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Thanks Chap !
One gets older and memory starts to fade more and more !
One gets older and memory starts to fade more and more !
but not alwaysthe Aylesbury Line off the top of my head has the numbers increasing towards London, counting from some distant northern terminus of the GCR (well, it was the London Extension after all).
What happens at Aylesbury is of no relevance to the GCR, it is on the Metropolitan railway.
Although Aylesbury is undoubtedly Met/GC Joint, Quail shows that the mileage between Quainton Road and the LUL boundary at Harrow-on-the-Hill is measured from Baker Street, even on the NR section north of Amersham. North of Quainton Road and south of Harrow-on-the-Hill though, the mileage is from Manchester London Road. Is the mileage definitely the latter, even through Aylesbury?
Although Aylesbury is undoubtedly Met/GC Joint, Quail shows that the mileage between Quainton Road and the LUL boundary at Harrow-on-the-Hill is measured from Baker Street, even on the NR section north of Amersham. North of Quainton Road and south of Harrow-on-the-Hill though, the mileage is from Manchester London Road. Is the mileage definitely the latter, even through Aylesbury?
Re up and down; the up direction was always towards the then railway companys' HQ. Thus Midland Railway up towards Derby.