Metro Cammell
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The Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon (MCCW) was a Birmingham, England based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons, based in the suburb of Washwood Heath.
It was formed in 1929 after Vickers Ltd and Cammell Laird and Co merged their railway-building interests (which included the Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company).
It has made trains for railways in the UK and overseas, including the Mass Transit Railway of Hong Kong, Kowloon-Canton Railway (now KCR East Rail), the Channel Tunnel and locomotives for Malaysia's Keretapi Tanah Melayu. The vast majority of the current and past London Underground rolling stock was made by the company, with a few exception.
MCCW also built bus bodies. In 1932, the business was combined with Weymann Motor Bodies and Metro Cammell Weymann was formed.
In May 1989, the railway business was sold to GEC Alsthom (now Alstom) Group. The last trains to be built at the Washwood Heath plant were the Class 390 "Pendolino" tilting trains for the West Coast Main Line modernisation, prior to its closure in 2005.
[edit] Notable Products
- British Rail Class 101 "Heritage" Diesel Multiple Unit
- British Rail Class 156 "Super Sprinter" Diesel Multiple Unit
- British Rail Mark 4 coaching stock
- Glasgow Subway metro trains
- M-stock metro cars (Hong Kong MTR)
- London Underground 1967 Stock (Victoria Line)
- London Underground C67 Stock (Circle Line)
- London Underground 1973 Stock (Piccadilly Line)
- London Underground D78 Stock (District Line)
- London Underground battery-electric locomotives
- Tyne and Wear Metro trains
[edit] Further research
- MCW archives at the Historical Model Railway Society, at Butterley in Derbyshire
- Birmingham City Council Public Records Office also has an archive of old Metro Cammel material
