 Great Western Railway had permission for a line from Ealing Broadway to a station near to CLR's Shepherd's Bush station, with a connection to the West London Railway and in 1911 there was agreement to connect the line to the Central London Railway and for the CLR to run trains to Ealing.Construction started in 1912 and the CLR ordered 24 new all-steel motor cars from Brush for the Ealing services.These were long and equipped with an incompatible traction control system, with automatic acceleration, controlling more powerful GE212 motors.