Metro-land
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Metro-land is a name given to the suburban areas that were built to the north-west of London in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex in the early part of the 20th century that
Metropolitan Railway electric locomotive and train (c.1928)
The town of Harrow, referred to as the "capital city" of Metro-land
Croxley Green (now Croxley) station (C. W. Clark, 1925)
Betjeman centenary: commemorative plaque unveiled by Candida Lycett Green, Marylebone station, 2 September 2006
Metropolitan Railway
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The 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
Metro-land
…the north-west of London in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex in the early part of the 20th century that were served by the Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met). The railway company was in the privileged position of being allowed to retain surplus land; from 1919 this was developed for…
Montage of the Metropolitan Railway's stations from The Illustrated London News December 1862, the month before the railway opened
Construction of the Metropolitan Railway close to King's Cross station in 1861
The cutting at Farringdon following the flooding from the Fleet sewer in June 1862
Metropolitan Railway A-Class 4-4-0T No 23 in Covent Garden