Metrocar 4049

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Metrocar 4049
StatusScrapped
Key dates
  • Ex-works[?] 29 January 1979
  • Accepted for service 17 March 1980
  • Pre-Wabtec[?] 21 August 2012
  • Post-Wabtec[?] 21 November 2012
  • Last known pax 28 November 2025
  • Disposed 2 December 2025
Grim reapers4074+4079
Held liveries
  1. PTE
  2. Orange Mobile ad
  3. Kidd & Spoor Harper ad
  4. Kidd & Spoor Harper ad (DDA)
  5. Nexus Grey


4049 was a production Metrocar built by Metro-Cammell at Washwood Heath, Birmingham.

Oddly 4049 had LED displays and new door buttons installed before its doors repainted from Grey to fully yellow to be DDA compliant at the time and door window surrounds installed instead of all the slight modification being done at the same time. 4049 was one of the very few units to never carry any of the RGB liveries.