 While construction of the Chesham and Aylesbury lines was underway Watkin continued to press for the extension from Chesham to the LNWR , as did prominent manufacturers in Chesham . However , construction of the extensions had left the MR seriously exposed financially , forcing the board to cut dividends in July 1889 . At a Special General Meeting on 12 February 1890 matters came to a head . Shareholders endorsed the decision to acquire the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway and authorised the MR to acquire the moribund Brill Tramway , which connected with the A & BR at Quainton Road station , but blocked the expensive extension beyond Chesham , as well as Watkin 's proposed extension to Moreton Pinkney to the north . ( Watkin 's Manchester , Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway was refused consent at the time to build south to connect with the MR at Moreton Pinkney , which would have rendered the Moreton Pinkney branch an inevitably loss @-@ making branch line serving a very lightly populated area . Watkin was determined to build this section as a vital segment in his vision of a London – Manchester railway , and proposed that if the MR would not build this section , the Manchester , Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway would build the line themselves and lease it to the MR. The MR board refused to have anything to do with the scheme . Moreton Pinkney was eventually served by Watkin 's railway network in 1899 as Culworth railway station on the Great Central Railway . ) 
