London Underground 1959 Stock
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. It was the first production tube stock to have unpainted aluminium alloy bodywork.
Two cars of 1959 stock as preserved on the Alderney Railway
A 1959 Stock train at Barons Court
Metro-Cammell, formally the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW), was an English manufacturer of railway carriages, locomotives and railway wagons, based in Saltley, and subsequently Washwood Heath, in Birmingham. The company was purchased by GEC Alsthom in May 1989; the Washwood Heath factory closed in 2005 and was demolished in early 2019.
A door step plate from a unit of London Underground 1973 Stock, built by Metro-Cammell
Share of the Metropolitan Railway-Carriage & Wagon Company Ltd., issued 24. May 1864
Second class coach of 1854, built by Joseph Wright and Sons, now in Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Flirt II, a WWI Mark IV "Female" tank, built by Metropolitan