page_title: Waterloo & City line
section_title: New rolling stock in 1993
hierarchical_section_title: Waterloo & City line / Rolling stock / New rolling stock in 1993
caption_attribution_description: English: A train of modified 1992 stock stands at Bank station, on the London Underground's Waterloo and City Line.
context_page_description: The Waterloo & City line, colloquially known as The Drain, is a London Underground shuttle line that runs between Waterloo and Bank with no intermediate stops. Its primary traffic consists of commuters from south-west London, Surrey and Hampshire arriving at Waterloo main line station and travelling forward to the City of London financial district, and for this reason the line is normally closed on Sundays.
  Coloured turquoise on the Tube map, it is by far the shortest line on the Underground network, being 2.37 km long, with an end-to-end journey lasting just four minutes. In absolute terms, it is the least-used Tube line, carrying just over 15 million passengers annually. However, in terms of the average number of journeys per mile it is the second-most intensively-used line behind the Victoria line.
  The line was built by the Waterloo & City Railway Company and was opened in 1898. When it opened it was the second electric underground railway in London, following the City and South London Railway. For much of its existence, it was owned and operated by the London and South Western Railway, before it was nationalised into British Rail.
context_section_description: Toward the end of the 1980s the 1940 rolling stock fleet was giving increasingly difficult service. The decision was taken to acquire new vehicles as an extension to a rolling stock acquisition programme on the Central line of London Transport (LT). This required implementation of fourth rail traction current system to maintain consistency with the LT fleet: a new aluminium centre current rail was provided. (The original steel positive rail was replaced by an aluminium one in 2008.) The new vehicles had passenger operated door opening buttons, which were unlikely to be required on the Waterloo & City line.
  At the same time as the rolling stock project, the construction of what became the Eurostar terminal at Waterloo main line station was being planned, requiring construction over a large area on the north side of the station, and burying the Armstrong Lift. Also, the carriages of the new rolling stock were significantly longer than those of the 1940 stock and could not be accommodated on the Armstrong Lift. Since its removal, vehicles have been craned in and out of the Waterloo depot by a mobile crane positioned near Spur Road.
  On 28 May 1993 all of the old rolling stock was withdrawn, the train service being suspended temporarily. A temporary bus service was run while the old rolling stock was physically removed and the new rolling stock brought in, and the track and signalling works undertaken, with staff training. The line reopened on 19 July 1993, with a peak service frequency of 3½ minutes.
  Since its introduction, this stock on the Waterloo & City has diverged significantly from that used on the Central line through various modifications, including the adoption of automatic train operation on the latter, that the two are no longer interchangeable; the Waterloo & City line continues to use train stops.
caption: A train of 1992 stock in its original Network SouthEast livery stands at Bank on the Waterloo & City line.
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