London Underground battery-electric locomotives are battery locomotives used for hauling engineers' trains on the London Underground network where they can operate when the electric traction current i
Preserved L35 at the London Transport Museum in November 2005
A battery-electric locomotive at Euston station, April 2006
Locomotive L16 seen at West Ham station (District line platforms).
LT battery-electric locomotives at Croxley Tip, 1971
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Metro-Cammell, formally the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company, was an English manufacturer of railway carriages, locomotives and railway wagons, based in Saltley, and subsequently Washwo
London Underground battery–electric locomotives
…held on 23 May 1963, when it propelled a replica of the original inspection train of open wagons used by William Ewart Gladstone and other dignitaries. Metro-Cammell received the order for the next batch of thirteen locomotives, which were numbered L20 to L32. The first one was delivered on 8 December 1964 to Ruislip…
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