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The Great Central Railway - The London Extension from Marylebone to Helmdon

The Great Central Railway - Volume One

The Great Central was a well laid main line providing a fast route to the Midlands. It was the last main line to be built opening n 1898 and closing in 1966 and in this series we explore the route in the 1960s in the days of working steam.

Here, in the first volume, we travel from London Marylebone to Helmdon, just south of Woodford Halse and feature:
Watkins great plan for the ‘London Extension' and its building together the links with the Great Western Railway.
Marylebone Station its building and operations in the days of working steam together with the return of steam in the 1980s.
Through the London Suburbs.
The approach to Marylebone, the terminus itself and the line through Harrow on the Hill to Rickmansworth in the days of steam including steam on Metropolitan services.
Through the Chilterns. Steam on the line through Wendover and Stoke Mandeville including a ‘Britannia' and a ‘Scot'.
Aylesbury with main line trains, local trains to Princes Risborough and Metropolitan services.
The Great Western & Great Central Joint line through Princes Risborough Aylesbury to the North. The route through Quainton Road, Brackley to Helmdon Viaduct with a wide variety of steam traction.