Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
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Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (GRC&W) was a railway rolling stock manufacturer based at Gloucester, England; from 1860 until 1986.
GRC&W supplied the original fleet of red trains for the Toronto Subway, which were based upon similar vehicles for the London Underground.
[edit] Products
Rolling stock manufactured by the company is listed below:
Railcars
- Goods all-iron wagons 1862
- steel welded carriages 1933
- L-types cement wagons 1950s
- Pressure Discharge Bulk Powder Wagon ("Presflo") 1955-1963
- "Twin-Tub" Prestwin Silo wagons 1960-1962
- Cemflo Cement tanker wagon
Diesel multiple units
- British Rail Class 100 1956-1958
- British Rail Class 119 1958
- British Rail Class 122 1958
- British Rail Class 156 1987
Electrical multiple units
- London Underground E Stock 1914
- London Underground G Stock 1924-1925[1]
- London Underground O / P Stock 1937-1941[1]
- London Underground Q38 Stock 1938-1940
- London Underground R38/1 & R38/2 Stock rebuilt 1948-1953[2]
- London Underground R47 Stock built 1949-1950[2]
- London Underground 1956 Stock 1957-1959
- Melbourne (Australia) "Harris" trains 1956-1971
Subway cars
- G-series subway cars - for the Toronto Transit Commission 1954-1959
Special orders
- amphibious railcar - Magnus Volk’s Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Railway Company 1894
- 68ft "Palace on Wheels" - for Indian Maharajah 1936
Military
- pivoting sections for the Mulberry Harbour 1944
[edit] References
- ^ a b Hardy, Brian (2002). Surface Stock 1933-1959. Underground Train File. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-247-X.
- ^ a b Connor, Piers (1983). The 'R' Stock Story. Hemel Hempstead: London Underground Railway Society. ISBN 0 9508793 0 4.
