Metro-Cammell
Metro-Cammell, auch bekannt als Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW), war ein englischer Hersteller von Eisenbahnwaggons und Lokomotiven mit Sitz in Satlex und später in Washwood Heath in Birmingham. Das Unternehmen wurde im Mai 1989 von GEC Alsthom gekauft und beendete die Produktion im Jahr 2005.
Das Unternehmen produzierte zahlreiche Fahrzeuge für bedeutende Projekte, wie zum Beispiel die Züge der Hongkonger Mass Transit Railway, der East Railway Line oder für den Eurotunnel. Der Großteil der Fahrzeuge der London Underground, die um 1950 produziert wurden, sind ebenfalls Metro-Cammel zuzuschreiben.
Geschichte
1863 wurde die „Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd of London“ gegründet. Joseph Wright produzierte die Fahrzeuge anfangs noch in London, zog dann aber mit der Produktion nach Birmingham.
1902 fusionierten die Firmen Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company, Brown, Marshalls and Co., Lancaster Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Oldbury Railway Carriage and Wagon Company und Willingsworth Iron Company und wurden zur Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd.[1]
1929 wurde der Schienenfahrzeugbau der auf Schiffe spezialisierten Cammell, Laird & Company, die 1919 die Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company und 1923 die Wagenbauanstalt Leeds Forge Company übernommen hatte, als Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd, kurz MCCW, ausgelagert.
Die neu gegründete Firma wurde während des Ersten Weltkrieges dazu beauftragt, Panzer für die British Army herzustellen. So produzierte sie alle 1100 des hochentwickelten Mark V Panzers.
1932 wurde die Metro Cammell Weymann gegründet, um die bis dahin aufgebaute Busproduktion auszulagern.
Auch im Zweiten Weltkrieg war die MCCW im Panzerbau tätig.
Die Schließung durch Alstom
Im Mai 1989 wurde die Firma an GEC Alstom verkauft. Die letzten Fahrzeuge, Class 390 "Pendolino", wurden im Jahr 2005 für die Modernisierung der West Coast Main Line hergestellt. Die Werke in Birmingham wurden danach geschlossen.
Fahrzeuge
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Vollbahn
- Southern Railway "Brighton Belle" EMU
- Southern Railway "Crystal Palace" EMU
- Southern Railway "Coulsdon North & Sutton stock" EMU
- LNER Tyneside electric units
- LNER Shenfield line electric units (Fahrmotore und Zwischenwagen)
- LNER Glossop line electric units (Fahrmotore und Zwischenwagen)
- The Blue Pullman
- Metro-Cammell Lightweight "Heritage" Dieselfahrzeug
- British Rail Class 101 "Heritage" Dieseltriebwagen
- British Rail Class 111 "Heritage" Dieseltriebwagen
- British Rail Class 151 Dieseltriebwagen
- British Rail Class 156 "Super Sprinter" Dieseltriebwagen
- British Rail Class 175 "Coradia" Dieseltriebwagen
- British Rail Class 180 "Adelante" Dieseltriebwagen
- British Rail Class 334 "Juniper" Elektrotriebwagen
- British Rail Class 373 "TGV" Elektrotriebwagen für Eurostar
- British Rail Class 390 "Pendolino" Elektrotriebwagen
- British Rail Class 458 "Juniper" Elektrotriebwagen
- British Rail Class 460 "Juniper" Elektrotriebwagen
- British Rail Class 465/2 "Networker" Elektrotriebwagen
- British Rail Class 466 "Networker" Elektrotriebwagen
- British Rail Class 483 Elektrotriebwagen (Ursprünglich hergestellt als London Underground 1938 Stock)
- British Rail Class 503 Elektrotriebwagen
- British Rail Mark 4 coaching stock
- Arlanda Express (X3) Elektrotriebwagen
- Via Rail Renaissance Fleet
U-Bahn Systeme
London Underground
- London Underground Standard Stock (Bakerloo, Central, Piccadilly, Northern lines)
- London Underground 1935 Stock (Central line)
- London Underground 1938 Stock (Northern, Bakerloo, Piccadilly, East London and Central lines)
- London Underground R49 & R59 Stock (District line)
- London Underground 1959 Stock (Piccadilly line, then Bakerloo and Northern line)
- London Underground 1962 Tube Stock (Central line)
- London Underground 1967 Tube Stock (Victoria line)
- London Underground C69 Tube Stock (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City Lines)
- London Underground 1972 Tube Stock (Bakerloo line)
- London Underground 1973 Tube Stock (Piccadilly line)
- London Underground D78 Tube Stock (District line)
- London Underground 1983 Tube Stock (Jubilee line)
- London Underground 1986 Tube Stock (Central line)
- London Underground 1995 Tube Stock (Northern line)
- London Underground 1996 Tube Stock (Jubilee line)
- London Underground battery-electric locomotives
Andere Systeme
- Glasgow Subway rolling stock (Glasgow Subway, Scotland)
- Tyne and Wear Metro rolling stock (Tyne and Wear Metro, England)
- MTR Metro Cammell EMU (AC) (East Rail Line, Hong Kong – formerly operated by Kowloon-Canton Railway, leased to MTR post-merger)
- MTR Metro Cammell EMU (DC) (Kwun Tong Line, Tsuen Wan Line, Island Line, Tseung Kwan O Line, Disneyland Resort Line, Hong Kong – operated by MTR)
- Birmingham Maglev (Birmingham International Airport – 3 carriages built, in service from 1984–1995)
Weblinks
- Metro-Cammell Website
- Frühe Dokumente und Zeitungsartikel zur Metro-Cammell in den Historischen Pressearchiven der ZBW
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. Grace's Guide, abgerufen am 19. Dezember 2022.
