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Metropolitan Railway 'Jubilee' carriages indicative: some dimensions are estimated, from photographs and published figures.
Short four-wheeled compartment carriages, named for Queen Victoria's Jubilee year of 1887, when the first were built. Batches followed in 1889 and 1892, for the Circle and the extension towards Aylesbury. After the Metropolitan electrified they were sold to light railways, seven of them in 1907 to the Weston, Clevedon & Portishead.
- Type
- Carriages (four-wheeled)
- Builder
- Cravens
- Built
- 1887–1892
- In service
- 1887–1907
- Lines
- Metropolitan, Circle
- Formation
- 1 car, as drawn: first-class No. 353
- Car width
- 2.70 m
- Profile
- sub-surface
- Walk-through
- No
- Air-conditioned
- No
- Preserved
- No. 353, a first built by Cravens in 1892, at London Transport Museum (restored for 2013; on loan to the Kent & East Sussex Railway)
Sources
- Metropolitan Railway Jubilee carriage No. 353 London Transport MuseumNo. 353: Cravens 1892, one of 59 for the Circle and Metropolitan; 'Jubilee' from 1887; 8,400 x 2,700 x 2,300 mm; varnished teak; restored for January 2013
- Met jubilee coach 353 London Transport Museum Friendsbuilt 1892; sold 1907 to the WC≺ the museum's in 1974; restored 2012; run 2013
- A Great Survivor: Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Carriage No 7 Colonel Stephens Society (Brian Janes)a four-wheeled all-first of 1892; batches of 1887, 1889 and 1892; short wheelbase lengthened in later batches; seven carriages sold 16 July 1907
- Ex-Metropolitan carriages (Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway) Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway (Paul Gregory)seven four-wheeled Jubilee carriages bought in 1907; No. 7 (Met 353) the only survivor
- Genesis 4w Metropolitan Railway Varnished Teak, Twin Pack D (OO model, with a prototype history) Accurascalecolours only (secondary): varnished teak, white roof, black running gear
- Metropolitan Railway 1st Class Jubilee Coach (photograph of No. 353) Wikimedia Commons (Spsmiler, CC0)photograph: four compartments, doors and windows, curved ends, ventilators, colours
unverified
- The wheelbase and wheel diameter (not published; the preserved carriage's underframe is a donor's)
- The height: the museum's 2,300 mm is read as the height of the body, not rail to roof
- How many were built: 59 (the museum) or 32 in 1892 (a model maker)
- When they were sold (1907 is shown, from the three sources that agree): 1906 (one museum page), 1907 (the Colonel Stephens Society, from the Metropolitan's minutes, and the Museum Friends) or 1905 (a model maker); and when the last left Metropolitan service (1912, Wikipedia only)
- The build year of No. 353: 1892 (the museum and the Colonel Stephens Society) or 1897 (the WC&PR's page)
- Whether the museum's length of 8,400 mm is the body or the length over the headstocks
- The museum's own photograph note calls a Jubilee coach 'six-wheeled'; every other source says four