Wooden Trains in Hampstead?

[Tokkyu40]

I found an article on train commuting in England after the Second World War and it mentioned wooden compartment trains.
http://dewi.ca/trains/ucs_met.html

Does anyone know anything about these trains?

Claude

 

[Stationbeem]

Hane a look on here it may give you the info you need.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment_coach

 

[Wessex_Electric_Nutter]

Ahh, London Underground T stock. Yes, believe it or not, these were London Underground trains. They were only allowed on the Metropolitan Line and worked between Amersham and Baker Street/Algate. Sometimes also out to Uxbridge. They were built/converted between 1925 and 1927, with 2 different sets of coaches used.

The T Stock were divided into MV and MW stock, MV being the Vacumn braked stock and MW being the Air braked stock (Hint, V = Vacumn, W = Westinghouse)


Although they appeared wooden, some stock of the MW had actually wooden effect exterior panels, while MV had fully wooden bodies.


All however were withdrawn in 1963 when the Amersham stock (A60/A62 Stock) replaced them from the Amersham runs, ironically, the Amersham stock is due to be replaced this year.


Info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_T_Stock


And yes, there is a half completed model for Trainz, I have it and I have not bothered to export it yet. If there is demand, I might rebuild it.

 

[Tokkyu40]

...Although they appeared wooden, some stock of the MW had actually wooden effect exterior panels, while MV had fully wooden bodies...

Thanks, that answers a lot. I wouldn't mind having wood sheathed cars on the local line. I think they would be classy.
If you finish the T stock, I'm sure it would be very popular. I already have some wood bodied Gresley cars which look really good. the T stock would complement it well on the layout.

Claude

 

[JCitron]

You might find these links of interest.

http://www.trainweb.org/districtdave/index.html

http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/ <----- Very fascinating! I spent hours looking at this site and reading the history of the different Underground lines.