1972 Tube Stock
The 1972 Tube Stock is an electric unit from the UK in Train Sim World. It comes with 2 routes, and another DLC brings it to 2 more.
Picture: New Journeys - Silver 1972 Stock, Dovetail Games.
Where you can drive it
Comes with
With another DLC
Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.
In the game
Names in Dovetail's lists: 1972 MkII Tube Stock, 1972 MkII Tube Stock LT.
In these DLCs: Bakerloo Line, West Coast Main Line: London Euston - Milton Keynes, New Journeys - Silver 1972 Stock, New Journeys Expansion.
From Dovetail's store page
- 1972 Mk2 Tube Stock in original Aluminium & Red livery
- 1972 Mark 2 Tube Stock in London Underground livery
The real thing
A London Underground tube train that first ran on the Northern line and moved to the Bakerloo line from 1999. 63 seven-car trains were built in two batches. Since the Isle of Wight's Class 483s went in 2021, they are the oldest trains in regular passenger service in the UK.
- Built by: Metro-Cammell (Wikipedia)
- Built: 1972–1974 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: 441 cars (63 trains) (Wikipedia)
- In service: 26 June 1972 (Wikipedia)
- Operators: TfL (Wikidata)
- Top speed: 72 km/h (45 mph) (Wikipedia)
- Formation: 7 cars per train (Wikipedia)
Photo: train_photos, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article London Underground 1972 Stock and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.