| In this final volume of the 3part illustrated history of the Metropolitan Railway the conclusion is reached for the main line with a station connecting with the Bletchley to Oxford line of the former London & North Western Railway. This seems unspectacular when comparing it with the terminus at Baker Street, a country station called Verney Junction, named after Sir Harry Verney of Claydon House. Nevertheless, with a branch to Banbury included, the junction at its peak was not so sleepy as it appears, with cross-country connections. If Verney Junction seems a modest terminus, it was exceeded in reduced dimension by the station at Brill from Quainton Road. This line is a fascinating recollection of trains serving a group of villages, most of the inhabitants of which would live out their lives never seeing London, but would watch trains with engines from there trundle through leafy undergrowth swaying along on a line that was engineered over the land rather than cut through it! Although all of this ceased in the mid 1930s, it is far from forgotten as the popular Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quianton will bear witness. Here it is possible to experience steam locomotives one of them Metropolitan, and enjoy a compilation of sights and smells frequented through these volumes. No Contents Listing Published Continent: Europe
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