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London Underground 2009 Stock

🇨🇦 Canada ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 2009· type of London Underground train produced by Bombardier

🚇 metro electric ✓ in service
London Underground 2009 Stock, photo 1 of 9
1/9 Paul Burpitt· CC BY-SA 2.0

what is it?

The London Underground 2009 Stock is a type of London Underground train built by Bombardier as part of its Movia family at its Derby Litchurch Lane Works, England. A total of 47 eight-car trains have been built for the Victoria line. They entered service between July 2009 and June 2011 and replaced the 1967 Tube Stock.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 80 km/htop speed
  • weight 197 tin working order
  • seats 876passengers
  • built 376made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

  • First built 17 years ago, in 2009.
  • Weighs about as much as 33 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 133 m long: about 30 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Seats 876: 18 full city buses (~50 seats each).

metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.

spec sheet

built
2009
in service from
2009
status
in service
number built
376
kind
Deep-level tube
traction
electric
origin
🇨🇦 Canada
builders
ALSTOM Transportation Germany
operators
TfL
top speed
80 km/h
power
—
formation
8 cars per train
length
133 m
weight
197 t
capacity
876 passengers

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q1061041, Wikipedia: London Underground 2009 Stock (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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