Metropolitan-Vickers electric locomotives
Twenty locomotives, named in 1927, and the most powerful ever to work on the Underground. They hauled main-line trains to Rickmansworth until the last loco-hauled timetabled train on 9 September 1961.
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- Type
- Electric locomotive (Bo-Bo, 1,200 hp)
- Builder
- Metropolitan-Vickers
- Built
- 1922–1923
- In service
- 1922–1961
- Lines
- Metropolitan
- Preserved
- No. 12 Sarah Siddons is still in working order for heritage trains; No. 5 John Hampden is at London Transport Museum
Sources
- Metropolitan Railway electric locomotives, Wikipedia
- Metropolitan Railway electric locomotive No. 5 John Hampden, London Transport Museum
- Ride a vintage 1930s Tube train, July 2026, Time Out