When it opened in 1887 on an extension of the Metropolitan Railway, Northwood was out in the open countryside. Housing was quickly built around the station by Frank Murray Maxwell Hallowell Carew, a man with a name and life worthy of an adventure novel - it turns out developing Northwood was probably the least interesting thing he ever did.
The Metropolitan Railway themselves lead later housing developments around their stations, creating the suburbs still known as Metroland, which we examine the origins of in this episode.
We also feature the story of the "A stock" trains used on the Metropolitan line between 1961 and 2012, most of which were removed for scrapping via a siding at Northwood.
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