Metropolitan Railway Locomotive

Another Compass House product, this locomotive with its customised driving truck, is regularily seen at the Railway. The locomotive portrays one of the 20 electric locomotives built in 1922/23 by Metropolitan-Vickers of Barrow-in-Furness for the Metropolitan Railway line from London Baker Street to Rickmansworth. This powerful locomotive is driven by four axle hung motors powered by two 12v leisure batteries.