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Verney Junction / Brill - Aylesbury - Amersham
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Verney Junction <<>> Winslow Road <<>> Granborough Road <<>> Quainton Road <<>> Waddesdon Manor <<>> Aylesbury <<>> Stoke Mandeville <<>> Wendover <<>> Great Missenden <<>> per Amersham

Brill <<>> Wood Siding <<>> Wotton <<>> Westcott <<>> Waddesdon Road <<>> Quainton Road poi percorso come sopra verso Amersham

Metro-land-map Metro-Land | Metroland | 1924 Metro-Land (1921)

LA CITTA' DELLE METROPOLITANE

METROLAND , che potrebbe essere tradotta come Metrolandia , era un Progetto ambizioso nato nei primi del 1900 a Nord Ovest di Londra , nel Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire e Middlesex . In Pratica e per poco, addirittura era una zona vicina ad Oxford ! Dopo diversi tentativi di insediamenti vicino alla nascente Metropolitan Line , ben presto si arrivò ad estendere questa Prima Metropolitana mondiale dal centro della City fino ad 80 Km da esso ! Nel 1915 , dopo che i Francesi hanno diffuso il Termine "Metro" in omaggio a questa Linea Inglese , che fino a questo periodo era chiamata invece da tutti "The Met" , viene pubblicato un Opuscolo di nuove Case residenziali , METRO-LAND . Dapprima la Metropolitan Railway ebbe la garanzia di circolare in quel territorio. Ma nel 1931 , causa i costi , Londra si compra la Metropolitan Railway e Tutte le Linee che costituiscono oggi le Linee della Tube : Metro-Land si è Estesa , ma per costi e difficoltà varie una parte dei Tratti viene chiusa e confinata ad Aylesbury , che rimarrà Capolinea della Metropolitan fino al 1961. Metro-Land però si era ormai arenata , ed il progetto non continuò.



Metroland è anche il nome di un Film del 1997 con Christian Bale e recentemente gli OMD hanno omaggiato nel Videoclip la Storia di questo Progetto allora avveneristico . qui viene riportata una serie di Stazioni dalla più lontana fino ad Amersham, l' ultima insieme a Chesham rimasta di Metrolandia.

  Verney Junction  

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Verney Junction railway station (1960s) Verney Junction Station T067-00064 R9085. Verney Junction looking towards Bletchley. 15th April, 1999. Verney Junction station, c1910 79900 to Verney Junction R1046. Verney Junction. 30th June, 1963.

  Winslow Road  

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Winslow Road railway station

  Granborough Road  

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Qui si arriva a Quainton Road , ma prima vediamo l' altro ramo parallelo vicino ad Oxford :

  Brill   (Capolinea ramo Oxford)

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DA TRAMVIA A CAVALLI a METRO
Questo Tratto era in realtā una Tramvia, la BRILL TRAMWAY o Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad. Era nata per volere del terzo nipote del Duca di Buckingham, e doveva collegare Brill con Quainton , ma il vero progetto era unire Brill con la cittā di Oxford . Aperta nel 1871, l'anno dopo venne adibita per i passeggeri con trazione a vapore monocilindrica ad una velocitā irrisoria (6 Km/h!) , finchč nel 1933 non viene inglobata nella METROPOLITAN RAILWAY ... tuttavia la durata č breve: il 29 novembre 1935 chiude il suo esercizio, e viene smantellata.

small wooden hut with a large wooden shed behind it. In front of the hut is a platform at two different heights, and in front of the platform are two sets of railway tracks. The tracks lead into a further pair of wooden sheds.
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THE CROSSING Discover Forgotten Metro-land; Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad timetable to Brill - the Brill Tramway, June 1910

  Wood Siding   (ramo Oxford)

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Wood Siding station.jpg
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Railways - Dead & Alive

  Wotton   (ramo Oxford)

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A single railway track curves sharply past a short platform with a small wooden hut behind it. A lone person stands on the platform. In front of the hut is a small shed with a very large overhanging roof, with another railway track terminating under the roof. An overgrown railway track diverges from the other two tracks, terminating at a set of buffers near another wooden hut surrounded by farming machinery and an apparently derelict horsecart. The tracks and buildings are all sited in a small triangular clearing, which is completely surrounded by trees.
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Map of a railway line running roughly southwest to northeast. Long sidings run off the railway line at various places. Two other north-south railway lines cross the line, but do not connect with it. At the northeastern terminus of the line, marked "Quainton Road", the line meets three other lines running to Rugby & Leicester, Verney Junction, and Aylesbury & London respectively. The southwestern terminus, marked "Brill", is some distance north of the town of Brill, which is the only town on the map. A station on one of the other lines, marked "Brill and Ludgersall", is even further from the town of Brill.
By Iridescent - Own work, based on maps appearing in From Quainton to Brill, Ian Melton, 1984 and Aylesbury to Rugby, Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10843621

