London Underground R Stock the Edgware Road-Wimbledon route, where shorter platforms necessitated the use of C Stock. Three vehicles have been preserved. London Underground R Stock The London Underground R Stock electric multiple units were used on London Underground's District line from 1949 to 1983. Composed of new cars and converted Q38 Stock trailers, the cars were built and converted in three batches between 1949 and 1959. The cars were driving motors (DM) or non-driving motors (NDM), there being no unpowered trailers. The second batch, introduced in 1952, was constructed from aluminium, saving weight and one train was left unpainted as an experiment. Considered
Romford–Upminster line am and 8 pm on Sundays. The journey time from one terminus to the other is approximately nine minutes. During the construction of the railway in 1892, the geologist T. V. Holmes discovered a five-metre layer of boulder clay underlying the gravel and sand in a section just north of St. Andrew's Park. This is now the Hornchurch Cutting Site of Special Scientific Interest, which exhibits the southernmost limit of the Anglian ice sheet 450,000 years ago, the furthest south that any ice sheet reached. Romford–Upminster line The Romford–Upminster line is a railway branch line in Greater London that connects