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The Metropolitan Line is the oldest underground railway in the world. In 1868 It broke free of it's original line from Paddington-Farringdon and extended north sharing a line with the Great Central Railway (formerly the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway) With the intention of the two railways complementing each other from London to Buckinghamshire However the two companies fell out leading to a long forced relationship that caused a railway line full of quirks and anomalies that survive to this day. This website aims to shed some light on little known facts about an often overlooked part of the Underground.