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London Underground T Stock
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Metropolitan-Vickers· from 1927· Electric train series used on the Metropolitan Railway from 1927 to 1933 and on the London Underground to 1962
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. T-stock-Acton-Works-open-day-1983: No machine-readable author provided. Spsmiler assumed (based on copyright claims).· Public domain
- 2. London Underground T Stock: Edgepedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The T Stock was a series of electric trains originally built in various batches by Metropolitan-Vickers and the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company for the Metropolitan Railway in 1927–31 for use on electric services from Baker Street and the City to Watford and Rickmansworth, though rarely some worked on the Uxbridge branch.
who runs it
fun facts
- First built 99 years ago, in 1927.
- 16.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 35 years (1927–1962).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1927
- in service from
- 1927
- retired
- 1962
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- kind
- Subsurface
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Metropolitan-Vickers, Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- operators
- London Underground, Metropolitan Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- length
- 16.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6670945, Wikipedia: London Underground T Stock (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.