Thread: Freight on the Metropolitan Line?
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Old February 28th 12, 12:12 PM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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Default Freight on the Metropolitan Line?
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Way back in 1907 the West Somerset Mineral Railway was briefly brought
back into use. The operators used an old Metropolitan Railway Steam
loco which was brought down on the GWR and delivered over a temp
connection from the Minehead branch to the mineral line. By all
accounts it had a few bumps and scrapes with GWR infrastructure on the
way and when the short period of use on the Mineral line came to an
end the GWR is supposed to have refused to handle the Loco again and
it left by sea. So Metropolitan Railway loading gauge being different
goes back a long way.


The Metropolitan Railway was originally built (from a junction with
the GWR at Paddington to Farringdon Street) to mixed standard and
broad gauge (7' 0¼") and was initially operated by the GWR using GWR
rolling stock. This is one reason why the Met has been able to
operate larger trains than standard.


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