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LER 1926 Standard Stock Motor Car
London Electric Railway official photo.
1926 Standard Stock "B"
end driving motor (DM) car at Golders Green in its original
condition as delivered in 1927. Jumpers are coupled at floor level. The covers
for the jumper boxes can be seen just above the headstock. This
car has two, one for control, nearest the camera and one for
auxiliary. There is no jumper box for brake as this is before
electro-pneumatic brakes were fitted. Hoses are coupled at waist
level. The train line hose on the far side has a switch box next
to it which was used to indicate the end of the train for the
door closed indication (pilot light) circuit. Note also the
side chains. Next to the chain nearest the camera is the shed
receptacle box (tucked away under the headstock), where power was
plugged in while the train was inside a shed without current
rails.
Another point to note
on these cars is that there was no emergency lighting jumper
socket at roof level. They were originally provided on all car
ends of the 1923-5 Stocks but they were not required on the cab
ends of motor cars at the time because trains were no longer than
6-cars and DMs did not couple at the cab ends. This factor was
allowed for in the absence of emergency lighting jumpers on this
batch of cars. Emergency lighting jumpers also used to carry the
original train communication circuit, but only appeared on DM cab
ends again when 7-car trains were introduced and DMs had to be
marshalled in the middle of train formations.
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