Editing Metropolitan line (section)

=== Former stations ===

[[File:LT loco L92 in 1969.jpg|thumb|LT loco L92 at Croxley tip in 1969]]
The [[Brill Tramway]] with stations {{rws|Waddesdon Road}}, {{rws|Westcott}}, {{rws|Wotton|Metropolitan Railway}}, {{rws|Church Siding}}, {{rws|Wood Siding}} and {{rws|Brill}} closed in 1935. In the following year, the line was cut back to Aylesbury, with [[Waddesdon railway station|Waddesdon station]] and {{rws|Granborough Road}}, {{rws|Winslow Road}} stations on the line to [[Verney Junction]] closing.<ref name="Rose" /> Initially {{rws|Verney Junction}} and [[Quainton Road railway station|Quainton Road]] remained open, with main line services provided by the LNER.

In 1939, the [[Stanmore tube station|Stanmore]] branch and the stopping service between Finchley Road and Wembley Park were transferred to the [[Bakerloo line]]. On the St John's Wood section, [[Lord's tube station|Lord's]] and [[Marlborough Road tube station|Marlborough Road]] stations were replaced by [[St John's Wood tube station|St John's Wood]], and [[Swiss Cottage tube station|Swiss Cottage]] replaced [[Swiss Cottage (Metropolitan line) tube station|the Metropolitan line station]].{{sfn|Green|1987|p=51}}<ref name="Rose" /> The Bakerloo line service to Stanmore was transferred to the [[Jubilee line]] when that line opened in 1979.{{sfn|Green|1987|p=63}}

In 1961, when steam locomotives were replaced and the line was electrified to Amersham, the Underground service to [[Great Missenden railway station|Great Missenden]], [[Wendover railway station|Wendover]], [[Stoke Mandeville railway station|Stoke Mandeville]] and [[Aylesbury railway station|Aylesbury]] was withdrawn.<ref name="Rose" />