Who builds the London Underground trains?

Siemens Mobility will manufacture 94 new metro trains to serve the Piccadilly line. Transforming the travel experience for millions of passengers in London – the new, energy efficient trains will be state-of-the-art with more space, air conditioning, walk through carriages with improved accessibility.



In 2026, the primary manufacturer for the newest generation of London Underground trains is Siemens Mobility. Under a major contract worth approximately £1.5 billion, Siemens is currently producing the "2024 Stock" (also known as the New Tube for London) to replace the aging 1970s-era fleet on the Piccadilly Line. These new trains are being built at a state-of-the-art factory in Goole, East Yorkshire, as well as a facility in Vienna, Austria. Historically, London Underground trains have been built by various companies through the decades, including Alstom (which built the current Jubilee and Northern line fleets) and Bombardier (now part of Alstom, which built the S-Stock seen on the District, Circle, and Hammersmith & City lines). The new Siemens Inspiro-platform trains represent a massive tech leap, featuring the first-ever air conditioning on "deep-level" tube lines and a walkthrough design that increases capacity by 10%. This domestic manufacturing shift to Goole is a significant part of the UK's rail strategy to support local jobs while modernizing the world's oldest underground network.

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London Underground rolling stock includes the electric multiple-unit trains used on the London Underground. These come in two sizes, smaller deep-level tube trains and larger sub-surface trains of a similar size to those on British main lines, both running on standard gauge tracks.

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London Transport Museum and Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum are examples of venues that have preserved trains from decades ago. Tube carriage scenes in movies have often been shot at these museums and Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum's 1968 Victoria Line Tube carriage even has a monthly supper club.

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Bakerloo line This is the oldest stock still in use on the tube.

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THE world's deepest metro system is the Pyongyang Metro in North Korea which is 110 meters deep. The tunnel was built as part of an underground military facility. THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep.

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The Metropolitan line is the oldest underground railway in the world. The Metropolitan Railway opened in January 1863 and was an immediate success, though its construction took nearly two years and caused huge disruption in the streets. Read more about the Metropolitan line.

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Liverpool James Street railway station, together with Hamilton Square underground station in Birkenhead are the oldest deep level underground stations in the world, while London's underground stations were just below the street surface built by means of the cut-and-cover method.

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It is the first of 94 new Siemens Mobility trains destined for the London Underground and was built at a factory in Vienna before being moved to Siemens' Test and Validation Centre in Wegberg-Wildenrath, Germany.

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Opening in 1863 as Metropolitan Railway, the Metropolitan line includes the oldest underground railway in the world and starting the whole of the London Underground network.

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  • The world's busiest passenger station, with a passenger throughput of 3.5 million passengers per day (1.27 billion per year), is Shinjuku Station in Tokyo.
  • The world's station with most platforms is Grand Central Terminal in New York City with 44 platforms.


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About half of the underground lines, in terms of length, are actually on the surface when out of the central area. It is easier and safer to dig at depth in London because of the nature of the soil and to avoid other infrastructure and the Thames.

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Roding Valley Roding Valley is London's least used tube station. Roding Valley is found on the central line. Roding Valley transports around the same number of passengers in 1 year, that London Waterloo does in 1 day.

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the centre of London is North of the Thames. there was already a dense network of surface railways around inner South London by the time underground railways started to be built, so there was less reason to build underground ones. the clay soil of South London was not suitable for early tunnelling methods.

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Night Tube runs on Friday and Saturday nights on the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines.

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London Underground train speeds vary across our network, from as slow as 15MPH, up to 60MPH. The speed of the trains can be impacted by a range of factors including the track infrastructure, the type of signalling system, the distance between stations, and the frequency of services in the timetable.

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Introduction. The Bakerloo opened in 1906 and now runs from the Capital's north-west suburbs to inner city south-east London, between Harrow & Wealdstone (two adjacent districts) and Elephant & Castle (a historic pub). It has been through more changes than most other Tube lines.

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