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The Hammersmith & City line is a London Underground line that runs between Hammersmith in west London and Barking in east London. Coloured pink on the Tube map, it serves 29 stations over 15.8 miles (25.5 km). Between Farringdon and Aldgate East it skirts the City of London, the capital's financial heart, hence the line's name. Its tunnels are ...
|Constructed = 1969-1977 The London Underground C69 and C77 Stock, commonly referred to as the C Stock, was a type of sub-surface rolling stock used on the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City (formerly Metropolitan) lines of the London Underground between 1970 and 2014. They were replaced by the S7 Stock.
The London Underground S7 and S8 Stock, commonly referred to as S Stock, is a type of passenger train running on the London Underground's subsurface lines since 2010. . Manufactured by Bombardier Transportation's Derby Litchurch Lane Works, the S Stock was ordered to replace the A60, A62, C69, C77 and D78 stock on the Metropolitan, District, Hammersmith & City, and Circle lines, which all ...
The order was for a total of 192 trains (1,403 cars), and formed of two types, S7 Stock for the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines and S8 Stock for the Metropolitan line. The main differences are the train lengths and seating arrangements, where the S7 Stock consists of seven cars in a longitudinal-only layout and the S8 Stock has ...
The Circle line has served Hammersmith since 13 December 2009. By June 2011 all of the platforms had been lengthened to accommodate the new and longer S7 Stock trains, that first entered service on the Hammersmith and City Line from the beginning of July 2012.
The London Underground O and P Stock electric multiple units were used on the London Underground from 1937 to 1981. O Stock trains were built for the Hammersmith & City line, using metadyne control equipment with regenerative braking, but the trains were made up entirely of motor cars and this caused technical problems with the traction supply so trailer cars were added.
The joint Met and GWR stock on the Hammersmith & City line dating from 1905 was replaced by O stock that initially operated in 4 and 6-car formations, entering service from 1937. [33]: 65 However, the train was entirely made of motor cars and this caused a problem with the electrical supply, so trailer cars were added from 1938.
The depot opened in 1906 for the electrification of the then-Metropolitan Railway (now Hammersmith & City line).[1]On 29 August 1991, three incendiary devices, attributed to the IRA, were discovered under a seat at the depot.