London Underground 2024 Stock

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London Underground 2024 Stock
New tube for london final design.jpg
Finalised concept design of the 2024 Stock
Stock type Deep-level tube
In servicePlanned for 2025
Manufacturer Siemens Mobility
Built at
Family name Inspiro
Replaced 1973 Stock
Constructed2022–present
Formation9 cars per train [1]
Capacity1,042 per train (256 seated) [1]
Lines served Piccadilly
Specifications
Train length113.7 m (373 ft 3⁄8 in) [1]
Width2.648 m (8 ft 8+1⁄4 in) [1]
Height2.844 m (9 ft 3+15⁄16 in) [1]
Maximum speed100 km/h (62 mph) [1]
Power output2.5 MW (3,400 hp) [1]
Electric system(s) Fourth rail, 630 or 750 V DC [1]
Current collector(s) Contact shoe
Bogies Siemens Mobility SF1800 [2]
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Notes/references
Underground sign at Westminster.jpg London transportportal

The London Underground 2024 Stock, known as the New Tube for London (NTfL) during development, is a London Underground train being built by Siemens Mobility at its facilities in Goole, United Kingdom and Vienna, Austria. It is part of the Siemens Inspiro family of metro and rapid-transport trains.

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An initial batch of 94 nine-car trains has been ordered at a cost of £1.5 billion to replace 1973 Stock trains on the Piccadilly line, with options for a total of 250 trains allowing replacement of all existing trains on the deep-level Central, Waterloo & City and Bakerloo lines. The first train was delivered for testing in London in October 2024. Planned starting date for the service is the end of 2025, first on the Piccadilly line, with full deployment by the end of 2027. The trains will enter service with a train driver, with future potential for driverless operation.

History

Background

In the late 1990s, the Labour government initiated a public–private partnership (PPP) to reverse years of underinvestment in London Underground. [3] Under the PPP contracts, two private consortiums (Metronet and Tube Lines) would maintain, renew and upgrade London Underground infrastructure over a period of 30 years from 2003. [4] As part of the upgrade work, new rolling stock was to be ordered. [5] [6]

Tube Lines planned to order 93 new Piccadilly line trains, which would enter service by 2014. [6] In January 2007, Tube Lines started the procurement process, by asking whether train manufacturers would be interested in supplying them. [7] Contract award was anticipated for 2008, with trains to enter service in 2014. [7] Following the delivery of 2009 Stock and S Stock trains in the 2010s, Metronet planned to order 24 new Bakerloo line trains, which would enter service by 2019. [5]

However, Metronet was placed in administration in 2007 after cost overruns, [8] then Transport for London (TfL) subsequently bought out the Tube Lines consortium in 2010, formally ending the PPP. [9]

Feasibility and initial planning

Following the return to public ownership, TfL began planning the modernisation of underground lines not started by the PPP. This project would include the eventual replacement of trains, new signalling and other upgrades to the Piccadilly, Central, Waterloo & City and Bakerloo lines. [10] This would complete the modernisation of Underground lines started with the formation of TfL in 2000. [11]

In 2017, TfL said that existing trains on the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines were approaching the end of their useful lives, and the 1992 Stock used on the Central and Waterloo & City lines was significantly less reliable than more modern rolling stock. [10] [12]

Replacement of these older trains with open gangway rolling stock – similar to the S Stock used on the Underground's subsurface lines – would increase passenger capacity, with new automatic signalling increasing capacity further. [10] Although the use of open gangways was considered in the late 1990s, [13] the Bombardier 2009 Stock did not have open gangways. New trains would also have air conditioning, which earlier deep-level trains lacked. [10]

In 2011, Siemens presented "EVO" – a conceptual articulated train with walk-through cars, that would be 30 tonnes lighter, consume 17 per cent less energy and have 11 per cent more passenger capacity than existing trains. [14] [15] [16] A mock-up of the Siemens Inspiro design was exhibited at The Crystal between October 2013 and January 2014. [16] Siemens also proposed building the new train in the UK, after being criticised for building the Class 700 Thameslink trains in Germany. [17]

Potential of driverless operation

New trains would have the potential to operate automatically without a driver, which would save operating costs and prevent disruption during strikes. [18] [19] This unattended train operation would require the installation of platform screen doors, a substantial additional cost. [10] The ASLEF and RMT trade unions that represent drivers strongly oppose the introduction of driverless trains, saying it would affect safety. [20] [21]

In 2020, a leaked TfL study found that the upgrade work required for totally unattended train operation – platform screen doors at stations and a safety walkway in tunnels [22] – would cost around £7 billion, concluding that "the financial payback is negative". The study also indicated that automatically driven trains with a member of staff present on board (similar to the Docklands Light Railway) offered "reasonable value for money." [23] However, the Department for Transport pushed for the introduction of driverless trains as a precondition of any future long-term funding deal for TfL. [24]

New Tube for London

Mockup of Siemens' "evo" concept proposal Siemens-Inspiro-Tube-Train-Mock-Up-S2170011 (42124127184).jpg
Mockup of Siemens' "evo" concept proposal

