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Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway
In the centre is a steam locomotive with a train of carriages. Around the sides, several points allow for easy access to the different routes.
The Manchester to Marylebone express at Neasden Junction
Overview
Termini
  • Harrow on the Hill, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Verney Junction, Buckinghamshire, England
History
Opened2 April 1906
Technical
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge

The Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway was a joint railway company that controlled a line extending from Harrow on the Hill in what is now north-western Greater London to Verney Junction in Buckinghamshire, England.[1] Owned by the Metropolitan Railway and the Great Central Railway, the railway was nationalised in 1948.

  1. ^ Reed 1997, p. [page needed].

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