When the Underground Went to Aylesbury

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@CharlesTysonYerkesOfficial

My personal favourite was the proposal for the Underground to go to Continental Europe.

@skin150263

Back in 1960 I got taken to Aylesbury for a 9th birthday treat as I wanted to see the Underground trains which I always thought were very exciting. Imagine my disappointment when I saw that it was just boring old steam locomotives and not the electric trains I was hoping to see. I do remember the amazing frequency of the Metropolitan service though, just a non stop stream of trains arriving and leaving. As Jago says, all these years on the line still hasn't been electrified...

@daninellins

I travel up to aylesbury a lot and I cannot TELL YOU how often I wish the underground still reached there

@southcalder

The London Underground serving Buckinghamshire, is nearly as odd as the London North Eastern Railway serving the Scottish west Highlands.

@tooleyheadbang4239

It has long been my ambition to return the Metropolitan to Aylesbury. It could be done; even without the added electrification.

@user-mn4cc6bb7t

On my occasional visits to SE England, I have been past London Underground stations outside Greater London like Epping (Essex), Watford and Moor Park (Hertfordshire), and Amersham and Chesham (Buckinghamshire) and wondered how much the urban development that inspired Metroland in the first part of the 20th century might have reached had it not been for the Green Belt elements of the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947. There again, London is surrounded by a fairly comprehensive network of mainline stations, often in surprisingly small places, so perhaps it wouldn't have made much difference, if the Metropolitan Line still extened to Aylesbury. I think I may have answered my own question!

@michaeltajfel

Uniquely in the whole Underground system, the electrified track between Harrow on the Hill and Amersham, used by Chiltern trains between London Marylebone and Aylesbury Vale Parkway, is owned, operated and managed by London Underground. In particular, the Underground signalling system used on the track means that all trains between London Marylebone and Aylesbury Vale Parkway must have the Underground 'tripcock' system on board. That system is used throughout the Underground system to stop trains passing signals at danger.

@JW1_1

Interesting 🤔 and also, if my memory serves correctly, the bakerloo line used to go all the way to Watford Junction. Another tale from the tube perhaps?!😉🤷🏾‍♂️😁

@highpath4776

Dont you wish Jago was around in the late C19th. His advertising skills would be so useful in promoting rail routes , gaining investors, and shaping London's underground network (Hang on he's not Yerkes back again)

@tommilton5753

I seem to recall that Watkins had great plans for the Chesham branch, going on to Tring and the LNWR there. Perhaps Jago could enlighten us on this as well.

@phaasch

"In these wet fields, the railway didn't pay.

@Teddystream.

A man more than 100 years ahead of his time, and of his Channel tunnel is part of the the existing one, and he still made a better job than HS2 has done so far.

@timothynixon9437

I worked on the Metropolitan line for over 37 years, I always wanted it to go back out to Aylesbury, there were constant rumours that it would, but it never did...😢

@davidwhite3041

I well remember travelling from Woodford Halse to Aylesbury in the late 50's. Market day was on Saturday, the clock tower in the centre of the market stalls and it was a joy to browse around the area. Some Manchester - Marylebone express passenger trains stopped at Aylesbury en route which benefitted from both commuter and main line feeds. With Gresley A3,s and V2,s common place heading long distance trains ,sadly once Beeching had wheeled his axe Aylesbury become a terminus.

@VkmSpouge

Another weird bit of history in the London Underground, so nice to see my local station get a video and seeing all the different angles of it that you were shooting from.

@PokhrajRoy.

In Kolkata, there has been a similar issue of what constitutes the city. The metro line continues to extend in every direction.

@cjayos7654

Facinating video as always. Makes me wonder, was there a point in the 1930s where the underground could be used to travel from Aylesbury to Southend-on-Sea, using the metropolitan line and district lines? That would be an 80 mile journey!

@highpath4776

No Yerkes but Watkin is a veritable runner up.

@KarlVaughan

Thanks for coming to my hometown. I've got a photograph of the station from the 1890s, I believe. Sadly, I've never seen any photos of the temporary wooden station at the end of Brook Street. To be fair, there aren't that many photos dating back that far anyway so I would be very surprised to find one. Being a local historian I've read about the old railways and have found a lot of interesting bits of information about them. You mentioned the Aylesbury to Cheddington line - did you know that back in the late 19th century plans were put forward to connect both High Street and Town stations? The link was to follow the line of Exchange Street with a level crossing at Walton Street. I think the problem was that people didn't want that level crossing over such a busy road and also the owner of the Bear Inn, which stood in the way, didn't want to sell up. In the end it was just abandoned, probably down to it being too expensive.