This is a guide arranged by organisation to the various units and individual cars that are currently in private preservation.
London Transport Museum.
Currently on display at the museum in Covent Garden is a District Line Q23 (G stock) Driving Motor Car, number 4248 along with Metropolitan Railway Bo-Bo locomotive Number 5. The museum has located at its depot at Ealing Common depot an R49 DM car 22679 along with a four car unit of Q stock that is being restored to operational condition - the unit comprises of Q38 DMs 4416 & 4417, Q23 DM 4184 and Q35 trailer car 08063. The museum also has a 1904 Metropolitan Railway EMU trailer car in store at another location.
Essex Rail Traction Group
This private group has a number of items located in Essex and east London. They are R38 DM car 22624 which is kept at the Mangapps Farm Railway, Essex; R49 DM number 21447 and CP stock DM number 54256 (pictured below) both of which are located at Low Hall museum in Walthamstow.
Spa Valley Railway
This line which runs from Tunbridge Wells in Kent to Groombridge is the home for the sole surviving pair of Metropolitan Railway T Stock driving motor cars, numbers 2749 and 2758. Both are now without most of their electrical equipment and see occasional use as steam hauled stock. They were formerly located at the North Downs Steam Railway in Dartford where they are pictured below.
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
This is the location for a complete three car unit of CO/CP stock. The cars concerned are CP driving motor 54233, CO driving motor 52028 and COP trailer 013063. the unit is privately owned and pictured below.
Bluebell Railway
The railway owns three coaches of Metropolitan Railway 1899 Ashbury built bogie stock that were hauled by both steam and electric locomotives, and were also part of the batch of such coaches that were converted to EMU cars by the Metropolitan Railway they are numbered 394, 368 and 412. A fourth vehicle of similar stock but built by Cravens in 1900 is also here, like the others it was used as hauled stock but spent a period converted to a driving motor brake coach for both the Met and later LUL until converted back to hauled stock with the other cars in 1940. This car is number 387. All four are under extensive restoration to their original steam hauled stock condition.
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