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Westcott railway station was a small station built to serve the village of Westcott, Buckinghamshire, and nearby buildings attached to Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's estate at Waddesdon Manor. It was built by the Duke of Buckingham in 1871 as part of a short private horse-drawn tramway for the Duke's estates in Buckinghamshire and to connect to the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway at Quainton Road. In 1872 the tramway was extended to Brill to provide a passenger service becoming known as the Brill Tramway. In 1899, the operation of the line was taken over by the Metropolitan Railway.

Following the 1933 transfer of the Metropolitan Railway to public ownership to become the Metropolitan line of London Transport, Westcott station became a part of the London Underground, despite being over 40 miles (60 km) from central London. The management of London Transport believed it very unlikely that the line could ever be made viable, and Westcott station was closed, along with the rest of the line, in November 1935. The station building and its associated house are the only significant buildings from the Brill Tramway to survive other than the former junction station at Quainton Road. (Full article...)