Metro Cammell
Metro-Cammel , also known as the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW), was an English manufacturer of railway wagons and locomotives based in Satlex and later in Washwood Heath in Birmingham . The company was bought by GEC Alsthom in May 1989 and production ended in 2005.
The company produced numerous vehicles for important projects, such as the trains for the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway, the East Railway Line and for the Eurotunnel . Most of the London Underground's vehicles that were produced around 1950 can also be attributed to Metro-Cammel.
history
In 1863 the "Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd of London" was founded. Joseph Wright initially produced the vehicles in London, but then moved production to Birmingham.
In 1902 the companies Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Co Ltd merged with Riche , Brown , Marshalls and Co. Ltd. , Lancaster Railway Carriage and Wagon Co Ltd and Oldbury Railway Carriage and Wagon Co Ltd and became the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd .
In 1929, the rail vehicle construction of the Cammell Laird and Company, which specializes in ships , was outsourced as the Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd , MCCW for short.
The newly established company was commissioned during the First World War to manufacture tanks for the British Army. So she produced all 1100 of the highly developed Mark V tanks .
In 1932 the Metro Cammell Weymann was founded in order to outsource the bus production that had been built up until then.
The MCCW was also active in tank construction during World War II .
The closure by Alstom
In May 1989 the company was sold to GEC Alstom . The last vehicles, Class 290 " Pendolino ", were manufactured in 2005 for the modernization of the West Coast Main Line . The factories in Birmingham were then closed.
vehicles
Full track
- Southern Railway "Brighton Belle" EMU
- Southern Railway "Crystal Palace" EMU
- Southern Railway "Coulsdon North & Sutton stock" EMU
- LNER Tyneside electric units
- LNER Shenfield line electric units (traction motors and intermediate cars)
- LNER Glossop line electric units (traction motors and intermediate cars)
- The Blue Pullman
- Metro-Cammell Lightweight "Heritage" diesel vehicle
- British Rail Class 101 "Heritage" diesel multiple units
- British Rail Class 111 "Heritage" diesel multiple units
- British Rail Class 151 diesel multiple units
- British Rail Class 156 "Super Sprinter" diesel multiple units
- British Rail Class 175 "Coradia" diesel multiple units
- British Rail Class 180 "Adelante" diesel multiple units
- British Rail Class 334 "Juniper" electric multiple unit
- British Rail Class 373 "TGV" electric multiple unit
- British Rail Class 390 "Pendolino" electric multiple unit
- British Rail Class 458 "Juniper" electric multiple unit
- British Rail Class 460 "Juniper" electric multiple unit
- British Rail Class 465/2 "Networker" electric multiple unit
- British Rail Class 466 "Networker" electric multiple unit
- British Rail Class 483 electric multiple unit (Originally manufactured as London Underground 1938 Stock)
- British Rail Class 503 electric multiple units
- British Rail Mark 4 coaching stock
- Arlanda Express (X3) electric multiple unit
- Via Rail Renaissance Fleet
Subway systems
London Underground
- London Underground Standard Stock (Bakerloo, Central, Piccadilly, Northern lines)
- London Underground 1935 Stock (Central line)
- London Underground 1938 Stock (Northern, Bakerloo, Piccadilly, East London and Central lines)
- London Underground R49 & R59 Stock (District line)
- London Underground 1959 Stock (Piccadilly line, then Bakerloo and Northern line)
- London Underground 1962 Tube Stock (Central line)
- London Underground 1967 Tube Stock (Victoria line)
- London Underground C69 Tube Stock (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City Lines)
- London Underground 1972 Tube Stock (Bakerloo line)
- London Underground 1973 Tube Stock (Piccadilly line)
- London Underground D78 Tube Stock (District line)
- London Underground 1983 Tube Stock (Jubilee line)
- London Underground 1986 Tube Stock (Central line)
- London Underground 1995 Tube Stock (Northern line)
- London Underground 1996 Tube Stock (Jubilee line)
- London Underground battery-electric locomotives
Other systems
- Glasgow Subway rolling stock (Glasgow Subway, Scotland)
- Tyne and Wear Metro rolling stock (Tyne and Wear Metro, England)
- MTR Metro Cammell EMU (AC) (East Rail Line, Hong Kong - formerly operated by Kowloon-Canton Railway, leased to MTR post-merger)
- MTR Metro Cammell EMU (DC) (Kwun Tong Line, Tsuen Wan Line, Island Line, Tseung Kwan O Line, Disneyland Resort Line, Hong Kong - operated by MTR)
- Birmingham Maglev (Birmingham International Airport - 3 carriages built, in service from 1984–1995)