The Metropolitan Railway served a sizeable area of countryside to the north-west of London, extending out into the depths of Buckinghamshire. As a result, it developed not only passenger services, both suburban and long-distance, but also a thriving goods traffic, for which it developed a wide range of wagons.
This study charts the development of the Metropolitan's rolling stock from its beginnings in 1863, through to its absorption into the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, when, swamped by the interests of the Underground group, its independent character was effectively stifled. It was not long before its non-passenger ,interests were handed over, along with much of the freight stock and the loco-motive fleet, to the control of the London & North Eastern Railway, with whom, as successors to the Great Central Railway, the Metropolitan coexisted.
Contents:
· Introduction
· Chapter 1 - The Early Carriages
· Chapter 2 - The Jubilee Stock
· Chapter 3 - Modernisation, The Bogie Stock
· Chapter 4 - The Dreadnought Stock
· Chapter 5 - The Pullman Cars
· Chapter 6 - Metropolitan Railway Saloon Carriages
· Chapter 7 - Electrification & Rolling Stock Development:
- The 1905-7 Stock
- Experience With The Early Electric Stock
- Subsequent Developments, The 1913 Stock
- Slam vs Sliding Doors, The 1919 Experimental Stock
- The 1921 Stock
- The Last Saloon Cars, The 1925 Stock
· Chapter 8 - The Main-Line Compartment Electric Stock
· Chapter 9 - Non-Passenger Stock
· Chapter 10 - Goods Stock
· Appendix 1 - Metropolitan Railway Carriage Numbering
· Appendix 2 - LPTB Renumbering Of Metropolitan Railway Electric Stock
· Acknowledgements
By James R. Snowdon
Softback. 274x216mm. 176 pages
123 black & white photographs. Drawings
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