10 Facts About Metropolitan Railway

Metropolitan Railway was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.

None were successful, and the 1846 Royal Commission on Metropolitan Railway Termini banned construction of new lines or stations in the built-up central area.

Bayswater, Paddington, and Holborn Bridge Metropolitan Railway Company was established to connect the Great Western Metropolitan Railway's Paddington station to Pearson's route at King's Cross.

The Midland Metropolitan Railway junction opened on 13 July 1868 when services ran into Moorgate Street before its St Pancras terminus had opened.

Watkin was an experienced railwayman and already on the board of several railway companies, including the South Eastern Metropolitan Railway, and had an aspiration to construct a line from the north through London to that railway.

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The first section opened to the Great Eastern Metropolitan Railway's recently opened terminus at Liverpool Street on 1 February 1875.

Metropolitan Railway struggled to raise the funding and an extension of time was granted in 1876.

The Wycombe Metropolitan Railway built a single-track railway from Princes Risborough to Aylesbury and when the GWR took over this company it ran shuttles from Princes Risborough through Aylesbury to Quainton Road and from Quainton Road to Verney Junction.

Watkin was director of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Metropolitan Railway and had plans for a 99-mile London extension to join the Met just north of Aylesbury.

The Met ordered 20 electric locomotives from Metropolitan Railway Amalgamated with two types of electrical equipment.