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#eeb47f; font-size:100%; padding-left:3em;">Type and origin</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.225em; line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.75em; width:36%;">Power type</th><td class="infobox-data">Steam</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.225em; line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.75em; width:36%;">Builder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway" title="Metropolitan Railway">Metropolitan Railway</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Neasden_Depot" title="Neasden Depot">Neasden Works</a> (3),<br /><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Leslie_and_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Hawthorn Leslie and Company">Hawthorn Leslie and Company</a> (4)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.225em; line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.75em; width:36%;">Serial number</th><td class="infobox-data">HL: 2474–2477</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.225em; 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class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.225em; line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.75em; width:36%;">Disposition</th><td class="infobox-data">One preserved, remainder <a href="/wiki/Scrap" title="Scrap">scrapped</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Metropolitan Railway E Class</b> is a class of <a href="/wiki/0-4-4T" title="0-4-4T">0-4-4T</a> <a href="/wiki/Steam_locomotive" title="Steam locomotive">steam locomotives</a>. A total of seven locomotives were built between 1896 and 1901 for the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway" title="Metropolitan Railway">Metropolitan Railway</a>: three by the railway at their <a href="/wiki/Neasden_Depot" title="Neasden Depot">Neasden Works</a> and four by <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Leslie_and_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Hawthorn Leslie and Company">Hawthorn Leslie and Company</a> in <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle upon Tyne</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_Railway_E_Class&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One locomotive became <b>Metropolitan Railway No.1</b> and was a replacement for <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway_A_Class" title="Metropolitan Railway A Class">A Class</a> (4-4-0T) No.1 which had been scrapped after an accident.<sup id="cite_ref-Casserley,_Later_Metropolitan_Steam_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Casserley,_Later_Metropolitan_Steam-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other locomotives were numbered 77 to 82. Number 77 is known to have been fitted with <a href="/wiki/Condensing_steam_locomotive" title="Condensing steam locomotive">condensing apparatus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is likely that condensing apparatus was originally fitted to the whole class, but later removed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Displacement">Displacement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_Railway_E_Class&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Displacement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>E Class</b> were displaced from the main passenger trains by the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway_H_Class" title="Metropolitan Railway H Class">4-4-4T H Class</a> in 1920, moving to lesser jobs such as trains on the <a href="/wiki/Chesham_branch" title="Chesham branch">Chesham branch</a>, goods trains and engineering duties. Following the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>, one E Class locomotive was regularly stationed at Rickmansworth station to cover a failure of <a href="/wiki/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway" title="London and North Eastern Railway">LNER</a> locomotives working Metropolitan Line trains north of this point. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="London_Transport">London Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_Railway_E_Class&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: London Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first locomotive was scrapped in 1935 before it could be given a new London Transport number, something that only four locomotives would receive. No.1 became L44, while numbers. 77, 80 and 81 became L46–L48. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Preservation">Preservation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_Railway_E_Class&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Preservation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Metropolitan_Railway_E_Class" title="Special:EditPage/Metropolitan Railway E Class">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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The original objective was to save the only remaining <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway_F_Class" title="Metropolitan Railway F Class">0-6-2T 'F' Class</a> locomotive numbered L52 in the London Transport fleet. LT offered this locomotive to him for £500. The Met Tank Appeal Fund raised just over £1,000, but when Stringer went to hand over the cheque he was advised that an inspection had revealed a cracked mainframe, and the locomotive could no longer be 'steamed', and therefore no longer suitable for preservation. However, he was offered L44 in its place for the sum of £450. </p><p>Stringer was helped by committee members of the London Railway Preservation Society, and a locomotive fitter named Gerald Fitzgerald.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The LRPS had storage for the locomotive at Bishops Stortford, and also at Luton where it was subsequently moved to, but the Quainton Railway Society offered a secure and permanent base for it at their newly established museum in Buckinghamshire. L44 (now correctly referred to as Met Loco No. 1) was moved there in the mid-1960s. No. 1 was maintained in main-line condition and was occasionally on its old lines during the "Steam on the Met" events which took place between 1989 and 2000. It received a full overhaul in 2001. </p><p>In 2007, No. 1 made its first visit away from Buckinghamshire Railway Centre since the 2001 heavy overhaul, arriving at the <a href="/wiki/Bluebell_Railway" title="Bluebell Railway">Bluebell Railway</a> on 24 July in order to take part in the "Bluebell 125" celebrations. While there, it was paired with four original Metropolitan Railway carriages that were restored by the Bluebell. During August 2008, it visited Barrow Hill, and it travelled to Llangollen in October 2008 to participate in their heritage events. </p><p>In 2010, an appeal was launched to fund the restoration of Number 1, and to fund its continued upkeep for the following ten years<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to enable it to participate in future heritage events. </p><p>In 2013 for the 150th Anniversary of London Underground, No. 1 was loaned to the LT museum for several trips between Olympia and Moorgate via Edgware Road on successive weekends in January of that year<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to honour the actual anniversary of the first underground journey from <a href="/wiki/Paddington_tube_station_(Circle_and_Hammersmith_%26_City_lines)" title="Paddington tube station (Circle and Hammersmith & City lines)">Paddington (Bishop's Road)</a> to <a href="/wiki/Farringdon_station" title="Farringdon station">Farringdon</a> on 9 January 1863.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The train was made up of Metropolitan Locomotive Number 1, Metropolitan Railway Milk Van Number 4, and the Metropolitan Railway Jubilee Carriage 353 (the oldest surviving operational tube carriage dating from 1892), both the property of the London Transport Museum. Coupled to these were the set of four 'Ashbury' Coaches of 1898 (ex Chesham Shuttle coaches 387, 412, 394 and 368, on loan from the Bluebell Railway) and <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway_electric_locomotives" title="Metropolitan Railway electric locomotives">Metropolitan Electric Railway Locomotive</a> Number 12 <i>Sarah Siddons</i>, owned by London Underground Limited. Several preservation bodies were involved in providing or restoring the rolling stock for the event<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the operation was given added impetus by the enthusiastic support of then London Mayor Boris Johnson<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his commissioner of Transport for London, Sir Peter Hendy CBE,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> himself a Transport enthusiast. </p><p>The following year, No. 1 pulled a similar combination of carriages along with <i>Sarah Siddons</i> along the route of the <a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_%26_City_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Hammersmith & City Line">Hammersmith & City Line</a> on successive weekends in August to mark the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the <a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_and_City_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Hammersmith and City Railway">Hammersmith and City Railway</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 22–23 June 2019, No. 1 steamed along a stretch of the District Line as part of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the opening of the <a href="/wiki/District_Railway" title="District Railway">District Railway</a> in 1868. Rolling stock used included former Metropolitan District Railway coach No. 100.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This event was billed as being probably the last time a heritage steam train would be seen in central London on the Underground due to the impending installation of a new signalling system on the network.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_Railway_E_Class&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Casserley,_Later_Metropolitan_Steam-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Casserley,_Later_Metropolitan_Steam_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCasserleyLater_Metropolitan_Steam" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/H._C._Casserley" title="H. 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