R Stock unverified
The District's post-war fleet. Later batches had aluminium bodies, and one train left unpainted as a trial led to the silver look of 1960s stock.
Drawing to come
- Type
- Electric multiple unit
- Built
- 1949–1959 (plus converted Q38 trailers)
- In service
- 1949–1983
- Lines
- District
- Profile
- sub-surface
- Preserved
- R49 car 22679 at London Transport Museum, Acton; R38 22624 at Mangapps Railway Museum
This page is marked unverified: its figures haven’t yet been confirmed by an official source or a published history. The foot of the page says what’s in doubt.
Sources
- London Underground R Stock, Wikipedia
unverified all figures (Wikipedia only; not yet checked against a published history), builders