page_title: London Underground 2009 Stock
section_title: Introduction into service
hierarchical_section_title: London Underground 2009 Stock / Introduction into service
caption_attribution_description: English: A diagram of a London Underground 2009 Stock Driving Car. This is a surface victoria line train
context_page_description: The London Underground 2009 Stock is a type of London Underground train built by Bombardier as part of its Movia family at its Derby Litchurch Lane Works, England. A total of 47 eight-car trains have been built for the Victoria line, entering passenger service between July 2009 and June 2011 and replacing the 1967 Tube Stock. It was the first new train on the network since the 1996 Tube Stock entered service in 1997.
context_section_description: The design of the trains was finalised in September 2004. Manufacture of two pre-production trains began in January 2005, the first scheduled to be completed by mid-2006. On 3 February 2006, Metronet announced that the first of the pre-production cars had been completed in preparation for static testing. From 21 July to 4 August 2006, a mock-up of the train was on show at Euston Square Gardens, near Euston Square Underground station, for a customer acceptance test followed by public display.
  From September 2006, the first pre-production train underwent testing at Bombardier's manufacturing and test site at Derby Litchurch Lane Works. It was due to be delivered to London Underground by the end of 2006 for testing on the Victoria line during engineering hours but this did not occur until May 2007. It was also used for driver and maintenance training and familiarisation.
  The second pre-production train was also tested on the Victoria line during engineering hours, and was expected to begin trial running in full passenger service in July 2008. However, this date slipped twice, first to January 2009 and then to July 2009. The train finally entered service on 21 July 2009, leaving Northumberland Park depot at 23:00 and forming the 23:55 service between Seven Sisters and Brixton.
  Main production commenced at the end of 2009, with one train entering passenger service every two weeks from February 2010. By mid-2011, there was a sufficient number of trains in service to allow the withdrawal of the few remaining 1967 Stock trains, the last of which ran on 30 June 2011. By July 2011, the full fleet of 2009 Stock trains were in service.
caption: Diagram of the 2009 stock
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