16 Facts About Metropolitan line

Metropolitan line, colloquially known as the Met, is a London Underground line between Aldgate in the City of London and Amersham and Chesham in Buckinghamshire, with branches to Watford in Hertfordshire and Uxbridge in Hillingdon.

In 1863, the Metropolitan Railway began the world's first underground railway between Paddington and Farringdon with wooden carriages and steam locomotives, but its most important route became the line north-west into the Middlesex countryside, where it stimulated the development of new suburbs.

Harrow was reached in 1880, and ultimately the Metropolitan line continued as far as Verney Junction in Buckinghamshire, more than 50 miles from Baker Street.

Steam trains ran until 1961, when the Metropolitan line was electrified to and services were curtailed at Amersham.

Metropolitan Railway, known as the Met, was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.

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The Metropolitan line operated at a frequency of three trains per hour, rising to four trains per hour during the peak periods.

On 1 July 1933, the Metropolitan line was amalgamated with other Underground railways, tramway companies and bus operators to form the London Passenger Transport Board, and a period of rationalisation followed.

At Wembley Park the Jubilee Metropolitan line diverges to the Stanmore branch at a grade-separated junction.

Between Wembley Park and Harrow-on-the-Hill, the Metropolitan is four-track, with fast and slow lines paired by direction, paralleling the two-track un-electrified Chiltern Main Line.

The Metropolitan line ends at Amersham, where there are turnback sidings just beyond the platforms.

Metropolitan line is the only London Underground line to operate non-stop services through some of its stations, although since 11 December 2011 these only run on weekdays during peak times .

The Metropolitan line Railway opened a carriage works at Neasden in 1882 and the following year the locomotive works were moved from Edgware Road.

In 1961, when steam locomotives were replaced and the Metropolitan line was electrified to Amersham, the Underground service to Great Missenden, Wendover, Stoke Mandeville and Aylesbury was withdrawn.

Second short branch Metropolitan line, known as the Halton Railway, served RAF Halton near Wendover, across the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

The Metropolitan line was built during the First World War and closed in 1963.

Also known as the Croxley Rail Link, an extension to the Metropolitan line was to reroute the Watford branch from the current terminus using the disused Croxley Green branch line to Watford Junction.