A 1900 Metropolitan Railway trip to Brill and Verney Junction

A early-twentieth century trip north from Amersham to Brill and Verney Junction
We take a trip between Amersham and Aylesbury as filmed by the Metropolitan Railway itself before taking hyperrealistic recreations of 1900 train journeys to Brill and Verney Junction.
2023 recreations by Anthony Guter - / @anthonyguter - using Transport Fever 2 and based on original 1900-era Ordnance Survey Mapping
1910 movie: "A trip along the Metropolitan Railway", BFI
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[@siobhanlewis2706]

A remarkable technical achievement.

[@mikemoreno4469]

Amazing

[@TheUndergroundMap]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@user-dx3pj9fe1l]

Very good. Have always been interesting in Verney Junction. Writing a cat story about the station at the moment. Part of my Railway Cats of Wetherfield Junction stories. Brian

[@TheUndergroundMap]

Excellent. Looking forward to your story!

[@BigChris1998]

Loved that little window into the past

[@TheUndergroundMap]

Thanks!

[@anthonyguter]

Fantastic editing and sound mixing. Great job.

[@TheUndergroundMap]

I'm so pleased that you liked the end result. If ever you continue the old Met south from Amersham, the commute into London from Brill (changing at Quainton Road!) would be fun. But obviously that's a LOT of work!

[@jimthorne304]

Very interesting presentation. I believe the Brill branch was originally the Oxford and Aylesbury Tramroad, although it never reached Oxford. I was told that there would be a station at St. Clements. I've never seen any plans or documentation for this part of the line. When I was little we had a 'Buckingham' Ordnance Survey map at home, based on a survey from the 1930's but updated to 1948. The Brill branch had gone by then, but the line to Verney Junction was still extant, although all the stations were shown as 'closed'. I spent some time looking for the town of 'Verney', but couldn't find it, I later discovered that the Verney family owned the land on which the railway was built, and there being little in the way of habitations near the station, it was named after the landowner.

[@TheUndergroundMap]

The potential to extend to Oxford was one of the reasons that the Met bought the line - it wasn't so far. Plans, however, never firmed up.

[@jimthorne304]

@@TheUndergroundMap Ah, that's interesting. Now trains do run from Maylebone to Oxford, but by a more circuitous route!

[@henrybest4057]

I believe that the landowner, Lord or Mr. Verney was on the board of the Metropolitan Railway and thus had some further influence on the station's name.

[@stephenbourne4872]

When I worked on the BR bridge department at Reading in the 90s we used to check the railway bridges on the Aylesbury to Verney junction section. The junction where the line left the Main line near Quainton to head to Verney was called Upper South Farm Junction on old GCR / MET paperwork.

[@TheUndergroundMap]

Didn’t know that!

[@stephenbourne4872]

@@TheUndergroundMap I've never seen it called as such in modern books but only on the old official paperwork. A forgotten name? Love the video !

[@ggmtv1394]

Well done! It must have taken ages, but it's worth it.

[@gb5uq]

Be wonderful to see that old footage restored and colourized.

[@train-king460]

What happens to all the stations?

[@TheUndergroundMap]

Apart from south of Aylesbury, all gone

[@walterryan4383]

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