#1894
Metropolitan Railway H Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Kerr, Stuart and Company· from 1920· class of 8 British 4-4-4T locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Metropolitan H No. 105: Unknown photographer· Public domain
- 2. Image from page 22 of "Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1901) Metropolitan Railway H class: Internet Archive Book Images· CC0
what is it?
The Metropolitan Railway H Class consisted of eight 4-4-4T steam locomotives, numbered 103 to 110. They were built by Kerr, Stuart & Co of Stoke on Trent in 1920 at a cost of £11,575 each. A "notable addition" to the Metropolitan Railway, these locomotives were purchased for the express passenger trains on the mainline between Harrow (later Rickmansworth)—the change point from electric locomotives—and Aylesbury or Verney Junction.
who runs it
base stats
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 106 years ago, in 1920.
- 12.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 27 years (1920–1947).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1920–1921
- in service from
- 1920
- retired
- 1947
- status
- retired
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Kerr, Stuart and Company
- designer
- Charles Jones
- operators
- Metropolitan Railway, London and North Eastern Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-4T
- length
- 12.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6825222, Wikipedia: Metropolitan Railway H Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.