The Brill Tramway was a standard gauge 6-mile (10 km) railway, also known as the Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad and Metropolitan Railway, Brill Branch in the
Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire. It was privately built in 1871 by the 3rd Duke of Buckingham as a horse tram line to help transport goods between his lands around
Wotton House and the national rail network. Lobbying from the nearby village of Brill led to its extension to Brill and conversion to passenger use in early 1872.
Two passenger train locomotives were bought (the one in the pic is obviously an 0-6-0T), but the line had been built for horses and thus trains travelled at an average speed of only 4 miles per hour! The headquarters were in Brill from 1872 to 1899 when the Metropolitan Railway took over operations then London from 1899 to closure in 1935.
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