London Underground 1938 Stock

The London Underground 1938 Stock is a tube stock design of which 1,121 cars were built by Metro-Cammell and Birmingham RC&W, with 173 more cars added to the fleet by the end of 1953, including 91 new builds known as the 1949 Tube Stock. It was used on the London Underground until 1988 and worked on the Bakerloo, Northern, Piccadilly, East London, Central and Northern City lines. The trains were a major technical advance because all the electrical equipment was located under the floor for the first time, whereas earlier tube stock had large equipment compartments behind the driving cabs that cut the space for passengers by about a third. Ten sets were refurbished and ran on the Isle of Wight as Class 483 until January 2021.