#1891
London Underground 1920 Stock
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Cammell Laird· from 1920· Class of train rolling stock
what is it?
The 1920 Tube Stock consisted of forty cars built by Cammell Laird in Nottingham, England. These cars were the first new tube cars to be built with air operated doors. The batch consisted of twenty trailer and twenty control trailer cars, which were formed into six-car trains by the addition of twenty French motor cars built in 1906 and modified for air-door operation.
fun facts
- First built 106 years ago, in 1920.
- Served for 49 years (1920–1969).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1920
- in service from
- 1920
- retired
- 1969
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- kind
- Deep-level tube
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Cammell Laird
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16986657, Wikipedia: London Underground 1920 Stock (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.