LU Metropolitan Line + S7 stock, 2013-2023


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/B/Baker_Street_Met'>Baker Street [Met]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL S8 stock with a Metropolitan Line service terminating in the west side bay platform at Baker Street station, on 28th November 2012. The original platforms on the world's first Underground, the Metropolitan Railway, opened in 1863 but this side of the station, on the north, was added in 1868 with the first stage of the Metropolitan Extension Railway and which diverges from the original line just to the east of the 1863 platforms. The extension station has two through platforms for trains to and from Aldgate plus two bays for short workings, this one on the west side and the other on the east. 1/21</p><p>28/11/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Harrow'>West Harrow</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>The halt-like buildings to the south side platform at West Harrow station, on the LUL Metropolitan Line's Uxbridge branch, on a snowy 22nd January 2013. At this time, this entrance had no mechanical rottweilers (oops! sorry, I meant automatic ticket gates) so passengers were able to enter and exit without having their tickets checked. It is a long time since I've been to West Harrow so I am not sure if this is still the case. There is a new modern entrance on the north side that does have the barriers. The Harrow & Uxbridge Railway, an offshoot of the Metropolitan, was opened on 4th July 1904 but West Harrow station was not opened until 17th November 1913. So 10 months short of its centenary in this photo. 2/21</p><p>22/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Watford'>Watford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Watford_Branch_Metropolitan_Railway_and_London_and_North_Eastern_Railway_Joint'>Watford Branch (Metropolitan Railway and London and North Eastern Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>Two trains of LUL S8 stock at Watford station, on 26th January 2013. Under long-standing plans to divert trains via a new link to the old Croxley Green branch, relay that to Watford High Street and run Metropolitan trains to Watford Junction, this station would be closed and the go-ahead for this was given but later cancelled before any work was done. Although this terminus is somewhat remote from Watford town centre, it serves a large residential catchment area so just as well it is staying open. 3/21</p><p>26/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Ruislip_Manor'>Ruislip Manor</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL S8 stock on a Metropolitan Line service to Uxbridge departing from Ruislip Manor on 13th February 2013. This opened as a halt in 1912 in open countryside and was rebuilt as a station in 1938 by Dr. Charles Holden following residential development in the area. The station is also served by the Piccadilly Line. 4/21</p><p>13/02/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Eastcote'>Eastcote</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL S8 stock on a Metropolitan Line service from Uxbridge to Aldgate arriving at Eastcote on 13th February 2013. This station, also served by the Piccadilly Line, was originally a tin hut halt opened in 1906, two years after the line opened in 1904 and was rebuilt as a station in 1939 to the designs of Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the London Underground's Chief Architect between the two world wars. 5/21</p><p>13/02/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chalfont_and_Latimer'>Chalfont and Latimer</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL S8 stock on a Metropolitan Line service to Amersham arriving at its penultimate stop at Chalfont & Latimer station in Buckinghamshire, junction for the Chesham branch, on 27th May 2013. 6/21</p><p>27/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chesham'>Chesham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>A look along the platform from an LUL S8 train at Chesham station on 27th May 2013. 7/21</p><p>27/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chesham'>Chesham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL S8 stock at Chesham station, Metropolitan Line, on 27th May 2013. 8/21</p><p>27/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chorleywood'>Chorleywood</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chesham_Branch_Harrow_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Chesham Branch (Harrow and Rickmansworth Railway)</a></small></p><p>Chorleywood, owned by TfL and served by Metropolitan Line Amersham and Chesham trains and also National Rail Chiltern Trains services between Marylebone and Aylesbury Vale Parkway, looking towards London on a glorious 27th May 2013. Note the southbound Platform 2 sign that is still showing British Rail, 16 years after privatisation. 9/21</p><p>27/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chorleywood'>Chorleywood</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chesham_Branch_Harrow_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Chesham Branch (Harrow and Rickmansworth Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL S8 stock on Metropolitan Line service to Amersham arriving at Chorleywood on 27th May 2013. This ztfL station is also served by Chiltern Trains from Marylebone to Aylesbury Vale Parkway. When the East/West Rail is completed, Chiltern Trains will be extended to Milton Keynes Central via a reopened section of the old GCR main line and the Calvert spur on to the Oxford to Bletchley line (also to be reopened) at Claydon LNE Junction. Even with a change at Milton Keynes, the new route will provide Aylesbury again with a link to the Midlands and North which was lost when the GCR was closed in 1966 as part of the Beeching cuts. 10/21</p><p>27/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Barbican'>Barbican</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_Kensington_Extension,_Minories_Extension_Metropolitan_Railway'>South Kensington Extension, Minories Extension (Metropolitan Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL S8 stock on a short Hammersmith & City Line working to Moorgate departing from its penultimate stop at Barbican on a hot and sultry 13th July 2013. This station opened as Aldersgate Street in 1865 with the first extension of the world's first Underground, the Metropolitan Railway, from Farringdon Street (now Farringdon) to Moorgate Street (now Moorgate). It was renamed Aldersgate & Barbican in 1923 (although it was only ever shown on the LU diagram as Aldersgate) before being renamed simply Barbican in 1968. It once boasted a fine all-weather protection glass roof which was destroyed during the London 'Blitz' of World War Two. The frame was taken down in 1955 but it is still possible to see the support brackets above the arches on the walls. On the right are the disused Widened Lines platforms. For many years, this station was closed on Sundays but is now open full time again. 