Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway

Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway
The Manchester to Marylebone express at Neasden Junction
Overview
Termini	Harrow on the Hill, Buckinghamshire, England Verney Junction, Buckinghamshire, England
Operation
Opened	2 April 1906
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge

The Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway was a joint railway company that controlled a line extending from Harrow on the Hill in what is now north-western Greater London to Verney Junction in Buckinghamshire, England. Owned by the Metropolitan Railway and the Great Central Railway, the railway was nationalised in 1948.

On 2 April 1906, the same day that the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway (GWGCJR) was opened, the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway (MGCJR) was created. This took over the lines of the Metropolitan Railway north and west of Harrow South Junction, with the exception of the branch to Uxbridge. These comprised the main line between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Verney Junction and the branches from Chalfont & Latimer to Chesham and from Quainton Road to Brill. The MGCJR was created under the terms of the Metropolitan & Great Central Railway Act, which received Royal Assent on 4 August 1905.

Management of the joint line was to be in alternate periods of five years by the two co-owners, the first five-year term being that of the Metropolitan. After establishment of the MGCJR, new stations were opened at Sandy Lodge in 1910, and at North Harrow in 1915.Aylesbury station was leased jointly to the MGCJR and the GWGCJR from 1907.