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Metro-landMetro-land was a magazine published annually by the Metropolitan Railway's publicity department for the railway that went through the counties of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex to the North West of London. It contained photographs and descriptions of the areas around the railway tracks. The magazine formed a guidebook to encourage leisure travel and also facts and figures for the commuter. The 1924 edition of Metro-land featured the British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley and served by Wembley Park tube station. Margot Metroland was a character in Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall in 1928 (like Dickens, using a place name). The term Metro-land further entered into the public psyche with the publication of a song My Little Metro-land Home. Notes The spelling "Metroland" is now in common use, but the "brand" was Metro-land or METRO-LAND. Sir John Betjeman created a documentary film for the BBC called Metroland in 1973. See also External Links * Metro-land from Southbank Publishing
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