| A handful of photos taken on The Brill Tramway (or Wootton Tramway as it was also known). This outrageous venture opened around 1870 and was operated privately under the auspices of The Duke of Buckingham between Quainton Road and Brill, a spa village er.. in the middle of nowhere!!!! It was originally envisaged that it would extend to Oxford. It was absorbed and operated as a branchline of the Metropolitan Railway in 1906. In 1933 ownership was transferred to the London Passenger Transport Board, but even they realised that the galloping onslaught of urbanisation would never reach such an isolated outpost, and the trains last ran in 1935. |
01 The former station building at Wescott (thats the black shed on the right!), looking west towards Brill. By 1999 the adjacent cottage had been extended over the trackbed. Who would nowadays even suspect that London Transports predecessor would have operated trains here???? Buy Print |
02 Wootton Underwood is in the middle of nowhere... yet both the Brill Tramway and Great Central Railway both passed near this spot. This is the tramway looking east towards Westcott, curving around Navigation Spinney. Buy Print |
03 Moving eastwards from Wotton Underwood, the former tramway is now a farm track. Once you could travel along this route and with one change at Quainton Road, be delivered by train to the heart of Baker Street, London!! Buy Print |
