Metropolitan Railway E Class Locomotive due for delivery next month

Priced at £195.00 and available to order exclusively through the London Transport Museum website, the new OO model is available in DCC-Ready guise only and features a Next18 decoder interface, firebox glow LEDs and two etched metal headboards (‘150 Underground’ and ‘Underground Pioneer’)

About the prototype

Designed by T F Clark, the Locomotive Superintendent, this was the first class of locomotive designed entirely by the Metropolitan Railway. The first three were built at Neasden Works and were numbered 77, 78 and 79 although the latter became number 1 when it entered the service. Orders were planned for many more, but the rapid development of the electrification scheme meant that just four more were built by R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co in 1900 and 1901.

The usual duties of these locomotives were on trains to Aylesbury, although number 1 played a special role in the opening of the Uxbridge branch on Monday 4th July 1904, when it was decorated with flags and flowers on the inaugural service from Baker Street.

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