Metropolitan Railway

Metropolitan railway can refer to:

  • Metropolitan line, part of the London Underground
  • Metropolitan Railway, (historical) the first underground railway to be built in London
  • Metropolitan District Railway, (historical) the second underground railway to be built in London
  • Rapid transit railway system

Famous quotes containing the words metropolitan and/or railway:

    In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)