London Underground battery-electric locomotives

London Underground battery-electric locomotives, most commonly known as battery locomotives are used for hauling engineers' trains, as they can operate when the electric traction current is switched off. The first two locomotives were built in 1905 for the construction of the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, and their success prompted the District Railway to buy two more in 1909, which were the only ones built to the loading gauge of the subsurface lines.

The locomotives have a cab at each end and are built to the standard 'Tube' loading gauge so that they can work over all lines on the London Underground network. They are equipped with buffers and draw hooks, for coupling to standard main line vehicles

The body sides panel are  louvers to allow ventilation around the batteries, the panels are hinged to allow the batteries to be removed. Following the withdrawal of steam engines, the vehicles often worked on open sections of line,

The traditional use of these locomotives has been to haul trains using power from the rails until they reach the area where work is to be undertaken, where they switch to battery operation if the traction supply has been isolated. They are also used for transporting diesel powered equipment such as track tamping machines through tunnel sections. Normally one locomotive is marshaled at each end of the train, allowing the train to be reversed easily.

EACH BODYS READY

A poster showing a bikini-clad model with the caption: 'Are you beach body ready?' has been voted the worst advert of the year. 

The billboard produced by Protein World claimed to promote weight loss but came under fire from feminists and body image campaigners who said it was body-shaming. 

Many of the posters, which appeared in the London Underground, were defaced and a petition calling for their removal received more than 70,000 signatures. London Transport has since had all these poster removed.

Posters showing the 24-year-old model Renee Somerfield were vandalised with feminist messages such as 'your body is not a commodity' and a mass protest was held in Hyde Park.

The company denied it was 'body shaming' and said it aspired to make the 'nation healthier and fitter'.

London Underground D78 Stock

 

The London Underground D Stock operates on London Underground's District line, except the Wimbledon to Edgware Road service. Following the withdrawal of the C Stock in June 2014, these are now the oldest subsurface trains in service on the London Underground. The first units were withdrawn in January 2015 with all due to be replaced by S Stock by December 2016

The D stock was ordered in 1976 to replace the pre-war CO/CP Stock and post-war R Stock on the District line. Seventy-five six-car trains were built by Metro-Cammell, Birmingham, the first entering service on 28 January 1980 with final delivered in 1983.

 

These trains are my first attempts at creating my own rolling stock.

I began with the purchasing some second hand carriages and engines from a locate  train show earlier this year, disassembling the engine from the bodies and cutting the carriage down in length

My first idea was to build the D stock out of Dapol trackside model C047 Rail buses  but I had brought 3 kits and discovered. I  would need  a lot of parts to build these trains

 

In the end I used the kits and second hand carriage,  I had cut down using rail bus wall panel to create the opening door panels added  a coat of paint and had completed my first of many D stock trains