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Underground Trains

• 1938 tube stock on the Isle of Wight – A study of these veteran units now at work on the Isle of Wight. (Selected additions up to 14 September 2021)

• 1959 tube stock – Old Northern Line trains: noisy, charactered and ancient, a handful of these trains made it into 2000: the last was withdrawn on Thursday 27 January 2000. (Selected additions and updates to 16 October 2021)

  • The last day of the 1959 Tube Stock is an account of the final hours of the era.

  • “Heritage” 1959-stock train, partly now in preservation. (Selected additions up to 14 September 2021)

• 1960 tube stock – The remaining example is preserved and privately-owned, and has come out to play from time to time. (Updated 16 July 2008)

• 1962 tube stock – Old Central Line stock (some units worked on the Northern Line afterwards until 1999). A handful of units now on special duties around the system, plus one in preservation. (Revised 16 July 2008, selected additions up to 8 December 2023)

• 1967 tube stock – Old Victoria Line trains which drove themselves. Now all withdrawn for scrap, and replaced by the 2009 tube stock. (Addition 31 July 2006)

• 1972 MkI tube stock – Former Northern Line trains. Many of them went for scrap; some cars and units had been refurbished and re-used either on the Victoria Line (and since scrapped) or on the Bakerloo Line (still in service). (Selected additions to 8 December 2023)

• 1972 MkII tube stock – Bakerloo Line trains, outwardly similar to the MkI trains and the 1967 tube stock. (Selected additions to 15 June 2019)

• 1973 tube stock – The refurbished Piccadilly Line fleet. (Revised and photos added 17 August 2008)

• 1983 tube stock – Some of these lasted just 9½ years in service on the Jubilee Line, and they’re all junk now. (Updated 3 July 2015)

• 1992 tube stock – The self-driving Central Line trains, plus the near-identical Waterloo & City Line stock. (Updated 28 August 2017, selected additions up to 27 November 2023)

• 1995 tube stock – The Northern Line fleet, which now drives itself throughout the line.

• 1996 tube stock – The Jubilee Line fleet, which drives itself throughout the line. (Updated 17 July 2011, selected addtions to 31 December 2019)

• 2009 tube stock – The Victoria Line’s new fleet of trains which drive themselves. (awaiting page)

• 2024 tube stock – The Piccadilly Line’s future fleet of new trains which is being built by Siemens. (awaiting page)

Subsurface Stock:

• A60/62 stock – Old Metropolitan Line trains dating from 1960, all withdrawn from passenger duties by autumn 2012, and now (June 2018) all gone completely. (Selected update 5 October 2018, full revision awaited)

• C69/77 stock – Old high-capacity trains for the Circle and Hammersmith Lines, plus all District Line services that run to Edgware Road. All withdrawn from passenger duties and all scrapped (except 1 car to the Museum Depot). (Full revision awaited)

• D78 stock – Old District Line trains (except for running between High Street Kensington and Edgware Road), refurbished in the mid-2000s. Now all withdrawn and replaced by S stock. Some cars heading to a second career with Vivarail. (Selected update 19 November 2020, full revision awaited)

• S stock – The new generic Subsurface stock introduced since 2010, which now operates all services throughout the Subsurface network. It replaced the A60/62 stock on the Metropolitan Line, the C stock on the Circle/Hammersmith & City Lines and District Lines, and the D stock on the District Line.(Updated 1 March 2023)

Other Stock:

• Engineering & Heritage stock – features battery and Schöma diesel locos, Sarah Siddons, ancient sleet loco, and the Track Recording Train. (Minor addition 19 May 2018)