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Re: Railway Age from 1996—Metro-North Abandoning EMUs?? |
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Posted by Fytton on Wed Feb 13 10:18:34 2008, in response to Re: Railway Age from 1996—Metro-North Abandoning EMUs??, posted by Fytton on Wed Feb 13 10:10:48 2008. The recently re-opened, renovated London Transport Museum has a push-and-pull cab car on display. It is an 1897 steam-hauled compartment stock (slam-door) car that was converted into an EMU cab car when the Metropolitan Railway was mostly electrified early in the 20th century. It was later converted back to a steam-hauled push-and-pull cab car for use on the Chesham branch of the Metropolitan Line, where it served until electrification reached Chesham in 1960. These 1897 Metropolitan Railway cars were the oldest passenger rolling stock operational in the UK when they were retired in 1960, aged 63 years! I remember riding them on the Met as a teenage railfan, in their last years. |
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