 Jones died on 14 April 1909, surviving to see the railway network in the Aylesbury Vale reach its greatest extent.In 1893 another of Edward Watkin's railways, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, had been authorised to build a new line, from its existing station at Annesley in Nottinghamshire, south to Quainton Road.Watkin had intended to run services from Manchester and Sheffield via Quainton Road and along the Metropolitan Railway to the MR's station at Baker Street.