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| Metropolitan 1 steam locomotive, celebrating 150 years of the Met line, in 2018. |
Living in Watford, which is the largest town in Hertfordshire, I have access to excellent transport links to London, as well as other areas of the country. Just 16 miles from Central London I have a choice of National Rail, London Overground services or Transport for London's Metropolitan line service. It is the latter that I invariably use.
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| Trains at Watford Metropolitan station awaiting the morning rush hour. |
The Metropolitan line station is just a 15 minute walk from my home and will get me to central London in just 40 minutes. I can also change to a different line like the Jubilee, while enroute, and end up in east London in a little over an hour.
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| Watford Metropolitan station decorated in celebration of 150 years. |
As this is the line that I most commonly use, and it being the first of its kind in the world, I thought I would do a blog about its history.
