London's streamlined tube train - Modern Wonder magazine August 1938
What a marvellous magazine cover by L Ashwell Wood showing the tube train wonder of the age speeding through a tube tunnel under London! The driver can be seen in the cut-away with controls looking much like an American PCC streetcar - joystick controls- and certainly not like London's tube trains of the day or the future. It is interesting in that by 1938 the new tube trains being delivered to London Transport would not have the streamlining as seen here that was trialled in 1935. The prototype streamliners were reconstructed with flat cab fronts and the 1938-tube stock went on to be the epitome of a London tube train for many years. The asbestos lined tunnels - a few sections were experimentally fitted, long before the true dangers of this material were understood, and the sections later had to be expensively decontaminated.
London's streamlined tube train - Modern Wonder magazine August 1938
What a marvellous magazine cover by L Ashwell Wood showing the tube train wonder of the age speeding through a tube tunnel under London! The driver can be seen in the cut-away with controls looking much like an American PCC streetcar - joystick controls- and certainly not like London's tube trains of the day or the future. It is interesting in that by 1938 the new tube trains being delivered to London Transport would not have the streamlining as seen here that was trialled in 1935. The prototype streamliners were reconstructed with flat cab fronts and the 1938-tube stock went on to be the epitome of a London tube train for many years. The asbestos lined tunnels - a few sections were experimentally fitted, long before the true dangers of this material were understood, and the sections later had to be expensively decontaminated.