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Autor/Urheber: Hugh Llewelyn , Lizenz: CC BY-SA 2.0
63'10" Pullman Parlour First No.243 "Lucille" of VSOE at Bristol Temple Meads, 07/08. Built by Metro-Cammell in 1928 for the LNER "Queen of Scots" Pullman service. It has Gresley bogies - so it still has a fine ride! in 1928 with Gresley bogies - so it still has a fine ride!
Autor/Urheber: hugh llewelyn, Lizenz: CC BY-SA 2.0
BR Diagram 1/112 unfitted, all-steel, rivetted, 16 ton mineral wagon No.B192437, built to a Metropolitan-Cammell design by the Royal Ordnance Factory, Dalmuir in 1946 to a Ministry of War Transport order for service in France where it became SNCF No.6.564437. In 1950 BR purchased the wagon which was refurbished by BR’s New Cross Gate workshops under Lot 2286 and assigned Diagram 1/112 (later TOPS Code MCO). BR purchased 7,000 such wagons from the SNCF in 1950 which had regarded them as too small; they were refurbished at BR New Cross Gate and BR Earlestown (which sub-contracted some of the work to Exmouth Junction, Bromsgrove and Barrow repair workshops) although only 6,982 were placed in service, the others being regarded as in too poor condition to justify remedial work. In addition, BR bought from the SNCF 1,892 16 tonners of Chas. Roberts design (with sloping sides), given Diagram 1/100 (1,867 placed in service) and 308 to Hurst Nelson design (305 placed in service) given Diagram 1/113, all originally ordered by the Ministry of War Transport or the succeeding Ministry of Transport for shipment to France after D-Day (which had received 10,000 in total).
Aside from those intended for France, the MoWT and MoT ordered 60,000 from many manufacturers of the three designs in WWII for service in Britain which post war were taken over by the LMS & LNER (5,000) and BR (55,000) which assigned them various diagrams (1/100, 1/102, 1/103, 1/104, 1/105). BR designed their own variant of the steel 16 tonner produced to several diagrams and an amazing 300,000 of these were built in 1950-59.
At the Somerset & Dorset Railway Gala, Midsomer Norton, Somerset 4 July 2021.(c) Walter Dendy, deceased, CC BY-SA 2.0
North Tyneside 2-Car EMU at Newcastle Central, 1950
View SW on Platform 4 in the largely separate north end terminal section (Platforms 1 - 7) of the station, to Platform 3; there stands an electric (600v third-rail) North Tyneside train of 1937-vintage LNER twin-unit stock.
(c) Col André Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0
Metropolitan Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. works plate
Location: Darling, Western Cape
Aktie der Metropolitan Railway-Carriage & Wagon Company Ltd. vom 24. Mai 1864
Autor/Urheber: The National Archives UK, Lizenz: No restrictions
Our Catalogue Reference: ZSPC 11/256
Description: Seven car tube train of the latest type; it has a rush hour capacity of about 1000 passengers and an aggregate motor output of 1220hp on the continuous rating
Date: c 1946
Images reproduced by permission of London Transport Museum © Transport for LondonAutor/Urheber: Oxyman, Lizenz: CC BY 2.5
London Underground trains do not pick up or drop off passengers at Kilburn High Road railway station. The station appears on internal London Underground (LU) maps as it is used as a reversing point by Bakerloo Line trains when they are unable to enter the LU platforms at Queens Park station due to scheduled work or failures and/or are prevented from reversing in the Up DC line platform there; the fourth rail (bonded to the traction current return rail) continues to Kilburn High Road to permit these manoeuvres but the carrying of passengers to Kilburn High Road by LU tube trains is not permitted as the platform height is matched to NR trains (platforms on this line north of Queens Park station are positioned at a "transition" height which is higher than that for normal LU platforms and lower than NR platforms). There are also one or two "rusty rail" journeys made by LU trains each day to keep the fourth rail clean for the relatively infrequent unscheduled diverted LU trains. This image shows a unit of London Underground 1972 Stock on one of these movements.