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4 unusual facts about Metropolitan railway


Fowler baronets

The Baronetcy of Fowler of Braemore was a title created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 17 April 1890, for Sir John Fowler, civil engineer for the Metropolitan Railway and the Forth Railway Bridge.

Joseph Tomlinson

From 1872 to 1885, he was resident engineer and locomotive superintendent of the Metropolitan Railway.

Metropolitan railway

Metropolitan District Railway, (historical) the second underground railway to be built in London

Metropolitan Railway, (historical) the first underground railway to be built in London


Annie and Clarabel

The television versions of the characters bear a strong resemblance to coaches of the Metropolitan Railway, part of what is now the London Underground.

District Railway

When in 1871 the District Railway needed its own locomotives, they ordered twenty four condensing steam locomotives from Beyer Peacock similar to the A Class locomotives the Metropolitan Railway was using on the route.

Harrow and Uxbridge Railway

In 1904, it opened what is now the Uxbridge branch of the Metropolitan line, connecting Uxbridge to the Metropolitan Railway near Roxborough Lane (now Roxborough Road) close to Harrow-on-the-Hill station.

LSWR suburban lines

As well as the developments that were actually implemented (see below) the Metropolitan Railway and the Central London Railway both developed schemes in the years running up to 1914 for extensions of traffic, or new routes, into LSWR territory.

Metropolitan Railway Estates Company Ltd

A company created in 1919 to manage and develop the lands owned by the Metropolitan Railway, known as Metroland: some of the lands had been previously handled by the Surplus Lands Committee, established in the first years of the 20th century.

River Chess

Historically, the clear chalk stream water of the River Chess, together with the fertile land, was ideal for growing watercress, and this industry which flourished in both Chesham and Rickmansworth in the Victorian era supplied London being transported on the newly constructed Metropolitan Railway.

Thomas Gwyn Elger

He was engaged in several important works, including the Metropolitan Railway and the Severn Valley Railway.


see also

Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris

The Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (Paris Metropolitan Railway Company), or CMP, was the forerunner of the RATP, the company managing the Parisian Underground.

Grosvenor P. Lowrey

Grosvenor P. Lowrey (September 25, 1831 - April 21, 1893) was a 19th-century corporate attorney who served as consul to numerous powerful interests like Thomas Edison, Western Union, Wells Fargo and The New York Metropolitan Railway Company.

Wotton railway station

Frank Pick, the Chief Executive of the London Passenger Transport Board, aimed to abandon freight operations on the London Underground network, and saw no way in which the more distant parts of the former Metropolitan Railway could ever become viable passenger routes.