3D Printed
Metropolitan Railway Dreadnought Coaches
and MV/MW/T electric stock
Competition with the Great Central Railway on outer suburban services on the extension line saw the introduction of more comfortable Dreadnought Stock carriages from 1910. A total of 92 of these wooden compartment carriages were built.
The first 2 coaches built were actually built as composite motor cars for the Harrow to Uxbridge shuttle service.
The design also formed the basis for the MW/MV electric stock introduced in 1920/30s. It had been planned to convert all Dreadnought coaches to electric stock, but plans to electrify complete Metropolitan line were delayed by WW2, and after the war sliding door stock was designed to replace slam door stock.
Initially 6 motor coaches were built in 1927 with normal buffers to run with Dreadnought coaches, and were vacuum braked hence being called MV stock. The other 6 were air braked and initially ran with various air braked stock. The MV
stock was eventually converted into MW stock, and once gearing was equalized between the original MV and MV coaches , trains could be composed of any air braked stock.
The success of the initial 12 MV/MW motor coaches led to modified designs being
introduced in 1929 and 1931. London Transport started making additional modifications to all motor coaches , replacing guard compartment with a passenger compartment to increase seating being renamed as T stock, and in this state they continued in service up to end of the 50s.
2 motor coaches are preserved.
3 examples of Dreadnought coaches have been preserved.
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Dreadnought all 3rd Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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Dreadnought Brake 3rd
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compartment) |
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Dreadnought Brake 3rd
( 6 compartment) 1923 batch |
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Dreadnought all 1st Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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Dreadnought Composite Motor Car
(Harrow-Uxbridge Shuttle) |
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1927 built MV motor coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1927 built MW motor coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1929 built MW motor coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1931 built MW motor coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1935 rebuilt 1927 MV/MW motor coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1935 rebuilt 1927 MW motor coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1935 rebuilt 1929 MW motor coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing
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1935 rebuilt 1931 MW motor coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1929 MW driver trailer coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1931 MW driver trailer coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1929 MW 3rd class trailer coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing |
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1929 MW 1st class trailer coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing
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1931 MW 3rd class trailer coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing
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1931 MW 1st class trailer coach
Requires bogies chassis wheels and finishing
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Pictures are just for reference, not of specific scaled model.
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All 3D printed designs by Simon Dawson (Rue d'Étropal) . Just follow links to Cults3d pages.
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