බ්‍රිල් දුම්රිය ස්ථානය

**බ්‍රිල් දුම්රිය ස්ථානය**, එන්ගලන්තයේ was the terminus of a small railway line in බකින්හැම්ශයර්. මෙම දුම්රිය ස්ථානය බ්‍රිල් Tramway යන නමින්ද හැඳින්වූවා. එය සාදා නිමකර පවත්වාගෙන යන ලද්දේ Duke of Buckingham, එය පසුව ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ලද්දේ ලන්ඩනයේ මෙට්‍රොපෝලිටන් දුම්රිය ස්ථානය, හා 1933 දී briefly became one of the two north-western termini of the ලන්ඩනයේ උමං මාර්ග පද්ධතිය, despite being  and over two hours travelling time from the ලන්ඩන් නගරය.

Approximately  of a mile (1.2&nbsp;km) north of Brill, the station was opened in March 1872 as the result of lobbying from local residents and businesses. As the line was cheaply built, ungraded, and used poor quality locomotives, services were very slow, taking 1&nbsp;hour 45&nbsp;minutes to travel the six miles (10&nbsp;km) from Brill to the junction station with mainline services at Quainton Road. Although serving a lightly populated area and little used by passengers, the station was a significant point for freight traffic, particularly as a supplier of milk from the dairy farms of Buckinghamshire to Aylesbury and London. A brickworks was also attached to the station, but it proved unable to compete with nearby rivals and closed within a few years of opening.

During the 1890s, plans were made to extend the tramway to Oxford, but the scheme was abandoned. Instead, the operation of the line was taken over by the Metropolitan Railway in 1899, and the line became one of the railway's two north-western termini. It was upgraded and better quality locomotives were introduced, reducing the journey time to Quainton Road by almost two-thirds.

In 1933, the Metropolitan Railway was taken into public ownership and became the Metropolitan line of London Transport. The management of London Transport aimed to reduce goods services, and it was felt that there was little chance of the more distant parts of the former Metropolitan Railway ever becoming viable passenger routes. The line was closed on 30 November 1935, and all buildings and infrastructure at Brill associated with the line were sold at auction and subsequently demolished. The site of the station is now a light industrial development known as the "Tramway Business Park".

## Wotton Tramway
On 23&nbsp;September 1868, the small Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway (A&BR) opened, linking the Great Western Railway's station at Aylesbury to the London and North Western Railway's Oxford to Bletchley line at Verney Junction. On 1&nbsp;September 1894, London's Metropolitan Railway (MR) reached Aylesbury,
The first stage of the route, known as the Wotton Tramway, was a  line from Quainton Road via Wotton to a coal siding at Kingswood, and opened on 1 April 1871. Intended for use by horse trams, the line was built with longitudinal sleepers, to avoid horses tripping.

### Extension to Brill
 in London, shown at the bottom of the map. The blue bar marks the northern limit of London Underground operations after 1936, and the black bar the limit of LU operations after 1961.|alt=Map of a long railway line, ending at one end in a fork to two termini, and at the other end in a loop with a number of closely packed stations.]]
Lobbying from the nearby town of Brill for the introduction of passenger services on the line led to an extension from Wotton to a new terminus at the foot of Brill Hill, north of the hilltop town of Brill itself, With the extension to Brill opened the line was renamed the Brill Tramway. although a speed limit of  was enforced. The MR leased the Brill Tramway from 1&nbsp;December 1899,

## Services and facilities
Brill was a small town of 1,400 people when the line opened, and owing to the town's hilltop setting the station was  of a mile (1.2&nbsp;km) from Brill itself. On its opening, there was one station building, which served as the freight depot, passenger terminal, and ticket office. Next to it was a siding that led to a cattle pen. Following the 1899 transfer of services to the Metropolitan Railway, the station was served by four trains per day until its closure in 1935. Improvements to the line carried out at the time of the transfer to the Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad, and the use of the MR's better quality rolling stock, reduced the journey time from Brill to Quainton Road to between 32 and 36 minutes.

### Goods facilities
Although little used by passengers, Brill station was valuable as a relatively rapid link between the dairy farms of Buckinghamshire and the markets of Aylesbury and London; around 30 carts per day would deliver milk to Brill station for the first train each morning. In addition, a storehouse at the station held beer supplied by the breweries of Brackley and Aylesbury. Bricks and tiles from the brick and tile factories of Brill were used in the construction of Waddesdon Manor, near the eastern end of the Brill Tramway, between 1874 and 1889. Frank Pick, Managing Director of the Underground Group from 1928 and the Chief Executive of the LPTB, aimed to move the network away from freight services, and saw the lines beyond Aylesbury via Quainton Road to Brill and Verney Junction as having little future as financially viable passenger routes, concluding that over £2,000 (about £ as of ) would be saved by closing the Brill Tramway. As a consequence, the LPTB decided to withdraw all passenger services beyond Aylesbury. the last services ran on 30&nbsp;November.

Upon the withdrawal of London Transport services the lease expired, and the railway and stations reverted to the Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad Company. With no funds and no rolling stock of its own, the O&ATC was unable to operate the line, and on 2&nbsp;April 1936 the entire infrastructure of the line was sold at auction.

## See also
*Infrastructure of the Brill Tramway

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