Wotton railway station (Brill Tramway)
Wotton railway station was built by the Duke of Buckingham in 1871. It was part of a private horse-drawn tramway designed to carry freight from and around his lands in Buckinghamshire. In 1872 the line was extended to the nearby village of Brill, converted to passenger use, equipped with steam locomotives, and renamed the Brill Tramway. Despite being a small rural station 49 miles by train from the City of London, Wotton became a station on the London Underground. The line’s entire infrastructure, including Wotton station, was sold for scrap at auction on 2 April 1936.
About Wotton railway station (Brill Tramway) in brief
Wotton railway station was built by the Duke of Buckingham in 1871. It was part of a private horse-drawn tramway designed to carry freight from and around his lands in Buckinghamshire. In 1872 the line was extended to the nearby village of Brill, converted to passenger use, equipped with steam locomotives, and renamed the Brill Tramway. Despite being a small rural station 49 miles by train from the City of London, Wotton became a station on the London Underground. In 1933 the Metropolitan Railway, which leased the line, was taken into public ownership and became the Metropolitan line of London Transport. The line’s entire infrastructure, including Wotton station, was sold for scrap at auction on 2 April 1936. All the station buildings at Wotton have been demolished, except for a small building which once housed the Brill tramway’s forge, and the station is now a private residence. The station is located on the edge of Wotton Hill, north of the hilltop town of Brill. Wotton is now part of the Bletchley Hill Estate, which is owned by the London and North Western Railway. The Wotton and Brill railway line was opened in 1872, linking the A&BR’s line at Quainton Road with the London Metropolitan Railway’s Oxford line. In 1897, through trains from the MR’s London terminus at Baker Street began on 1 January 1897.
On 1 September 1894, London’s Metropolitan Railway reached Aylesbury, and shortly afterwards connected to the A &BR line, with local MR services running to Verney Junction from 1 April 1894. Although the lines were not connected, a station was built on the new line very near the existing W Cotton station; the two stations shared a stationmaster. In the 1880s, it was proposed to extend the line to Oxford, but the operation of the line were instead taken over by London’sropolitan Railway. In 1889 the Duke bought two Aveling Porter engines, each with a top speed of 8 miles per hour. With the extension to Brill, the line began to be referred to as the Brillamway, and in 1894 the trustees of his estate set up the Oxford & Aylesroad Tramroad Company with the intention of extending the line from Oxford to the Buckinghamshire estate. In 1906 the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway was opened, crossing the Brilltramway at W Cotton. This led to an upgrading and extension of the lines from Wotton, via the original terminus of the tramway, to a new terminus at the foot of Brill Hill. The new Brill railway station opened in March 1872.
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