump back in the larder and go home and perhaps we'll come here again in the future once restoration's complete and well see what happens, oh there's something else, that's another thing to have a look at, more switches, lights, heaters etc, there's probably would have been a fire extinguisher here, there's a pressure gauge there and that looks like another communication cord up there, so I hope you enjoyed this video from this district line r-stock carriage, thank you very much for watching, please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment and from the London Underground in deepest Buckinghamshire, goodbye.