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This is my most recent tube train. I haven’t had much time to build recently so
I’ve been putting more stuff online.
The Standard tube stock dates back to the 1920s. It was a series of tube stocks
which were designed to be cross-compatable. The first was the 1923 prototype
stock. That and the subsequent stocks produced through to 1930 were intended for
operation on the Edgeware, Highgate and Morden (now called Northern), Bakerloo
and Piccadilly lines. The 1931 and ‘34 stocks were built additionally for the
Piccadilly line extension.
The cars were built by Metro-Cammell, Cammell-Laird, UCC (Feltham) and BRCW.
They enabled a multi-line standardisation of stock to simplify matters of
operation and maintenance. As with all Underground trains, they run on the 630v
fourth rail system.
My model is based on the early 1923/25 stocks, utilising the early livery -
which happens to be my favourite. As with my other tube stock models the motor
is hidden beneath a skirt . The blank section behind the cab on the driving
motor cars is where the control and switching gear was located, in all
subsequent stocks this was relocated to the chassis as the equipment became more
compact. The upswept frame beneath the control gear was because the driving
bogie there had 3ft wheels, as opposed to the 2ft8 ones characteristic of tube
stocks.
The Standard stock does have a clerestory roof, but at this scale it is
impossible to do, so I have used ordinary slope bricks. The cab windscreens are
SNOT and are braced behind the communicating door. I have used selective
compression to my ordinary system for tube stock models, to maximise performance
on Lego track geometry. The cars are joined by tow-balls and -sockets which
makes the cars appear more semi-permanently coupled and realistically spaced
apart.
Two of the three cars built and awaiting wheels, at the AGM.
This model was first displayed at the Brickish Association 2007 AGM and has
since been displayed at Petersfield Lego Show and Merrist Wood and Twyford Lego
displays.
PLMKWYT
Thanks,
David
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