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Metropolitan Railway 4 and 8 wheel Coaches
When the Metropolitan Railway required coaches , having fallen out with the GWR, it introduced its own very similar 8
wheel (non bogie) coaches. The first 92 had square topped doors, but after that doors were
round topped.
With modernisation into the 20th century, some of these 8 wheelers were
extensively rebuilt into bogie coaches, and most of the rest had minor modifications . However many were sold off , including a batch to a French railway, which actually ran up till 1964, and some to the Isle of Wight Railway. The IOW ones were mainly of the semi modified version, and continued in use up till the 1930s. The Met also retained some for departmental use and some were used on the Brill branch .
4 wheel coaches
2nd/3rd class
1st class
milk van
originally part of a twin set introduced in 1869 supplied by Oldbury Carriage Company.
11 first class, 9 second class and 4 third class.
They were in effect half sized versions of the 8 wheel carriages.
Originally connected permanently with centre buffer. These were replaced with conventional buffers and sets split up from 1879.
In servivce they wre used to test out various innovations. Fitted with low pressure gas reservoirs on roof originally.
None survived into electric era apart from six first class coaches converted into milk vans.
Light weight and poor running resulted in single carriages and the milk vans always being positions inside sets of 8 wheel coaches.
The milk vans wee scrapped in 1900 when new vans were introduced.
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All 1st class Requires wheels and finishing |
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All 3rd class Requires wheels and finishing |
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Milk van conversion Requires wheels and finishing |
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All 3rd class Requires wheels and finishing |
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All 1st Requires wheels and finishing |
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Composite
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Short Brake
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Long brake
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All 3rd class
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All 1st
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Composite
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Short Brake
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Long brake
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