QUAINTON ROAD TO BRILL (Wotton Tramway)

11th December 2005

The Wotton Tramway, later known as the Brill Tramway and eventually the Brill Branch of the Metroplitan & Great Central Joint Railway ran from Quainton Road to Brill in Buckinghamshire. For its last few years the line was an unlikely outpost of the London Underground system. It closed in 1935.
Waddesdon Road station was situated about a mile and a half north of Waddesdon, at the point where the tramway crossed Akeman Street (A41). Nothing remains today but the station site can be identified by the widened verge next to the road to Quainton.
Westcott was the next station and it has survived much better than any other. As well as the station house the timber station building also remains.
Wotton station was situated near to the GCR station of the same name. The station house remains but all other structures have gone.
Wood Siding was the penultimate station on the branch As well as being the only station in the country named after its siding, Wood Siding was an exeptionally remote and improbable station. Shortly after the turn of the century the GWR's new main line was constructed and passed under the western end of the station, somewhat shattering the tranquillity of the location.
The terminus at Brill was situated some considerable distance from the village itself at the bottom of a steep hill. Other than the station house, little remains today.

Mapping images used on this site produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Images reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.