Metropolitan Railway electric locomotives

A year later another ten units with a box design and a driving position at each end arrived.

These 'camel-back' bogie locomotives featured a central cab,[1] weighed 50 tons, were 35 feet 9 inches (10.90 m) long over the buffers and had four 215 hp (160 kW) traction motors.

[2] The second ten, also constructed by Metropolitan Amalgamated, were built to a box car design with British Thompson Houston control equipment.

In the early 1920s, the Metropolitan placed an order with Metropolitan-Vickers of Barrow-in-Furness for rebuilding the twenty electric locomotives.

Nineteen of the names chosen were of people, real or fictitious, who had a connection with the area served by the Metropolitan; the exception was no.

12 Sarah Siddons, has been used for heritage events, most recently in January 2019 running in conjunction with Metropolitan Railway Locomotive No.

A black and white image of an electric locomotive hauling at least 6 coaches, shown with the electric locomotive on the right. There is an track in the foreground that is electrified with the fourth rail system, the locomotive is shown with two pickup shoes.
Metropolitan-Vickers electric locomotive and train on the Metropolitan Railway in the 1920s
Locomotive change at Rickmansworth, Metropolitan Line, August 1960
No 5 John Hampden at London Transport Museum, Covent Garden