"JohnA" stuck@home wrote in message
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It got as far as Verney Junction on it way to - where? Other mainline
attributes (not pretensions because they worked) was a Pullman car
from Verney Jct to the city.

Guy Gorton

To the Chairman's family seat, perhaps! There was a branch from Verney
Junction to Buckingham, which might have been in their minds. They might
even have had in mind a Chiltern Railways-like route to Oxford?

BTW there was a Pullman service from Chesham, too. Once the S stock is in
use the good folk of Chesham will think themselves spoilt just to be able
to
get a seat on the train!

Aylesbury to Verney Junction started off as the Aylesbury and Buckingham
Railway. In 1869 the Chairman was the Duke of Buckingham, whosev address was
WEotton, Aylesbury, and the Deputy Chairman was Sir Harry Verney, Bart, MP,
of Claydon House, Winslow. This was later taken over, as far as Verney
Junction, by the Metroplitan, and beyond there by the London & North
Western. The Wotton Tramway (Quainton Road to Brill) also became part of the
Metropolitan - it had been built with at least an eye on an extension to
Oxford.

Peter