An antiquated tittle tank engine drew a S0-year-old passenger coach into Brill (Bucks) railway station for the last time on November 20.
The seven mile railway is to be no more, With the closing of this line a Unk with the early days of rail communteaiion will be severed, The Quainton-Brill tramway, as it was called, was built in the' sixties the Duke of Buckingham. The average speed of the one*and only train was about four miles an hour. The engine resembled a traction engine rather more than anything else and its chief feature was a huge flywheel, It cost the Duke about £1,400 4 mile to build the line, and there were level crossing gates, and for a groat many years these were opened by the driver and shut by the guard when the train had passed through. Later the line was taken over by the Oxford and Aylsbury 'Teamrod, and In 1913 it was absorbed into the' Metropolitan system. From thal tie unlll to-day the four trains each day have boon drawn by two engines -used on the original Inner Circle line, Increasing competition from road vehicles led too falling off in traMe during the last fow years, It Is now considered that the Brill-Quainton Line is no longer necessary,
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