Metropolitan Railway

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Construction and opening

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  English: Construction of the Metropolitan Railway near King's Cross station in 1861
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  English: Damage caused by the collapse of the Fleet ditch into the cutting of the Metropolitan Railway near Farringdon station in June 1862.
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  English: Praed Street junction near Paddington in the early days of the Metropolitan Railway

Maps

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  English: The Metropolitian Railway as it first opened in 1863
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  English: The Metropolitan Railway in 1867 with future lines shown
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  English: The Metropolitan Railway in 1873
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  English: A map of the Metropolitan Railway extension lines published in 1924

Railway stations and Goods Depots

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  English: Montage of drawings of the stations on the Metropolitan Railway when it opened
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  English: Farringdon in 1866
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  English: Bayswater in 1867
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  English: High Street Kensington in 1892
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  English: Kingsbury and Neasden station in about 1890
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  English: Metropolitan Railway Vine Street depot entrance in 1910-1915.

Steam Locomotives

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  English: The prototype fireless locomotive "en:Fowler's Ghost"
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  English: Metropolitan Railway A Class locomotive at London Transport Museum
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  English: Metropolitan Railway C class locomotive at Neasden, about 1890
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  English: Metropolitan Railway E class locomotive at Amersham in 1990
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  English: Metropolitan Railway K class locomotive

Electric Locomotives

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  English: Electric locomotive and train on the Metropolitan Railway in the 1920s
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  English: Electric locomotive in the 1920s
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  English: Metropolitan Railway locomotive number 12 "Sarah Siddons" seen at Amersham station in 2008

Coaches

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  English: Metropolitan Railway third brake 'bogie stock' carriage
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  English: Metropolitan Railway third 'Dreadnought' carriage
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  English: Metropolitan Railway milk van at Acton Depot
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  English: This preserved carriage running on Kent and East Sussex Railway was thought to be a District Railway first class, but now thought likely to be a cutdown Metropolitan Railway eight wheeler.

Electric multiple units

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  English: The joint Metropolitan and District Railway experimental electric train that ran between Earl's Court and High Street Kensington in 1900
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  English: T stock multiple unit at Neasden

Buses

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  English: The Metropolitan Railway ran connecting horse buses to many stations