Mark Brader wrote:
I've not seen the 2009 date suggested before, but people have been
trying to get rid of the Circle for at least 70 years.

If one wanted to go further back neither the Metropolitan nor the
District Railways wanted it in the first place.

The fact that the Metropolitan created the District Railway shows that
they did want it "in the first place".

The Met didn't create the District, it was a seperate company and the two
spent more time arguiing and at odds with each other than anything else. It
is also documented that neither the Met nor District wanted the Circle to be
completed because they had to be forced by an independent Act of Parliament
to build it.