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Which 7 stations were never Metropolitan?
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Never Metropolitan

• Ealing Broadway
• Earl's Court
• South Harrow
• Upminster
• Watford High Street (but will be soon)
• Willesden Junction
• Wimbledon



(unless of course you know better)
Nope, in total agreement DG. I had to think about Victoria though, but I think it was served by Met-District joint services.
I assume that Brill, Stoke Mandeville etc. were pre-Beeching?
I almost fell at the Cannon Street/Victoria hurdle until I remembered that the Circle was jointly operated. But Richmond and Kew Gardens? Well I never.
@Lyle - 'The Met' was absorbed by the new London Passenger Transport Board (the forerunner of TfL) in 1933 but the Brill Tramway was closed two years later in 1935. Great Missenden, Wendover, Stoke Mandeville and Aylesbury were served by the Metropolitan line until 1961, when electrification from Rickmansworth to Amersham was completed and services north of the latter were handed over to BR.
Kew and Richmond threw me, too
Kew and Richmond were served by a short-lived extension of the Hammersmith & City line from just north of Hammersmith, via a station called Hammersmith (Grove Road), to a junction just west of the District's Hammersmith station, and thence to Richmond.

Although this service was a failure and didn't last very long, a surprising amount of physical evidence remains. In particular, the large, crumbling and abandoned viaduct with no tracks on it which descends between the District and Piccadilly lines, and the apparently pointless footbridge at the north end of the H&C Hammersmith platforms (which used to be part of the passenger access to Grove Road, adjacent to the northwest).
Brill to Quainton Road is a great walk. You can follow the old track almost all the way, except for a field or two at the start or for a larger chunk which became an airfield and then a high-tech industrial site with heavy security.
South Harrow? The Metropolitan owned the line from there to Rayners Lane, but the regular service was provided from 1910 by the District, using running powers.

To quote Alan A. Jackson (London's Metropolitan Railway): "No regular service was given between South Harrow and Rayners Lane until 1 March 1910" (does this imply that there were occasional trains?) and "On Thursday 30 June 1904 the Metropolitan laid on a lavish opening ceremony ... A special train ... was worked from Baker Street to South Harrow and Uxbridge."

So Metropolitan trains certainly have appeared at South Harrow - but maybe not in normal public service.

There are also the odd instances of Mat trains being sent the wrong way at Rayners Lane and having to go to South Harrow to reverse!
I put Victoria instead of Earls Court - forgetting that the Circle was operated by the Met (Cannon Street is on the section built jointly by the Met and District)

But wasn't there a Met service to earls Court via Ladbroke Grove and Olympia?
@timbo: Wikipedia seems to suggest that the Middle Circle service from Kensington Olympia (then Addison Road) to Earl's Court was operated by the GWR.
ISTR that the Met worked the goods service to South Harrow, to supply the gas works.

Apropos the Met service to Richmond: this ran over the LSWR Kensington (Addison Road) - Richmond branch (also used by the District), via connection at Grove Road. It was withdrawn at the end of 1906, as the last steam service on the Circle, due to non-electrification Grove Road -Turnham Green - by then the District has built their own pair of tracks West from Hammersmith.

Pre WW2, Kensington Addison Road (Olympia) had two electric services - an LPTB Met service from Ladbroke Grove (and points east at times - a rump of the middle Circle, which had gone on to Earl's Court and Mansion House), and an LMS (ex LNWR) one form Willesden Junction to Earls's Court (using the West London Railway, rump of the Outer Circle)










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