Metropolitan Main Line

Drivers Eye View

Aldgate to Amersham - Chesham - Watford – Uxbridge - You’ve seen the Hammersmith and City line, now here’s the mainline from the Driver’s cab of a refurbished “A stock” train.

In “Metropolitan and District” you saw the world’s first underground railway travelling in an easterly direction.

Now you can see it the other way as far as Baker Street.

Here we take the diverging Junction into one of the four dedicated platforms, from where, until recently, all off-peak services terminated.

From here northwards the railway is literally unique, the legacy of the Metropolitan railway’s ambitions to be a mainline in it’s own right.

Retaining the Underground’s only fleet of commuter-style trains, the A60 / 62 stock is seen in the midst of a major refurbishment program.

As well as the fast run to Amersham, much of it over multiple tracks, we take the branches to Uxbridge and Watford - the latter destined soon to become history.

Finally there is the Chesham branch - London Underground’s furthest outpost and it’s sole surviving single line.