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| rdfs:comment | - Cheaply built and ungraded, and using poor quality locomotives, services on the line were very slow, initially limited to . In the 1890s it was planned to extend the tramway to Oxford, but the scheme was abandoned. Instead, the operation of the line was taken over by the Metropolitan Railway in 1899.
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| image name | - Westcott railway station, 1935.jpg
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| Caption | - Westcott station in October 1935, shortly before closure
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| Start | - 1871
- Rebuilt 1894
- Start 1872
- Start 1899
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| Image Alt | - A small wooden hut labelled "Westcott". In front of the hut is a deserted low wooden railway platform with a short section at a much greater height; the only objects on the platform are three large lamps. A single railway track leads past the platform; the line branches immediately past the end of the platform. A cat is asleep on the railway track.
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| Quote | - On Saturday night, for the last time, an antiquated little tank engine drew an equally antiquated passenger coach along the seven-mile railway line between the Bucks villages of Quainton Road and Brill. The train contained officials of the Metropolitan Railway Company, including an assistant superintendent. It stopped at each of the five stations on the line. Documents, records, and all valuables from each station were placed in the guard's van and then the station lights were put out and the train steamed along to its destination at Quainton Road. Soon the engine and coach will be on their way to Neasden and the scrap heap.
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| abstract | - Cheaply built and ungraded, and using poor quality locomotives, services on the line were very slow, initially limited to . In the 1890s it was planned to extend the tramway to Oxford, but the scheme was abandoned. Instead, the operation of the line was taken over by the Metropolitan Railway in 1899. Following the 1933 transfer of the Metropolitan Railway to public ownership to become the Metropolitan Line of London Transport, Westcott station became a part of the London Underground, despite being over from central London. The management of London Transport believed it very unlikely that the line could ever be made viable, and Westcott station was closed, along with the rest of the line, from 30 November 1935. The station building and its associated house are the only significant buildings from the Brill Tramway to survive other than the former junction station at Quainton Road.
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