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Wotton House (built 1704-14) was the second seat of the Grenvilles of Stowe and was usually occupied by the family's eldest son, the heir to the dukedom, known by the courtesy title of Marquess of Chandos. However, the third Duke of Buckingham, who had no children, continued to live there after he succeeded to the title in 1861 . He had been closely involved in the railways for some years, having been chairman of the London and North Western Railway 1853-61, a post that he took partly out of a need to restore his family's fortunes . The Brill Tramway was conceived for agricultural and industrial use on the estate.

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  • Wotton House (built 1704-14) was the second seat of the Grenvilles of Stowe and was usually occupied by the family's eldest son, the heir to the dukedom, known by the courtesy title of Marquess of Chandos. However, the third Duke of Buckingham, who had no children, continued to live there after he succeeded to the title in 1861 . He had been closely involved in the railways for some years, having been chairman of the London and North Western Railway 1853-61, a post that he took partly out of a need to restore his family's fortunes . The Brill Tramway was conceived for agricultural and industrial use on the estate.
  • Also known as the Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad and Metropolitan Railway Brill Branch. Privately built in 1871, becoming in due course part of the Metropolitan Line in 1933, but was closed in 1935. The Wikipedia page is [1] and has extensive coverage of the topic.
  • The Brill Tramway, also known as the Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad and Metropolitan Railway Brill Branch, was a six-mile (10 km) rail line in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England. It was privately built in 1871 by the 3rd Duke of Buckingham as a horse tram line to help transport goods between his lands around Wotton House and the national rail network. Lobbying from the nearby village of Brill led to its extension to Brill and conversion to passenger use in early 1872. Two locomotives were bought but the line had been built for horses and thus trains travelled at an average speed of 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h).
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