This video is a simple journey over the route used by District Railway trains, from South Harrow to Uxbridge. it is intended to complement no 1 in this series which shows nearly all of the route going the other way.
At 2'34 I say "South Ruislip". I meant to say "South Harrow"
The 6 mile branch from Harrow on the Hill to Uxbridge opened in 1904 and was little changed when, in 1912, the Ordnance Survey large scale maps of the area were updated. This recreation is firmly based on those maps and aims to bring to life a vanished world before suburbia and modernisation swept away the peaceful Middlesex countryside (as well as the slums and workshops of old Uxbridge).
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Important - Limitations of this medium
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I can only use the assets (houses, stations, rails, scenery etc.) available either in the base game or generously made available by modders.
The Metropolitan Railway used (and still uses) fourth rail electrification, with two driving tracks and two electric but there is no mod for this track and I have chosen to use non-electrified track instead.
There are very few models of houses, farms, cottages and shops of this period available for the game, so I have used whatever was to hand and I hope that the general impression is convincing even if the detail is not.
Some assets, like fences and doors, flicker. This may caused by problems with TF2 or perhaps my video card is not up to the job. Sorry.