In early 2014, the project was named New Tube for London (NTfL) and moved from a feasibility stage to the design and specification stage. A TfL feasibility study showed that new generation trains and re-signalling could increase capacity:

NTfL capacity increase forecast [10]
LineCapacity increasetphNotes
Piccadilly 60%36
Central 25%36
Waterloo & City 50%30Requires track remodelling at Waterloo
Bakerloo 25%27

Overall, the project is estimated to cost a total of £16 billion, with a benefit/cost ratio of 4.2 to 1. [18] [25] The Piccadilly line would be the first to be upgraded, given the age of its rolling stock. [26] Other lines would then be upgraded over a period of around ten years.

Bidding process

In early 2014, TfL invited train manufacturers to make expressions of interest in the Official Journal of the European Union . [27] [28] TfL also commissioned industrial designers PriestmanGoode to produce a conceptual design to be used by the train manufacturers. [29] [30] [31] Unveiled in October 2014 to high acclaim, [32] the design included several features not seen before on the deep level tube, including walk-through carriages and air conditioning. [33] [34]

In late 2014, TfL published a shortlist of manufacturers who had expressed an interest in supplying new trains – Alstom, Siemens, Hitachi, CAF and Bombardier. [33] The invitation to tender for the trains was issued in January 2016. [27] [28] It was planned to award the contract in 2016, with trains entering service in 2023. [26] During the tender period, Bombardier and Hitachi formed a joint venture (JV), and CAF chose not to submit a bid. Three bids (Alstom, Siemens, Hitachi/Bombardier JV) were submitted in September 2016. [11] All bidders proposed to build the trains in existing or new UK factories. [35] [36]

Contract award and future contract options

Since TfL could not afford 250 new trains and upgraded signalling, it decided to buy only 94 trains, for the Piccadilly line, and relegate future train purchases to contract options. [37] [38] [11] In 2019, TfL raised £1 billion to buy the Piccadilly line trains by selling and leasing back Class 345 Elizabeth line trains. [39]

In total, 250 trains could be ordered throughout the lifetime of the Deep Tube Upgrade Programme, comprising 100 trains for the Piccadilly line, 40 for the Bakerloo line, 100 for the Central line and ten for the Waterloo & City line. [40] Future trains would be adapted to meet the requirements of lines, with the potential of active steering of bogies, and different numbers of cars per trainset as required. [41]

In 2023, the Railway Industry Association requested that a decision to order Bakerloo line trains should be made as soon as possible, given the age of the 1972 Stock trains and to provide continuous work for the Goole factory. [42] TfL's financial issues following the COVID-19 pandemic means that the order has not been made, with Mayor Sadiq Khan requesting investment from Government. [43]

Siemens 'InspiroLondon'

In June 2018, the Siemens Mobility Inspiro design was selected, with 94 trains ordered in a £1.5 billion contract. [44] In July 2018, the award was challenged, unsuccessfully, in the High Court by the Hitachi/Bombardier JV; [45] Siemens was awarded the contract in November 2018. [46]

TfL said that the trains would be designed and built by Siemens Mobility at its planned £200 million new Goole factory in East Yorkshire, [36] and later that 50 per cent of the trains would be built at an existing Siemens factory in Vienna, Austria, while the Goole factory was constructed. [47] In July 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the Goole site to mark the start of construction of the factory. [48] [49] Manufacturing of the trains in Austria started in August 2021. [50] In January 2024, Siemens announced that the majority of the new trains, would be manufactured in Goole, 80% rather than half as initially planned. [51]

Despite the lack of new signalling, [52] the purchase of new trains will still increase the capacity of the Piccadilly line, with 27 trains per hour at peak times by 2027. [53] Trains will enter service with a human operator on board. However, new signalling could permit driverless operation in future. [18]

Features of the new train include: [1] [54] [55] [56] [41]

The trains are 7 m (23 ft) longer than existing Piccadilly line trains, and are composed of nine cars instead of six. [1] The new trains consist of two driver-motor cars on each end, a key motor car in the centre, and four shorter intermediate cars with bogies placed between each motor car. This design means that the train only has ten bogies instead of the twelve on a 1973 Stock train, giving space underneath the train to install equipment such as air conditioning. Siemens said the design was inspired by articulated trams. [57]

Delivery

Initially, deliveries were to begin in 2023, with entry into service in 2024. [58] By March 2021, the delivery schedule had slipped: the trains were then expected to enter service on the Piccadilly line in 2025, [47] [59] followed by improvements to stations and service levels in 2027. [53] [50]

Testing of the first train commenced at the Siemens Wegberg-Wildenrath Test and Validation Centre in Germany in mid-2023. [60] [61]

The first train was delivered on the morning of 15 October 2024, having travelled through the night of the previous day from Germany. [62] [63] As of October 2024, testing in London will begin in late 2024, with entry into service by the end of 2025. [63]

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