London Underground 1960 Tube Stock

The 1960 Tube Stock was a small prototype class of stock for London Underground consisting of twelve Driving Motors (DMs). The stock ran in 4 car formations with the addition of two trailers from earlier tube trains, either Standard Stock or 1938 Tube Stock. The DMs were made from aluminium and have four motors each. Other innovations bought in by this stock included the first 300 volt motors used in service trains and the use of fluorescent instead of tungsten-filament emergency lighting.

Driving Motor [1]

Information
Number built:	12 Motor cars
Built:	1960
Builder:	Cravens
Motor:	4 LT113 motors per car (630v DC fourth rail)
Power:	480 hp (358 kW)
Formation:	Driving Motor (DM) + Trailer (T) + T + DM

The stock was introduced onto the Central Line and remained in service until 1994, though spending most of it's time on the Woodford to Hainault section of the line. The stock was used to help develop Automatic Train Operation, the first ATO equipped train entering service in 1964.

Despite the success of the 1960 Tube Stock, plans to produce 338 more cars in a production batch were abandoned due to delays and the pressing need for new stock. Instead London Underground built the 1962 Tube Stock based on the earlier 1959 Tube Stock. Features from the 1960 Tube Stock did get used by the Victoria Line's 1967 Tube Stock.

Two 1960 Tube Stock trains survive, one is used by London Underground as a Train Recording Train (with a 1973 Tube Stock trailer [2]). The other has been preserved.

Converted Trailer [1]

[1] "New prototype tube cars enter service on London Transport", International Railway Journal (January 1961) Vol.1 Issue 1 p. 28

[2] Kim Rennie, Underground and Overground Trains (Capital Transport, 2017) p. 63