Metro-cammell

The Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon (MCCW) was a Birmingham , England based manufacturer of Railway Carriage s and Wagon s, 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 London Underground , Mass Transit Railway Of Hong Kong , the Channel Tunnel and locomotives for Malaysia 's Keretapi Tanah Melayu .

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 .

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

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