Railway -London Metropolitan Electric loco 'Sarah Siddons' -museum postcard c70s

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• Picture / Image:  Electric locomotive No. 12 Sarah Siddons - Metropolitan Railway 1922/3 [now London Underground]
• Publisher: London Transport Museum
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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In the early 1920s, the Metropolitan placed an order with Metropolitan-Vickers of Barrow-in-Furness for rebuilding the twenty electric locomotives. When work started on the first locomotive, it was found to be impractical and uneconomical and the order was changed to building completely new locomotives using some equipment recovered from the originals. The new locomotives were built in 1922-1923 and weighing 61½ tons,^[3] they had four 300 hp (220 kW) motors, giving a one-hour rating of 1,200 hp (890 kW) and a top speed of 65 mph (105 km/h).^[4]

In 1925, no. 15 was exhibited on the Metropolitan Railway's stand at the British Empire Exhibition; the panelling was removed from one side, so that the equipment inside could be viewed.^[5] The locomotives were all named, the first nameplates being fitted on 18 March 1927. Nineteen of the names chosen were of people, real or fictitious, who had a connection with the area served by the Metropolitan; the exception was no. 15, the exhibition locomotive of 1925, which became Wembley 1924.^[6] Nameplates were removed during World War II.^[7]

In 1953 the fifteen remaining locomotives were overhauled and the traction control equipment replaced by BTH equipment from District line cars. Nameplates were refitted.^[8]

After electrification to Amersham was completed in 1961, the locomotives were withdrawn from passenger service although three were kept as shunters.^[8]

One locomotive, No. 5 John Hampden, is preserved as a static display at London Transport Museum^[9] and another, No. 12 Sarah Siddons, has been used for heritage events, most recently in January 2013 running in conjunction with Metropolitan Railway Locomotive No. 1 on steam excursions to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Metropolitan Railway.^[10]