 The Duke of Buckingham built a short horse @-@ drawn tramway to transport goods between his estates at Wotton and a terminus adjacent to the station . He extended it soon afterwards to provide a passenger service to the town of Brill , & the tramway was converted to locomotive operation , known as the Brill Tramway . All goods to and from the Brill Tramway passed through Quainton Road , making it relatively heavily used despite its geographical isolation , and traffic increased further when construction began on Ferdinand de Rothschild 's mansion of Waddesdon Manor . The plan of extending the Brill Tramway to Oxford , which would have made Quainton Road a major junction station , was abandoned . Instead , the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway and the Brill Tramway were absorbed by London 's Metropolitan Railway ( MR ) , which already operated the line from Aylesbury to London . The MR rebuilt Quainton Road and re @-@ sited it to a more convenient location , allowing through running between the Brill Tramway and the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway . When the Great Central Railway ( GCR ) from the north of England opened , Quainton Road became a significant junction at which trains from four directions met , and by far the busiest of the MR 's rural stations . 
