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Metropolitan underground locomotive, 110V (Hornby)
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Metropolitan locomotive, made by Hornby (H-V).
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The original locomotive
The Metropolitan Railway was the World's first underground railway, with trains originally hauled by steam locomotives. The railway linked many useful locations in West London, and extended out into what became London suburbs after the new railway stimulated land development.
The use of steam engines in long underground tunnels was not ideal, and didn't create a wonderful experience for the passengers, even with special fittings to minimise smoke and sparks, and electrification was an obvious solution. The Metropolitan bought twenty "Electrical Multiple Units" in 1902, and then moved to separate electric locomotives and carriages.
The Hornby model can be compared to the newer locomotives made for the Metropolitan by Metropolitan-Vickers in the 1920s.
The Railway was later amalgalmated into what became the London Underground network, with parts of its tunnels used by a variety of different "tube" lines. The legacy of the Metropolitan Railway lives on in the London Underground's "Metropolitan Line", which uses some of the same tunnelling, and is named after it.
