[1] However, declining ridership and cancellation of future phases of the now-Jubilee line meant that only 15 6-car trains were ordered from Metro-Cammell in 1982.

[5][6] This embarrassment was picked up in the international press, as Metro-Cammell competed to win the rolling stock contract for the Singapore MRT.

[5][7] An increase in passenger numbers in the mid 1980s meant that another 161⁄2 sets were ordered in August 1986 (called Batch Two),[8] entering service from November 1987.

[1] The single leaf doors allowed for a greater number of seats per car.

[3][9] With the Jubilee Line Extension in mind, it was originally planned that the 1983 Stock would be heavily refurbished to run alongside the newer 1996 Stock that entered service on the Jubilee line in 1997; the plans included replacing the single leaf doors with double doors to speed up passenger boarding.

[11] The last 1983 Stock train ran on the Jubilee line on 9 July 1998, having been in service for just 14 years.

With the introduction of Night Tube services, additional stabling was required, so all nine cars were removed over the weekend of 27/28 June 2015, and taken to CF Booth, Rotherham for scrapping.

[13] One carriage of the stock has been preserved by the London Transport Museum[14] and another had been used as a studio by Radio Lollipop at Great Ormond Street Hospital, but this was recently scrapped.