Metropolitan Line

The Metropolitan Line is a line of the London Underground. In its present-day form, it functions much like an overground suburban commuter railway: Baker Street station is its terminus, and as it reaches the outer suburbs of London it progressively branches off into several directions.

The line's operation is quite complex: fast services skip stations and overtake slower services. During peak hours, some trains run beyond Baker Street, further into London along the tracks of the Circle Line through to Aldgate.

The line has a complex history, and has seen many changes to its layout. It began as part of the low-level network which is now split into the Metropolitan Line, the Hammersmith & City Line and the East London Line.

Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Stations 1.1 Shared Circle Line track and main branch 2 Uxbridge Branch 3 Northwood Branch 4 Watford Branch 5 Towards Amersham

Stations

in order from east to west

Shared Circle Line track and main branch

• Terminus: Aldgate[?]
• Liverpool Street
• Moorgate[?]
• Barbican[?]
• Farringdon[?]
• King's Cross St Pancras
• Euston Square[?]
• Great Portland Street[?] (after this station no longer shares track with Circle Line)
• Baker Street
• Finchley Road[?]
• Wembley Park[?]
• Preston Road[?]
• Northwick Park[?]
• Harrow on the Hill[?]

The line splits here into two branches - the Uxbridge branch and the Northwood branch

Uxbridge Branch

(continuing from Harrow on the Hill)

• West Harrow[?]
• Rayners Lane[?]
• Eastcote[?]
• Ruislip Manor[?]
• Ruislip[?]
• Ickenham[?]
• Hillingdon[?]
• Terminus: Uxbridge[?]

Northwood Branch

(continuing from Harrow on the Hill)

• North Harrow[?]
• Pinner[?]
• Northwood Hills[?]
• Northwood[?]
• Moor Park[?]

The line splits here into two branches - the branch towards Amersham and the Watford branch

Watford Branch

(continuing from Moor Park)

• Croxley[?]
• Watford[?]

Towards Amersham

(continuing from Moor Park)

• Rickmansworth[?]
• Chorleywood[?]
• Chalfont and Latimer[?]

From Chalfont and Latimer station trains can go to Amersham[?] (as the majority do) or to Chesham[?]. Only in peak hours do trains run through to Chesham, at all other times a shuttle service runs between Chalfont and Latimer and Chesham