London Underground 1959 Stock

The 1959 Tube Stock was a type of London Underground tube train built in the late 1950s by Metro-Cammell at the Washwood Heath Railway Works in Birmingham, intended for the Piccadilly line but also used on several other tube lines. It was the first production tube stock with unpainted aluminium alloy bodywork, closely based on the prototype 1956 Stock, and the driving motor cars seated 42 while the non-driving motor and trailer cars seated 40. It first entered service on the Piccadilly line on 14 December 1959, and 59 of the 76 ordered trains were first introduced on the Central line, entering service in July 1960. The units were withdrawn from mid-1998, and the last example was withdrawn on 27 January 2000, the last tube train crewed with a guard.