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An initial batch of 94 nine-car trains has been ordered at a cost of £1.5 billion to replace 1973 Stock trains on the Piccadilly line, with options for a total of 250 trains allowing replacement of all existing trains on the deep-level Central, Waterloo & City and Bakerloo lines. The first train was delivered for testing in London in October 2024.
A Metropolitan line train at Uxbridge, with a Piccadilly line train to the left. This section is shared between the two lines. Journey times on the Piccadilly line are usually around an hour and a half. Train dwell times are slightly longer at some stations, such as at Heathrow Terminals 4 and 5 stations. The former requires 8 minutes, while ...
A sub-surface Metropolitan line A Stock train (left) passes a deep-tube Piccadilly line 1973 Stock train (right) in the siding at Rayners Lane.. The Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines are services that run on the sub-surface network, that has railway tunnels just below the surface and was built mostly using the cut-and-cover method.
The District line already ran trains over this route, and the Piccadilly tube service would provide additional connections. The bill received assent as the London Electric Railway Act 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. xcvii) on 15 August 1913. [71] The advent of World War I prevented work on the extension starting. Post-war, a shortage of funds and other ...
A 1959 Stock train at Barons Court in 1962. The 1959 Tube Stock was a type of London Underground tube train constructed in the late 1950s. They were intended for use on the Piccadilly line, but also saw use on several other tube lines.
In 1926–1927, while the conversion was in progress, two six-car trains of 1906 Stock and 1920 Stock were borrowed from the Piccadilly line, the trailers fitted with smaller wheels to allow them to run in the smaller Central London tunnels. Fitting the air-doors reduced the number of seats, from 48 to 40 in the trailers and 42 to 30 in the ...
London Transport intended to use the prototype 1960 Stock to develop new trains to replace the Standard Stock on the Central line: however, the condition of the 30–40 year-old Central line fleet were deteriorating under an intense service pattern, exacerbated by growing demand from the expansion of electric trains in the Eastern Region of ...
British Museum; closed 24 September 1933, [55] replaced by two new platforms at the Piccadilly line's Holborn station. On the shuttle service from Epping to Ongar, closed in September 1994: North Weald; it was first served by the Central line on 25 September 1949, [55] taking over the Great Eastern Railway (GER)'s services. It closed on 30 ...