{"id":709776,"date":"2026-07-25T01:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709776\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:17:11","slug":"20th-century-tube-trains-and-carriages-to-ride-the-tracks-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709776\/","title":{"rendered":"20th century Tube trains and carriages to ride the tracks again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An opportunity to ride on vintage Tube trains will be on offer on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London Transport Museum (LTM) said fans of &#8220;1930s train chic&#8221; who buy tickets for the event will travel on a series of special services on the Metropolitan line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The historic Sarah Siddons locomotive that first went into service in the 1920s will be part of the journey alongside four 1950s ex-British Rail coaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passengers can also take a special trip on the museum&#8217;s restored 1938 burgundy art deco-style train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry Flynn,  curator at LTM, said the Sarah Siddons electric locomotive no. 12 is a rare survivor of the 20 in the original fleet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told BBC London: &#8220;There are now only two survivors &#8211; one is in our museum in Covent Garden and the other is the Sarah Siddons, the only one that is still working, so it&#8217;s very exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An opportunity to ride on vintage Tube trains will be on offer on Saturday and Sunday. The London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}