Metrocar 4016

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Metrocar 4016
StatusScrapped
Key dates
  • Ex-works[?] 09 November 1979
  • Accepted for service 08 October 1981
  • Pre-Wabtec[?] 14 October 2014
  • Post-Wabtec[?] 28 November 2014
  • Last known pax 16 March 2025
  • Officially withdrawn 16 March 2025
  • Disposed 03 April 2025
Grim reapers4038+4059
Held liveries
  1. PTE
  2. Metro Radio ad
  3. Advertise on Metro ad
  4. RGB Blue
  5. Nexus Grey


4016 was a production Metrocar built by Metro-Cammell at Washwood Heath, Birmingham.

Oddly when 4016 had its DDA compliance updated by having its doors repainted from blue with the yellow Metro M triangle to fully yellow it kept the Metro M triangles and was one of the last unit's to have them.