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The 'Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon (MCCW)' was a Birmingham, England based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons, based in Saltley and subsequently Washwood Heath.
The company was formed in 1863 as the Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd (Successors to Messrs. Joseph Wright and Sons) of London. Joseph Wright built coaches for the London and Southampton Railway in 1837 and the London and Birmingham Railway in 1838. Wright moved the carriage works from London to Birmingham in 1845 where he purchased six acres of meadowland in Saltley, adjacent to the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway line.
It has made trains for railways in the UK and overseas, including the Mass Transit Railway of Hong Kong, Kowloon-Canton Railway (now KCR East Rail), the Channel Tunnel and locomotives for Malaysia's Keretapi Tanah Melayu. Diesel and electric locomotives were manufactured for South African Railways, Nyasaland Railways, Malawi, Nigeria, Trans-Zambezi Railway and Pakistan;