London Underground Watford Joint Stock
London Underground Watford Joint Stock | |
---|---|
Stock type | Deep-level tube |
Manufacturer | Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon |
Lines served | Bakerloo line |
Notes/references | |
London transport portal |
The Watford Joint Tube Stock was built for the service to Watford along both the Bakerloo tube and the London North Western Railway. As a result, the cars were owned by both the Underground and the London North Western Railway. To be able to operate on both lines, the car floors were 4+1⁄2 inches (110 mm) higher than other tube cars. This was a compromise height between the platform heights on the two lines.
The cars were ordered in 1914, but construction was delayed by World War I. As a result, the first cars were not delivered until early 1920.
A total of 72 cars were built by Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon: 36 motor cars, 24 trailers, and 12 driving trailers. They were formed into six-car trains, and for the first time a motor car was used in the middle of the train. For this to happen, there had to be a passageway by the switch compartment as required by the Board of Trade.
These cars were built with hinged doors to the passenger compartments, an arrangement that caused delays during station stops, as each door had to be manually checked before the train departed.[1]
Notes
- ^ * Bruce, J. Graeme (1979). Tube trains under London (2nd ed.). London: London Transport. p. 122. ISBN 0-85329-095-4.
External links
- London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- Joint Stock motor car, 1920
- Joint Stock motor car, side view, 1920
- Joint Stock trailer car, 1920
- Interior view of Joint Stock car, 1921
- Joint Stock driver's cab, 1920
- v
- t
- e
- Harrow & Wealdstone
- Kenton
- South Kenton
- North Wembley
- Wembley Central
- Stonebridge Park
- Harlesden
- Willesden Junction
- Kensal Green
- Queen's Park
- Kilburn Park
- Maida Vale
- Warwick Avenue
- Paddington
- Edgware Road
- Marylebone
- Baker Street
- Regents Park
- Oxford Circus
- Piccadilly Circus
- Charing Cross
- Embankment
- Waterloo
- Lambeth North
- Elephant and Castle (100m)
Former companies | |
---|---|
Former stations now served by London Overground | |
Former stations now served by Jubilee line | |
Former rolling stock |
|
Abandoned plans |
London transport portal
This article about the London Underground is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e