  Westcott   (ramo Oxford)

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A small wooden hut labelled "Westcott". In front of the hut is a deserted low wooden railway platform with a short section at a much greater height; the only objects on the platform are three large lamps. A single railway track leads past the platform; the line branches immediately past the end of the platform. A cat is asleep on the railway track.
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  Waddesdon Road   (ramo Oxford)

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Small wooden railway station with a single rail track
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Metropolitan

  Quainton Road  

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Steam locomotive with three different designs of carriage, at a railway station
By Stated "Photo by F. Moore": the brothers A.R. Bell (d. unknown) and A. Morton Bell (d. 10 February 1936), together with A.C.W. Lowe (d. 3 February 1942), operated under the name "F. Moore's Railway Photographs"[1][2] - Melton, Ian (1984). R. J., Greenaway, ed. "From Quainton to Brill: A history of the Wotton Tramway". Underground. Hemel Hempstead: The London Underground Railway Society (13): 61. ISSN 0306-8609., PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28055536

Quainton Road Station Quainton Road Quainton Road Quainton Road Station Quainton Road Station, Bucks Quainton Road Station, Bucks 8X-005 Quainton Road Station circa 1985 METROPOLITAN RAILWAY 258 QUAINTON ROAD 090416 Change for Metropolitan Line R2413 Quainton Rd July, 1965 Quainton Road Quaintonian Quainton Road

  Waddesdon Manor  

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Map of mainly open countryside, with scattered villages. Four railway lines diverge from a station labelled Quainton Road. Two stations, labelled Waddesdon and Waddesdon Manor, are not near any populated area.
By Uncredited; published by Waterlow and Sons on behalf of the Metropolitan Railway - Metropolitan Railway Cyclists' Guide of Circular Tours and Road Map 1903, reproduced in (1999) No Need to Ask!, Harrow Weald: Capital Transport, p. 19 ISBN: 1854142151., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17420999

Waddesdon (formerly Waddeson Manor)

  Aylesbury  

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1961. 2-6-4T on Metropolitan Line 3. 1961. 2-6-4T on Metropolitan Line 4. Aylesbury & Buckingham Railway bridge close to Akeman St: TrackOnGcr017 1961. Metropolitan Line 'T' Stock. M996-00067 Out in the Sticks S Stock At Aylesbury

  Stoke Mandeville  

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67789 Stoke Mandeville Battery locomotives L 38 & L 18 at Stoke Mandeville Stoke Mandeville, 8 Apr 1960 61804_StokeMandeville_1233-Marylebone-WoodfordH_10-2-62 61380_StokeMandeville_1255-WoodfordHalse-Marylebone_10-2-62 CP Stock at Stoke Mandeville

  Wendover  

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Battery Loco L38 and L18 19811010 Wendover (MTA slide) 170410 Wendover IMG_0180

  Great Missenden  

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42248_nrGreatMiss_Aylesbury-Amersham 70050_nrAmersham_1438-Marylebone-NottVic_23-10-65 Great Missenden Station-Stuart King Chiltern Railways Class 165/0 unit at Great Missenden Battery locomotives L 38 & L 18 at Great Missenden 165009 - Chiltern - Great Missenden - 070612 UK - Buckinghamshire - Great Missenden - Departing from train station 42252_GreatMiss_to-Amersham_1-1-61 Great Missenden Station At Night Metroland

Verney Junction <<>> Winslow Road <<>> Granborough Road <<>> Quainton Road <<>> Waddesdon Manor <<>> Aylesbury <<>> Stoke Mandeville <<>> Wendover <<>> Great Missenden <<>> per Amersham

Brill <<>> Wood Siding <<>> Wotton <<>> Westcott <<>> Waddesdon Road <<>> Quainton Road poi percorso come sopra verso Amersham

 

 

Tratta Circle Line: Aldgate - Liverpool Street - Moorgate - Barbican - Farringdon - King's Cross St. Pancras - Euston Square - Great Portland Street

Tratta Principale : Baker Street - Finchley Road - Wembley Park - Preston Road - Northwick Park - Harrow-on-the-Hill

Ramo per Uxbridge : West Harrow - Rayners Lane - Eastcote - Ruislip Manor - Ruislip - Ickenham - Hillingdon - Uxbridge

Ramo per Amersham/ Chesham : North Harrow - Pinner - Northwood Hills - Northwood - Moor Park - Rickmansworth - Chorleywood - Chalfont & Latimer - Chesham / Amersham - METROLAND

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