London Underground - Metropolitan Line
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LU A60/62 Surface Stock en route to Baker Street passing the Jubilee Line station at West Hampstead
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2009-08-05 12:17:00
 Baker Street station opened with the Metropolitan Railway 10.1.1863. Chiltern Court, named after the area into which the Metropolitan extended in the 1880s,was built above the station in 1929.
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2009-05-28 13:05:00
 Great Portland Street station opened with the world's first Underground, the Metropolitan Railway, as Portland Road 10.1.1863. Renamed 1907 and entrance hall rebuilt 1925
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2009-05-28 13:01:00
 Northwick Park station, opened 1923 as Northwick Park & Kenton, renamed 1937, looking away from central London towards the heart of Metroland
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2009-05-02 13:41:00
LU A60/62 Surface Stock en route to Northwood departing from Northwick Park
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2009-05-02 13:39:00
 LU A60/62 Surface Stock on short working to Northwood, the remainder of the line closed for engineering works, arriving at Northwick Park
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2009-05-02 13:39:00
 The Metropolitan Line reached Harrow-on-the-Hill from central London on 2.8.1880 but it was not until 28.6.1923 that Northwick Park & Kenton station was opened, renamed simply Northwick Park 15.3.1937
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2009-05-02 13:32:00
 LU A60/62 Surface Stock en route to Baker Street non-stopping Neasden which is served only by Jubilee Line trains even though platforms exist for the Metropolitan Line tracks
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2009-05-02 11:22:00
LU A60/62 Surface Stock on southbound Metropolitan Line train departing from Wembley Park with, on the right, a LU 1996 stock train arriving on a Jubilee Line service en route to Stanmore
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2009-05-02 11:11:00
 LU A60/62 Surfact stock on southbound service arriving at Wembley Park where interchange is made with the Jubilee Line
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2009-05-02 11:11:00
 Wembley Park station is a major interchange between Metropolitan Line semi-fast services and Jubilee Line stopping services
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2009-05-02 11:09:00
 LU A60/62 Surface Stock on a Metropolitan Line stopping service from Watford to Aldgate departing from Harrow-On-The-Hill
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2008-09-14 16:32:00
Nameboard at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Metropolitan Line, showing the ingenious way the long name was made to fit into the limited space of the world-famous London Transport roundel
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2008-09-14 16:31:00
 LU A60/62 Surface Stock departing from Harrow-on-the-Hill with a fast Metropolitan Line service to Baker Street
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2008-09-14 16:31:00
 LU A60/62 Surface Stock just arrived from Chalfont & Latimer at the delightful single-track terminus at Chesham, opened 8.7.1889
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2008-09-14 15:51:00
 LU A60/62 Surface Stock arriving with a Metropolitan Line shuttle service at Chesham, terminus of the single-track branch from Chalfont & Latimer
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2008-09-14 15:50:00
Chesham station, looking towards the buffers. This Metropolitan Line branch terminus has a real feeling of the past about it, thanks in part to retention of the water tower from bygone steam days
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2008-09-14 15:29:00
 The disused but well-cared-for signal box at Chesham
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2008-09-14 15:27:00
 This quiet country terminus at Chesham will soon be echoing to the sounds of, incredulously, a train of LU A60/62 Surface Stock, being part of the Metropolitan Line
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2008-09-14 15:27:00
 Chesham station and disused signal box, Metropolitan Line, looking towards Chalfont & Latimer
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2008-09-14 15:27:00
The exterior of Chesham station, opened 8.7.1889, which looks very much the country branch terminus of yesteryear rather than a London Underground station in the 21st Century
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2008-09-14 15:26:00
 The entrance hall to Chesham station, terminus of the Metropolitan Line branch from Chalfont & Latimer, with a plaque unveiled in 1989 to commemorate the station's centenary
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2008-09-14 15:25:00
 The Chesham branch train at the Metropolitan Line terminus, waiting to return to Chalfont & Latimer but there is not enough room in the destination blind for that station's full title
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2008-09-14 15:24:00
 Chesham station, opened 8.7.1889 and seen here on a Sunday afternoon, stands at the end of a LU Metropolitan branch that winds sinuously up the Chiltern valley to the main line at Chalfont & Latimer.
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2008-09-14 15:24:00
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