On Jan 19, 12:08*pm, Jamie Thompson wrote:
Might be useful:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford...tation#History

...though I believe the article to be wrong. It claims "Revolution" as
the location, but other sources claim "Moon Under the Water". Hard to
tell from the photograph in the cited reference which is correct,
though I suspect it is in fact MUtW.

You are correct. The property at 44 High Street Watford was purchased
by the Met for its proposed town centre station (Watford Central?) It
was sold, later to become the Grange furniture store and subsequently
the Moon.

The W&RR built the line to Ricky in the late 1800s, the LMSR built the
Croxley Green branch around the early 1900s, then the Met built their
Watford Branch, with Watford Met opening in the 20's as direct
competition. The Ricky line had options over the early years of being
extended to High Wycombe (long before the GC joint line was
conceived), and apparently Uxbridge via Harefield.

To Uxbridge from Ricky (Church Street) was Lord Ebury's dream and the
option for extension that I have seen documented most often. IIRC
Goudie and Stuckey's excellent book, "West of Watford" (Forge Press,
now out of print), tells more of the story and of the albeit vague
proposals for the LM&SR's Croxley Green branch to loop back towards
Boxmoor and Berkhamsted.

THC