11/21</p><p>26/08/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Northwood_Hills'>Northwood Hills</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL S8 stock train with a Metropolitan Line service to Baker Street arriving at Northwood Hills station, on 14th September 2013. 12/21</p><p>14/09/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Northwick_Park'>Northwick Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/K/Kingsbury_and_Harrow_Railway_Metropolitan_Railway_and_Metropolitan_and_St_Johns_Wood_Railway_Joint'>Kingsbury and Harrow Railway (Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>LU S8 stock on a Metropolitan Line service to Uxbridge, arriving at Northwick Park on 26th September 2015. The line here opened in 1880 but this station was not opened until 1923 as Northwick Park & Kenton and became simply Northwick Park in 1937. 13/21</p><p>26/09/2015<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wembley_Park'>Wembley Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/K/Kingsbury_and_Harrow_Railway_Metropolitan_Railway_and_Metropolitan_and_St_Johns_Wood_Railway_Joint'>Kingsbury and Harrow Railway (Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>LUL S8 stock on inward bound Metropolitan Line service, just departed from Wembley Park on 26th September 2015. 14/21</p><p>26/09/2015<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Preston_Road'>Preston Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/K/Kingsbury_and_Harrow_Railway_Metropolitan_Railway_and_Metropolitan_and_St_Johns_Wood_Railway_Joint'>Kingsbury and Harrow Railway (Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>Preston Road, Metropolitan Line, looking south with a train to Aldgate on the left, on 31st December 2022. This line was opened by the Metropolitan on 2nd August 1880, but there was no station here until Preston Road for Oxendon Halt was opened, on the opposite side of the road bridge in the background, on 21st May 1908. It was resited during 1931/32, the south side of the island coming into use on 22nd November 1931 and the north on 3rd January 1932. Presumably, between those two dates, southbound trains continued to serve the 1908 halt of which no trace remains. 15/21</p><p>31/12/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harrow-on-the-Hill_Met'>Harrow-on-the-Hill (Met)</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Harrow and Rickmansworth Railway</a></small></p><p>Harrow-on-the-Hill, Metropolitan Line, looking north with a Watford train of LU S8 stock waiting to depart in pouring rain on 31st December 2022. This station opened on 2nd August 1880 as Harrow and was renamed Harrow-on-the-Hill on 1st June 1894. From 15th March 1899, the Great Central also served here from Marylebone with the station rebuilt in its present form by the LPTB in 1938. The residual service on the GCR, following its senseless closure north of Aylesbury in 1966, is now part of the National Rail Chiltern Line but the station is still wholly owned by Transport for London. 16/21</p><p>31/12/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harrow-on-the-Hill_Met'>Harrow-on-the-Hill (Met)</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Harrow and Rickmansworth Railway</a></small></p><p>Two different ways of displaying Harrow-on-the-Hill on LU roundels, as seen here on 31st December 2022. The one on the left has been there since at least the 1960s, the days when my cousin and I used to explore the Underground with a half price Twin Rover ticket; the roundel on the right is of more recent appearance. 17/21</p><p>31/12/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Ruislip'>Ruislip</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>Ruislip, Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines, remains substantially as opened in 1904 and a great reminder of a Metropolitan Railway turn-of-the-20th Century country station and a guide to the appearance of the original Uxbridge terminus, which was replaced by the present station in 1938. This was the only intermediate station on the Harrow & Uxbridge Railway when it opened. This view is towards central London on New Year's Day afternoon, 2023. 18/21</p><p>01/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Uxbridge'>Uxbridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>View from the concourse at the 1938 Uxbridge terminus of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines, with a train of S8 Metropolitan Line stock waiting to depart for Aldgate, on 1st January 2023. This station opened in 1938, replacing the original from 1904, and has changed little over the years. See image <a href='/img/76/410/index.html'>76410</a> from 1994. 19/21</p><p>01/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Uxbridge'>Uxbridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>Spectacular original London Underground signs with UndergrounD in initial and final enlarged letters and a 'tunnel' effect in between. Seen here outside the 1938 Uxbridge station, terminus of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines, on 1st January 2023. 20/21</p><p>01/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Uxbridge'>Uxbridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Uxbridge station, terminus of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines, as resited on the High Street in 1938 from the original 1904 terminus on Belmont Road, and designed by Dr. Charles Holden, seen here on New Years Day afternoon, 2023. 21/21</p><p>01/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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